It's wonderful that the young Yazidi women accomplished this after what they have been through.
Young Yazidi women shine as photographers
Date
June 4, 2016
Anna Martin
"We feel each other's suffering, and we know how it is": Khawla Shammo, now a photographer, fled her home in Mount Sinjar as Islamic State arrived. Photo: Screengrab
Sulaymaniyah, Iraq: The young women had never used a camera before fleeing their homes and the claws of Islamic State fighters. Now their images tell a story of Yazidi survival in exile.
Lucky enough to have escaped potential sex slavery, the group of female Yazidi students were glad to be alive when they arrived at a refugee camp in northern Iraq, but with little hope of continuing their studies.
A Yazidi refugee makes dough at a camp in northern Iraq. Photo: Khawla Shammo
Khawla Shammo is one of more than 400,000 Yazidis who fled their homes in Mount Sinjar in 2014, as the militants advanced and hundreds of men were executed and thousands of women and children enslaved.
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Shammo, 21, managed to escape to a refugee camp near Duhok in northern Iraq's Kurdistan region. After spending her first few months in the camp trying to finish her final year of studies with "no schools, no books, no teachers," she enrolled on a new course offered by the UN agency UNICEF.
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: 'We feel each other's suffering, and we know how it is' - Young Yazidi women shine as photographers
Young Yazidi women shine as photographers
Date
June 4, 2016
Anna Martin
"We feel each other's suffering, and we know how it is": Khawla Shammo, now a photographer, fled her home in Mount Sinjar as Islamic State arrived. Photo: Screengrab
Sulaymaniyah, Iraq: The young women had never used a camera before fleeing their homes and the claws of Islamic State fighters. Now their images tell a story of Yazidi survival in exile.
Lucky enough to have escaped potential sex slavery, the group of female Yazidi students were glad to be alive when they arrived at a refugee camp in northern Iraq, but with little hope of continuing their studies.
A Yazidi refugee makes dough at a camp in northern Iraq. Photo: Khawla Shammo
Khawla Shammo is one of more than 400,000 Yazidis who fled their homes in Mount Sinjar in 2014, as the militants advanced and hundreds of men were executed and thousands of women and children enslaved.
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Shammo, 21, managed to escape to a refugee camp near Duhok in northern Iraq's Kurdistan region. After spending her first few months in the camp trying to finish her final year of studies with "no schools, no books, no teachers," she enrolled on a new course offered by the UN agency UNICEF.
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: 'We feel each other's suffering, and we know how it is' - Young Yazidi women shine as photographers
