#yazidi

[weepingfireflies]

People & countries mentioned in the thread:

DR Congo - M23, Cobalt

Darfur, Sudan - International Criminal Court, CNN, BBC (Overview); Twitter Explanation on Sudan

Tigray - Human Rights Watch (Ethnic Cleansing Report)

the Sámi people - IWGIA, Euronews

Hawai'i - IWGIA

Syria - Amnesty International

Kashmir- Amnesty Summary (PDF), Wikipedia (Jammu and Kashmir), Human Rights Watch (2022)

Iran - Human Rights Watch, Morality Police (Mahsa/Jina Amini - Al Jazeera, Wikipedia)

Uyghurs - Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) Q&A, Wikipedia, Al Jazeera, UN Report

Tibetans - SaveTibet.org, United Nations

Yazidi people - Wikipedia, United Nations

West Papua - Free West Papua, Genocide Watch

Yemen - Human Rights Watch (Saudi border guards kill migrants), Carrd

Sri Lanka (Tamils) - Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch

Afghans in Pakistan - Al Jazeera, NPR

Ongoing Edits: more from the notes / me

Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh/Azerbaijan (Artsakh) - Global Conflict Tracker ("Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict"), Council on Foreign Relations, Human Rights Watch (Azerbaijan overview), Armenian Food Bank

Baháʼís in Iran - Bahá'í International Community, Amnesty, Wikipedia, Minority Rights Group International

Kafala System in the Middle East - Council on Foreign Relations, Migrant Rights

Rohingya - Human Rights Watch, UNHCR, Al Jazeera, UNICEF

Montagnards (Vietnam Highlands) - World Without Genocide, Montagnard Human Rights Organization (MHRO), VOA News

Ukraine - Human Rights Watch (April 2022), Support Ukraine Now (SUN), Ukraine Website, Schools & Education (HRW), Dnieper River advancement (Nov. 15, 2023 - Ap News)

Reblogs with Links / From Others

Indigenous Ppl of Canada, Cambodia, Mexico, Colombia

Libya

Armenia Reblog 1, Armenia Reblog 2

Armenia, Ukraine, Central African Republic, Indigenous Americans, Black ppl (US)

Rohingya (Myanmar)

More Hawai'i Links from @sageisnazty - Ka Lahui Hawaii, Nation of Hawai'i on Soverignty, Rejected Apology Resolution

From @rodeodeparis: Assyrian Policy Institute, Free Yezidi

From @is-this-a-cool-url: North American Manipur Tribal Association (NAMTA)

From @dougielombax & compiled by @azhdakha: Assyrians & Yazidis

West Sahara conflict

Last Updated: Feb. 19th, 2024 (If I missed smth before this, feel free to @ me to add it)

#resources #important #congo #sudan #tigray #sámi #hawai'i #syria #kashmir #iran #uyghurs #china #tibetans #yazidi #west papua #yemen #sri lanka #afghans in pakistan #pakistan #human rights #palestine #twitter #lmk if there's a better reource or I linked smth wrong. I am very tired #my posts #genocide #social justice #nagorno karabakh #Bahá'í #kafala system #qatar

[folkfashion]

Yazidi girl, Iraq, by Claire Thomas

#yazidi #iraq #asia #west asia #folk clothing #traditional clothing #traditional fashion #cultural clothing

[leroibobo]

the sinjar mountains in northwestern iraq are an important place for the yazidi religion, in which god created the mountains with one mausoleum on each of their peaks so they would remain stable. historically, yazidi most likely fled to the mountains around the 13th century, as they faced massacre from atabeg badr al-din lu'lu' of mosul.

these mausoleums house the bodies of several important yazidi figures who lived in the 12th-14th centuries. unfortunately, several were destroyed by isis in the 2010s, but several others still remain.

#iraq #architecture #interior #worship #yazidi #religious tombs #my posts #yazidi 🤝 assyrians 🤝 ''kurdish'' jews ethnoreligious minorities living in the mountains for safety and tactical advantage #also i'm always amazed at how much yazidi architecture reminds me of armenian churches #certified indo-european moment

[dailyhistoryposts]

On This Day In History

August 3rd, 2014: ISIL (also known as ISIS, Da'esh, or the Islamic State) begins a genocide of the Yazidi people in Iraq.

The Yazidi people are ethnic Kurds, from Kurdistan, who also follow the Yazidi religion. Yazidism is a monotheistic, non-Abrahamic religion.

#history #world history #kurdistan #yazidi #yezidi #isil #isis #genocide #ethnocide #religion

[safije]

A Yazidi girl fleeing ISIS, Iraq-Syrian border 2014.

Yazidis are a Kurdish ethnoreligious minority in Iraq. They believe God created the world but entrusted the Peacock Angel Tawûsî Melek to have power over it. When God made the race of man, he commanded all angels to bow to Adam but the only one who disobeyed was Tawûsî Melek.

"How can I submit to another being! I am from your illumination while Adam is made of dust"

This story is similar to the one of Iblis (aka Lucifer or Satan) in the Quran, but unlike Iblis, Yazidis believe Tawûsî Melek to be a source of good not evil.

#Yazidi #Kurdish #Syria #Iraq #Ethnology #Religion #West Asia #photojournalism #kürtler #Kurd #Kurdistan #Photography #Eyes

[semaamagokyuzuolmayan]

Çok yorgunum. Aslında tamamıyla psikolojik. Yemek bile yemek gelmiyor içimden. Hayatımın merkezinde sanki bir kara delik misali bı sıkıntı var, geçmiyor. Ağlıyorum. Çoğu zaman, kaynoluyorum kendi içimde. Bıktım belki de. Ne bileyim. Geliyorlar arada bana bi öyle. Ne yapsam geçer bilmiyorum. Ruhumun kanadı kırık bir kuş misali çırpınışlarını duyar mı başkaları?

#semaamagökyüzüolmayan #semamagokyuzuolmayan #books #i love you #sevgilim #post #love #blog post #text post #long post #my post #books & libraries #yazim yanlisi #duvar yazilari #yazilarim #yazidi #duvar yazısı #yaz��larım #edebi yazılar #anlamlı yazılar #güzel yazılar #benim yazım #yazı

[dougielombax]

Fucking hell.

Poor buggers.

The Iraqi govt is doing precisely nothing for these people (Yazidis (also Assyrians))

They don’t give a shit!

Reblog the shit out of this.

#dougie rambles #vent post #political crap #mesopotamia #iraq #middle east #Asia #assyria #bethnahrin #nineveh #yazidi #yazidis #yezidi #exhumation #mass graves #fuck isis #terorism #war crimes #genocide #reblog this #reblog the shit out of this #indigenous #indigenous people #Yazda

[vintagesouthkavkaz]

Ismail-Bek, spiritual leader of the Yazidis of Georgia, 1909.

#georgia #yazidi #kurdish #sakartvelo

[ya-world-challenge]

Book Review: Yazidi! graphic novel (🇮🇶 Iraq)

[image 1: book cover: a brown-skinned, brown-haired girl age 7-10 walks along a desert road where trucks with armed men and ISIL flags pass. She looks back with fear at the approaching shadow of a man with a rifle; image 2: map showing Iraq; image 3: a Yazidi temple in Sreshka, Iraq - a tan brick structure with a conical dome is surrounded by a stone wall with intricate art.]

Yazidi!

Author: Aurélien Ducoudray; Illustrator: Mini Ludvin

YA World Challenge book for 🇮🇶 Iraq

Review

Yazidi! tells the story of Zéré, a young girl in the Kurdish area of Iraq. She and her family are followers of an ancient faith, who for centuries have been persecuted by various groups for their beliefs.

The story is set against the backdrop of ISIL's invasions of the region in 2014, and their genocide against the Yazidi people. The graphic novel declines to show the most horrific parts of ISIL's terror on-page. Rather, it can be felt through the fear in people's eyes, the relatives who never return, the terror of women and children who wait to be sold as slaves. It also doesn't give us a documentary-like overview, but rather drops us right into the world.

The art is beautiful and features soft lines and subtle colors, the big-eyed characters reflecting the innocence with which Zéré and her sister and cousins see the world. Smartphones, tween crushes, and loving girl-dads put the story firmly in our time with real, relatable people, unsettling against the barbarism of the terrorists. Throughout the story and despite the horror and betrayals, Zéré never loses her determination - a mirror of the sad reality that the Yazidi people have had to face.

Definitely pick this up for the beautiful art and the education.

Other reps: #yazidism (faith)

Genres: #war #current events #family

★  ★  ★  ★  ★   5 stars

#book review #yazidi #iraq #ya world challenge #booklr #bookblr #graphic novels #other faiths #war #survival #family #current events #middle east

[the-land-of-women]

#radfem safe #yazidi #Islamic state #slavery #iraq #rape tw

[swanasource]

In 2014, this week's 'At Your Service' guest, Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad, was a young woman of 21, when at the height of the ISIS caliphate in Northern Iraq, ISIS surrounded her Yazidi community in the Sinjar region. Her brothers and mother were killed in a mass slaughter. Nadia and her sisters were abducted into sexual slavery. After she managed a remarkable and daring escape, she channeled her trauma to incredible effect, today advocating for survivors of genocide and sexual violence. She tells her story on this week's episode, joined by her legal counsel, barrister Amal Clooney.

Trigger warning: the material in this episode is powerful and inspiring, but it can also be disturbing and quite hard to hear. If you are sensitive to content about physical and sexual violence, or if you believe that you might find the discussion to be triggering, this episode may not be right for you.

#nadia murad #yazidi #iraqi #amal clooney #amal alamuddin #lebanese

[dilanensemble]

Music lovers💚today is Bandcamp Friday, you can get your copy of recent record #MySunsetLand_Rojava from Bandcamp now!

ALL PROFITS OF THIS ALBUM WILL BE GOING TO SUPPORT "Yazidi Women" SUFFERING FROM "Yazidi Genocide"

#bandcamp #bandcampfriday #yazidigenocide #Yazidi Women #kurdishmusic #kamancha #instrumentalmusic #muzikakurdi #kurdistan #kamanche #recording #music album #artists on tumblr #yazidi

[folkfashion]

Yazidi girls, Iraq, by Claire Thomas

#yazidi #iraq #asia #west asia #folk clothing #traditional clothing #traditional fashion #cultural clothing

[tilting-at-windmills]

The 74th genocide the Yazidi lived through was in 2014. It was several more years before I arrived in Iraq to help in any small way I could. When I went, ISIS was still in Mosul, Trump was still president, we never knew what caused the smoke on the Syrian border as we drove by, and I was afraid I wouldn't make it back into the country when the Muslim ban was debated.

The village elders I met in Sinjar thought my American status meant I could raise attention internationally, but all I had were words no one would listen to.

Now I have an audience, a very, very small one, but I made a promise to use my words and I am doing so to the best of my ability. If you can help, please get in touch with me.

Their website is still in the development stages but I can connect you with the director or other useful figures. Longer story under the cut.

On August 3, 2014, ISIS attacked the Sinjar region (and I'm using Americanized names for familiarity's sake) in Nineveh, in northern Iraq. The few who were able to get warning from nearby villages piled into their cars and drove as far up the mountain as their cars could take them. One girl, I believe she was ten, was unable to hold onto the side of her father's truck. He could stop and save her, or continue and save the rest of their family. He continued on, and this organization is named Yuva in her memory. No one knows which horror she encountered.

The next day, the now-director of Yuva began attempting to distract the children from their terror, their hunger, their grief, by starting impromptu lessons. These continued as the Yazidi were trapped on the mountain, the young and old dying from thirst, starvation, and exposure to the elements. Some of the women who escaped finding their own ends as well.

But my friend, a truly incredible person, my own age, didn't stop when they returned to their decimated homes. Throughout the rebuilding process, which was still underway when I arrived several years later, he began formal classes in buildings that were not too damaged, like the school had been. He had volunteers I worked with, and focused those early days on teaching children English. He wanted them to be able to leave Iraq, something very, very few have been able to do.

He now runs Yuva, an international NGO funded by the UN, and they have built schools over the rubble, found qualified teachers, and are still going strong.

I'm not rich. I'm not famous. But I have a small number of people who listen to what I have to say, and which I've said in my chapbook (shout out to And My Blood Sang because you know I gotta), I will use my voice as much as I am able. I promised I would do that. And even if I hadn't, it's the least I can do.

These people who lost everything took me in with kindness and promised to protect me. They didn't shame my naivety, I think in part because they hoped that if one optimistic girl could come and try to change things, even if they had to save her at checkpoints and adjust to having a woman in the many councils of men, maybe there could be more. I hope there will be.

If you read this far, thank you. Being in Iraq changed my entire life, and I will not stop fighting for the forgotten.

#yuva #yazidi #iraq #ngo #islamic state #daesh #nineveh #duhola

[ker4unos]

CAUCASUS & IRANIAN RESOURCES

The Anthropological Masterlist is HERE.

The Caucasus, or Caucasia, is a region that serves as a barrier between East Europe and West Asia. 

ARMENIA ─ “The Armenian people are a West Asian people. They are native to the Armenian Highlands.” ─ Armenian Literature ─ Armenian History ─ Armenian Dictionary

AZERBAIJAN ─ “The Azerbaijani, or Azeri, people are a Caucasian and Turkic people. They are native to the Republic of Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran.” ─ Azerbaijani Culture ─ Azerbaijani Literature ─ Azerbaijani History

CIRCASSIA ─ “The Circassians, or the Adyghe, are a Caucasian people. They are native to Circassia in the North Caucasus.” ─ Circassian Information ─ Circassian Dictionary (Pages 229 - 430) ─ Circassian Re-Immigration to the Caucasus

GEORGIA ─ “The Georgians, or Kartvelians, are a Caucasian people. They are native to Georgia and the southern Caucasus.” ─ Georgian Culture (in German) ─ Georgian Mythology ─ Georgian Dictionary (in Georgian)

URARTU ─ “Urartu, or the Kingdom of Van, was a West Asian civilization that lived from 860 B.C.E. to 590 B.C.E. They lived in the Armenian Highlands.” ─ Urartian Information ─ Urartian History

VAINAKH ─ “The Vainakh, or Nakh, people are a Caucasian people. They are native to the North Caucasus.” ─ Ingush Information ─ Nakh Language

Iran is a West Asian country that is bordered by Iraq and Turkey. It is home to some of the oldest civilizations and most prolific cultures.

INDO-IRAN ─ “The Indo-Iranian, or Aryan, people are an Indo-European people. They are native to Western Asia and eastern Anatolia.” ─ Indo-Iranian Mythology ─ Indo-Iranian Dictionary

OSSETIA ─ “The Ossetians, or Ossetes, are an Iranian people. They are native to Ossetia.” ─ Ossetian Information ─ Ossetian Language (in Russian)

PERSIA ─ “The Persian people are an Iranian people. They are native to Iran.” ─ Iranian Culture ─ Persian Literature ─ Persian Dictionary

SCYTHIA ─ “The Scythian people were a nomadic Iranian people that lived from the 7th century B.C.E. to the 3rd century B.C.E. They lived in Ukraine and southern Russia.” ─ Scythians and the Achaemenid Empire ─ Origin of the Scythians Myth

YAZIDI ─ “Yazidism, or Sharfadin, is an Iranian religion. It originates in Kurdistan.” ─ Yazidi Information ─ Yazidi Culture ─ The Yazidi Black Book

ZOROASTRIANISM ─ “Zoroastrianism is a Persian religion. It originates in Iran.” ─ Zoroastrian Information ─ Zoroaster Information ─ Avesta

#resources #caucasus #iran #armenia #azerbaijan #circassia #georgia #urartu #vainakh #indo-iran #ossetia #permanent slave #scythia #yazidi #zoroastrianism

[mark-mpls]

Ahura Mazda emerged from eternity and created the cosmos from a tiny, extremely dense pearl.

The ancient Zoroastrian creation myth is possible the most coherent one in relation to modern understanding of the universe’s beginnings.

Ahura Mazda was the first monotheistic cosmic god. Now most people have forgotten him. That’s about to change…

What an entrance!

I think the red wings look more authoritative.

The persecuted Yazidis of Kurdistan welcome him to their villages for protection from ISIS, Syria, Iran, Iraq, and the Taliban.

But don’t forget, even cosmic deities need a day off and a little R&R…

Hit that cosmic beat boy!

I helped him with the new branding, too.

An AI didn’t create these images, I did. Using NightCafe Studio, SDXL and DALLE-E3.

#ai art #stable diffusion #aiart #sdxl #stablediffusion #ai artwork #ai art community #religion #spirituality #kurdistan #yazidi #zoroastrianism #iran #tehran #cyberpunk #galactic heroes #cosmic wisdom #fantasy #dalle3