Title:
A road unforeseen : women fight the Islamic State / Meredith Tax ; photographs by Joey L.
Author:
Tax, Meredith, author.
L., Joey (Lawrence), photographer.
Publication Information:
New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2016.
Call Number:
DS98.6 .T39 2016
Abstract:
Recounts the history of the Syrian Rojava Kurds, a democratic secular society whose all-women militia was instrumental in the mountaintop rescue of tens of thousands of civilians besieged by the Islamic State in Iraq.
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ISBN:
9781942658108
Physical Description:
335 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
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Contents:
A road unforeseen -- The Kurds -- Separated at birth -- Insurrection and genocide -- The people take up the struggle -- Kurdish women rising -- Democratic autonomy in Turkey and Syria -- The battle of Kobane and its backlash -- The birth of Daesh -- Daesh vs. Kobane -- War and peace in Turkey -- Some questions remain.
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