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The Beekeeper: Saving the Stolen Women of Iraq

Name: The Beekeeper: Saving the Stolen Women of Iraq
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ISBN: 9780811226134

Mikhail, Dunya

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The true story of a beekeeper who risks his life to rescue enslaved women from Daesh Since 2014, Daesh (ISIS) has been brutalizing the Yazidi people of northern Iraq: sowing destruction, killing those who won't convert to Islam, and enslaving young girls and women. The Beekeeper, by the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail, tells the harrowing stories of several women who managed to escape the clutches of Daesh. Mikhail extensively interviews these women—who've lost their families and loved ones, who've been sexually abused, psychologically tortured, and forced to manufacture chemical weapons—and as their tales unfold, an unlikely hero emerges: a beekeeper, who uses his knowledge of the local terrain, along with a wide network of transporters, helpers, and former cigarette smugglers, to bring these women, one by one, through the war-torn landscapes of Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, back into safety. In the face of inhuman suffering, this...

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Year:

2022

Publisher:

New Directions

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

0811226131

ISBN 13:

9780811226134