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The Tears of Mount Sinjar
In 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) commence their attacks on the Kurdish Yazidi. So begins a series of endless nightmares for the Yazidi people. ISIS carries out massacres, rapes, and wholesale kidnapping. These crimes set the darkest fires to the life of Agrin and thousands of other people of Sinjar.
Inspired by true events, this is the story of the survival of the Yazidi people against almost impossible odds.
The Tears of Mount Sinjar is fiction inspired by real events. It is the story of Agrin, a young Kurdish Yezidi woman from the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, whose family and thousands of others were massacred in 2014 by ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria).
Yezidis are a minority ethnic people, numbering about one million, who believe in the Yezidi (or Yazidi) religion, one of the world's oldest belief systems. They believe in one God called Xwedê or Ezdan and their language is Kurdish-Kurmanji. Yezidis have endured centuries of persecution for their distinctive religious beliefs, initially by Arabs, later by Turks.
From August 2014, hundreds of Yezidi families were forced by ISIS to choose between death or conversion to Sunni Islam. Many fled to the Sinjar Mountains, but about 5,000 men and boys were mercilessly slaughtered and at least 10,000 women and children were enslaved and trafficked.
The Tears of Mount Sinjar is a novel built from first-hand accounts that transport the reader to the heart-breaking realities of the invasion that destroyed Agrin's family, among many. Her story brings to life the ways she and fellow Yezidis took revenge on ISIS before she sought asylum and freedom in Australia.
"…wonderful, powerful, heartbreakingly sad yet with hope for a better future…"
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I am Homeira Soufi…
…a Kurdish woman born and raised in a small mountainous village in Iran. As a little girl, I was known by others as the girl who wrote poems and was a good storyteller. On cold winter's nights, even my Granny would want me to tell them stories so she could enjoy the unexpected challenges and sometimes bizarre endings.
I started to write […] The Tears of Mount Sinjar; unaware that writing was going to be the most satisfying job I could have ever imagined doing; instead of people listening to me telling the stories, the joyful feeling of holding the reader's hands and walking them into the world that I see and live in, is inexpressible.
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