Hundreds of families returned to Shingal seek permission to retun to IDP camps in Duhok due to instability and hard living conditions. Nineveh 2020: Ezidi…
Duhok, 2019 – School children on their way home at Mam-Rashan IDP Camp – photo: Ammar Azeez After escaping years of anguish in ISIS captivity,…
As part of the IDS-led Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID), we are working with religious minority communities in Iraq and Syria to…
The dagger ‘uncle’ Azeez tucks in his waistband has been in his possession for nearly half a century and has been in his family for…
With a long history of persecution, the Yezidis recently experienced a genocide at the hands of Daesh in Iraq. As well as systematically killing and…
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to take its huge and tragic toll on the world’s population, it is being felt hardest by the poorest and…
The majority of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Iraq come from Ezidi, Christian, Kaka’i and other religious minorities. Recently, these IDPs have been deprived of…
Heritage is commonly perceived as being about a passive preservation of the past, passed down from one generation to the next. In reality, however, heritage…
Heritage sites play a vital role in sustaining community identities as well as individuals’ personal wellbeing. In the Middle East, religious minorities have not only…
Daesh’s violent targeting of Iraq's religious minorities between 2011-2015 destroyed communities and shattered infrastructure. Now, the lives and livelihoods of religious minorities are once more…
Nineveh, two women are separating olives from olive branches of their olive garden in Bashiqa, eastern Mosul, 2013. Photo: Nasr Haji The yield from Ihsan’s…
Nineveh, Ezidi children are walking through a muddy road to school in Sinjar Mountain, 2019. Photo: Ibrahim Ezidi “I have been a lecturer for two…
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