The beekeeper
Subtitle: rescuing the stolen women of Iraq
By: Dunya Mikhail ; translated from the Arabic by Dunya Mikhail and Max Weiss
Contributors: Weiss, Max, 1977- translator
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780811226127
Subjects: IS (Organization); Crimes against; Abduction; Genocide; Yezidis; Women
Work titles: Fī sūq al-sabāyā .
Description: "Since 2014, Daesh (ISIS) has been brutalizing the Yazidi people of northern Iraq: sowing destruction, killing those who won't convert to Islam, and enslaving young girls and women. The Beekeeper, by the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail, tells the harrowing stories of several women who managed to escape the clutches of Daesh. Mikhail extensively interviews these women--who've lost their families and loved ones, who've been repeatedly sold, raped, psychologically tortured, and forced to manufacture chemical weapons--and as their tales unfold, an unlikely hero emerges: a beekeeper, who uses his knowledge of the local terrain, along with a wide network of transporters, helpers, and former cigarette smugglers, to bring these women, one by one, through the war-torn landscapes of Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, back into safety. In the face of inhuman suffering, this powerful work of nonfiction offers a counterpoint to Daesh's genocidal extremism: hope, as ordinary people risk their lives to save those of others"--
Notes: "Originally published in Arabic as Fi Suq al-sabaya by Al Mutawassit"--Title-page verso.

First published as a New Directions paperback original in 2018.

Translated from the Arabic.
Table of contents: title: N; title: The bee kingdom; title: In the girls' market; title: Through the eye of a needle; title: Five tricks for escaping Daesh; title: In Daesh's camp; title: Exodus; title: My grandmother's grave; title: The chirp; title: One step closer, two steps, three; title: Narjis, Narjis; title: The infidels; title: Sinjar : the beautiful side; title: The spring.