The book idea came from my initial reporting on the topic for the Independent newspaper and their Sunday review magazine back when they still had a print edition. How did the idea for the book come about? But Otten, a Big Issue North contributor who moved from Manchester to Iraqi Kurdistan in 2013, also spoke to politicians, Kurdish fighters, the smugglers who rescued some of the women and other pivotal figures for a book that places this latest genocide against the Yezidis in the context of the hugely complex politics of the region. Subtitled Yezidi Women and the Islamic State, journalist Otten’s first book With Ash on Their Faces ( OR Books, £13 paperback, £10 ebook) is based on extensive, sensitive interviews with the women of the minority religious sect in northern Iraq who were abducted in 2014 by ISIS and enslaved.
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