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Shadow on the mountain : a Yazidi memoir of terror, resistance, and hope / by Jeffrey, Shaker,author.(CARDINAL)827837; Holstein, Katharine,author.(CARDINAL)413181;
Prologue: The invasion -- The spring Baghdad fell -- After the torchlight -- The cruelest month -- Sergeant White -- Mosul -- A farewell to angels -- Riding the surge -- The fortress -- General Petraeus -- Left behind -- Dil-Mir -- The Islamic state comes home -- Blind mice -- The invasion -- Shadow on the mountain - Taken -- The situation rock -- Exodus -- The smuggler's route -- Nadia and the warehouse of souls -- Infiltrating ISIS -- The slave market -- Saved by mosquitos -- Hunted -- Through the perilous fight -- All the faithful -- Epilogue: Überleben.Recounts the story of Shaker Jeffrey, a young Yazidi interpreter for the US military in Iraq, and what happened after ISIS sentenced the Yazidi people to extermination. The Yazidis fled to Mount Shingal, where they had no food and no water. Shaker went behind enemy lines, relaying their precise locations to CENTCOM in Washington and even infiltrating their ranks to rescue the taken; but he would come to risk everything in the search for his beloved. Soon, he established a cross-border, underground rescue network that would save the lives of thousands of civilians, all while feeding intelligence to the US military--and landing him at the top of ISIS's execution list.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Jeffrey, Shaker.; Yezidis; Yezidis; IS (Organization);
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 9
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The girl who escaped ISIS : this is my story / by Khalaf, Farida,author.(CARDINAL)413947; Hoffmann, Andrea Claudia,author.(CARDINAL)412838; Bulloch, Jamie,translator.(CARDINAL)422863;
Our World As It Once Was -- One Final Wonderful Summer -- The Catastrophe -- The Slave Market in Raqqa -- In the Dark Room -- With the "Beasts" -- In the Military Camp -- The Road Out of Hell -- No Home, Not Anywhere."A rare and riveting first-hand account of the terror and torture inflicted by ISIS on young Iraqi Yazidi women, and an inspiring personal story of bravery and resilience in the face of unspeakable horrors. In the early summer of 2014, Farida Khalaf was a typical Yazidi teenager living with her parents and three brothers in her village in the mountains of Northern Iraq. In one horrific day, she lost everything: ISIS invaded her village, destroyed her family, and sold her into sexual slavery. The Girl Who Escaped ISIS is her incredible account of captivity and describes how she defied the odds and escaped a life of torture, in order to share her story with the world. Devastating and inspiring, this is an astonishing, intimate account of courage and hope in the face of appalling violence"--HL720LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Khalaf, Farida.; IS (Organization); ISIS (Organization); Yezidi women; Refugees; Yezidi women; Yezidi women; Yezidis; Terrorism; Yezidi women; Women and war; Slavery; Enslaved women;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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Escaping ISIS [videorecording] / by Watts, Edward(Television producer and director),film director.; PBS Distribution (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)309769;
The gripping, first-hand accounts of women who escaped the brutal reign of ISIS. These women and children are Yazidis, a religious minority that have been targeted by ISIS for particularly brutal treatment, as ISIS tries to impose upon them what it claims is a pure version of Islam.Rating: TV14; for graphic imagery and descriptions of violence.DVD, widescreen presentation; Stereo.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; IS (Organization); Escapes.; Women; Women; Yezidis.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The girl who escaped ISIS [large print] : this is my story / by Khalaf, Farida,author.(CARDINAL)413947; Hoffmann, Andrea Claudia,author.(CARDINAL)412838; Bulloch, Jamie,translator.(CARDINAL)422863;
Subjects: Large print books.; Autobiographies.; Khalaf, Farida.; IS (Organization); Yezidi women;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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The terrorist factory [sound recording] / by Desbois, Patrick,author.(CARDINAL)555366; Nastasie, Costel,author.(CARDINAL)415746; De Vries, David,1958-narrator.(CARDINAL)563630; Logan, Lara,writer of foreword.;
Performed by David de Vries.The massacre of the Yazidi people by ISIS was nothing less than genocide. In refugee camps in Iraqi Kurdistan, the authors brought a skilled team to interview more than a hundred ISIS survivors and document what they experienced and saw. These former slaves observed their torturers and know from the inside the secret facilities that ISIS has kept hidden from the world. What their testimony reveals is an organization whose ambition is power, regardless of their claim to be "soldiers of God." Their fighters are paid with sex, money, and the power of life and death over captives. Their promised paradise is here and now, not after death. Men who didn't swear allegiance were executed. Women became slaves for sex or reproduction, and their offspring may still serve the cause. In mobile training camps, the captured children were drugged, indoctrinated, and taught to shoot Kalashnikovs, plant explosives, and handle suicide vests. They are the intended products of the terrorist factory. In this taut, disturbing account, the authors document a utilitarian genocide that still holds an implicit threat to other counties, including those in the West.
Subjects: IS (Organization).; Yezidis; Genocide;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Disquiet / by Livaneli, Zülfü,1946-author.(CARDINAL)433893; Freely, Brendan,1959-translator.(CARDINAL)801099;
"From the internationally bestselling author of Serenade for Nadia, a powerful story of love and faith amidst the atrocities committed by ISIS against the Yazidi people. Disquiet transports the reader to the contemporary Middle East through the stories of Meleknaz, a Yazidi Syrian refugee, and Hussein, a young man from the Turkish city of Mardin near the Syrian border. Passionate about helping others, Hussein begins visiting a refugee camp to tend to the thousands of poor and sick streaming into Turkey, fleeing ISIS. There, he falls in love with Meleknaz-whom his disapproving family will call "the devil" who seduced him-and their relationship sets further tragedy in motion. A nuanced meditation on the nature of being human and an empathetic, probing look at the past and present of these Mesopotamian lands, Disquiet gives voice to the peoples, faiths, histories, and stories that have swept through this region over centuries"--
Subjects: Novels.; IS (Organization); Yezidis;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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On her shoulders [videorecording] / by Bombach, Alexandria,film director,director of photography,editor.; Clooney, Amal,on-screen participant.(CARDINAL)788929; Ismael, Murad,on-screen participant.; Jonsson, Patrick,composer.; Murad, Nadia,on-screen participant.(CARDINAL)349939; Pan, Ki-mun,1944-on-screen participant.; Oscilloscope Pictures,publisher.(CARDINAL)348523;
Director of photography, editor, Alexandria Bombach ; music, Patrick Jonsson.Murad Ismael, Nadia Murad, Amal Clooney, Ki-Moon Ban."At only twenty-three years old, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad's life is a dizzying array of important undertakings, from giving testimony before the U.N. Security Council to visiting refugee camps to soul-bearing media interviews, emotionally draining speeches and an endless succession of one-on-one meetings with top government officials."--Container.DVD, widescreen (1.78:1); 5.1 surround & stereo. ; region 0, NTSC.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Murad, Nadia.; Human rights workers; Women and war; Yezidis;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The beekeeper : rescuing the stolen women of Iraq / by Mīkhāʼīl, Dunyā,1965-author,translator,interviewer.(CARDINAL)537283; Weiss, Max,1977-(CARDINAL)500180;
"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 repeatedly sold, raped, 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 powerful work of nonfiction offers a counterpoint to Daesh's genocidal extremism: hope, as ordinary people risk their lives to save those of others."-- ǂc Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; IS (Organization); Abduction; Genocide; Women; Yezidis; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The bird tattoo : a novel / by Mīkhāʼīl, Dunyā,1965-author.(CARDINAL)537283;
Helen is a young Yazidi woman, living with her family in a mountain village in Sinjar, northern Iraq. One day she finds a local bird caught in a trap, and frees it, just as the trapper, Elias, returns. At first angry, he soon sees the error of his ways and vows never to keep a bird captive again. Helen and Elias fall deeply in love, marry and start a family in Sinjar. The village has seemed to stand apart from time, protected by the mountains and too small to attract much political notice. But their happy existence is suddenly shattered when Elias, a journalist, goes missing. A brutal organization is sweeping over the land, infiltrating even the remotest corners, its members cloaking their violence in religious devotion. Helen's search for her husband results in her own captivity and enslavement. She eventually escapes her captors and is reunited with some of her family. But her life is forever changed. Elias remains missing and her sons, now young recruits to the organization, are like strangers. Will she find harmony and happiness again?
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Epic fiction.; Yezidi women; Families; Religious militants; Arabic fiction.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Tears of gold : portraits of Yazidi, Rohingya, and Nigerian women / by Thomas, Hannah Rose,author,artist.(CARDINAL)889165;
Includes bibliographical references."A celebrated young British artist uses her gift to convey the dignity and resilience of women survivors of violence in forgotten corners of the world"--
Subjects: Portraits.; Thomas, Hannah Rose; Abused women; Women, Rohingya; Women; Yezidi women; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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