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Captives: Un apiculteur au secours des Yézidies

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La poétesse Dunya Mikhail, avec beaucoup d’humanité et une grande délicatesse, porte le témoignage des femmes Yézidies, de leurs enfants, de leurs frères et cousins, afin de redonner des noms, des visages et une voix aux victimes et aux survivants de l’un des épisodes les plus barbares, de ce début du XXIe siècle.

257 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 6, 2021

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Dunya Mikhail

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Dunya Mikhail is an Iraqi American poet and writer. She is the author of the poetry collections The War Works Hard, shortlisted for the International Griffon Poetry Prize, Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea (winner of the Arab American Book Award), The Iraqi Nights, winner of the Poetry Magazine Translation Award, and In Her Feminine Sign, chosen as one of the ten best poetry books of 2019 by The New York Public Library.

Her nonfiction book The Beekeeper was a finalist for the National Book Award, and her debut novel, The Bird Tattoo, was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

Mikhail is a laureate of the UNESCO Sharja Prize for Arab Culture and has received the UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing, as well as fellowships from the United States Artists, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Kresge Foundation.

She currently teaches Arabic and poetry at Oakland University in Michigan.

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December 27, 2022
Un livre remplit d'humanité, poignant, qui tisse les récits de survie et d'évasion de milliers de Yézidies, enlevées et retenues captives par les hommes de l'Etat Islamique. C'est notamment grâce à Abdallah Chrem, un héros, que ces récits ont pu être relatés par l'autrice. En effet, cet apiculteur a décidé de tout risquer pour organiser un réseau de passeur et mettre en sécurite ces jeunes femmes devenues esclaves.
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