Yazidi

In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story.

In The Beekeeper of Sinjar, the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail tells the harrowing stories of women from across Iraq who have managed to escape the clutches of ISIS. Since 2014, ISIS has been persecuting the Yazidi people, killing or enslaving those who won't convert to Islam. These women have lost their families and loved ones, along with everything they've ever known. Dunya Mikhail weaves together the women's tales of endurance and near-impossible escape with the story of her own exile and her dreams for the future of Iraq.

• Explains how the new Atlantis was rebuilt using ancient Lemurian construction techniques and how Poseidon was put in charge by nefarious Prince Caligastia
• Explores the rise of shamanism, the hidden history of Akhenaten, and the privileged role of the Yazidi people in the spiritual evolution of the planet
• Exposes how our planet is one of the worlds on which the rebel angels have been the accorded the privilege of a mortal incarnation

One year on from her first visit, Stacey Dooley returns to Iraq to seek justice for the young women whose lives have been changed forever by Isis. In a journey like never before, Stacey joins Shireen, a 23 year-old Yazidi woman who was held as a sex slave for over two years by Isis. Shireen managed to escape while enslaved in Mosul, but many Yazidi women like her haven’t, and remain in captivity. Shireen is going in search of justice - and she's taking Stacey with her. Shireen travels with Stacey back to Mosul, the self-declared capital of Isis in Iraq, to revisit the places where she was held captive.

10 giugno 2014. Con la presa di Mosul, e la successiva proclamazione dello Stato Islamico in Siria e Iraq, non solo si viene a creare una vera e propria enclave terroristica, ma ha inizio la distruzione sistematica e intenzionale della civiltà millenaria dell'antica Mesopotamia. Un drammatico atto di violenza iconoclastica che non ha paralleli nella storia moderna. Dentro la devastazione ci porta nel cuore di un'analisi approfondita e completa sulle cause ideologiche e politiche che hanno generato questo buco nero dell'umanità e della sua cultura più antica, attraverso un attacco deliberato all'arte e alle identità etniche e confessionali. In Siria, alle palesate, spettacolari distruzioni compiute dall'ISIS, si aggiungono, sommessamente, gli enormi danni causati dalle forze del regime siriano e dei suoi alleati a Palmira, Aleppo, Ebla e Apamea..