From forced conversion to genocide: How Yazidis carry centuries of persecution into exile

Jul 18, 2026 7:33 pm | Jpost

A Yazidi woman holds a flame during the Charshama Sor Red New Year ceremony at the Lalish temple in Iraq in April. For a community repeatedly driven from its ancestral homes and subjected to forced conversions, religious tradition has become an enduring expression of survival and continuity. (photo credit: Gailan Haji/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS: The Islamic interpretation of the Yazidi faith is what members of ISIS used to justify the enslavement of over 6,000 women and children and the murder of more than 5,000 people.
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