After ISIS, former Yazidi sex slaves are caught between trauma and taboo
Safia, a Yazidi teenager from Iraq, was captured by the Islamic State, sold into sexual slavery, raped, tortured and made pregnant, leaving deep psychological scars. Her ability to come to terms with the trauma are thwarted by taboo, shame and her forced separation from her daughter.
Read MorePost-ISIS Mosul, pt 2: Home is where the hurt is
Despite the destruction, pain, trauma and dread for the future, Mosul’s tough and long-suffering residents are returning to the ruins of their devastated city.
Read MorePost-ISIS Mosul, pt 1: The final death of a city?
Its building turned to dust, its citizens traumatised and impoverished, Mosul may have been ‘liberated’ from ISIS but it has become a graveyard. Can this razed and devastated city ever be free again?
Read MoreMosul of my heart replaced by alien and destitute city
The Mosul I have always loved, whose sky was our protective shield, has been replaced by an alien city of death, destruction and destitution.
Read MoreThe occupational handicaps of being Palestinian
Living with disability is always a challenge but if you’re a Palestinian living under Israeli occupation you are doubly handicapped.
Read MoreYoung and futureless in Iraq under ISIS
Mosul’s youth are desperate, disillusioned and terrified because “ISIS will never let us have a future, we could die any second.”
Read MoreISIS’s war on women in Mosul
Before ISIS began targeting Iraq’s minorities and cultural heritage, it set to work veiling women in a new dark age, reversing decades of hard-won gains.
Read MoreISIS’s destruction of the past, present and future in Mosul
With ISIS’s destruction of the heritage of Mosul, it is no longer the “Pear of the North”. But it’s people will rise up and reclaim their ancient city.
Read MoreISIS and Mosul’s lost diversity
The Islamic State’s (ISIS) destruction of Mosul’s ethnic diversity is more heart-breaking than the erasure of its architectural and cultural heritage.
Read MoreThe ISIS disease in Mosul
For those who have refused to flee the Islamic State (ISIS), formerly close-knit Mosul has become a dangerous city robbed of its diversity and dignity.
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