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"The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won. In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women's rights. And yet that year, an all-female militia faced off against ISIS in a little town few had ever heard of. The Islamic State by then had swept across vast swaths of the country, taking town after town and spreading terror as the civil war burned all around it. From that unlikely showdown in the town of Kobani emerged a fighting force that would wage war against ISIS across northern Syriaas partner of the United States. In the process, these women would spread their own political vision, determined to make women's equality a reality by fighting--house by house, street by street, town by town--the men who bought and sold women . . . tells the story of the women of the Kurdish militia that improbably became part of the world's best hope for stopping ISIS in Syria"--Adapted from publisher description.

Forced to leave his home in war-torn Syria, thirteen-year-old Ghalib makes an arduous journey with his family to a refugee camp in Turkey. Includes glossary.

This volume traces the entire conflict from Saddam Hussein's rise to power, decades before the war started, to the war's lingering effects today.

Tells the story of author Azad Cudi, a journalist from Kurdistan who volunteered as a sniper in the fight against ISIS.

Forced to leave his home in war-torn Syria, thirteen-year-old Ghalib makes an arduous journey with his family to a refugee camp in Turkey. Includes glossary.

Jamila and Pembe are twins, born in the 1940s near the border of Turkey and Syria. Jamila grows up to become a midwife, feared and respected for her powers of healing and apparent psychic ability. Pembe follows a different path, marrying Adem and moving to London to raise their children. Adem becomes bitter and frustrated with English life, leaving his elder son Iskender in charge of the household. Pembe begins spending time with another man, and Iskender will have to become a man and learn what it means to love, at any cost.

Examines the economic and political issues facing the Kurdish people today.

The author presents the true story of his friend Ahmad Shawkat, who served as his translator during the early part of the Iraqi War and who was murdered for his anti-Saddam writings.

Recounts the true story of Joanna al-Askari, a young girl in Saddam Hussein's Iraq who fell in love with a Kurdish freedom fighter and joined the battle for Kurdish independence.

Attempts to create a national archive for the Kurds through a collection of photographs, documents, articles, memoirs, and other materials that together chronicle the history of the people who have been without a country since Kurdistan was eliminated at the end of World War I.