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NIÑA CASADA, MADRE DE SIETE HIJO, REFUGIADA Y, HOY, MUJER INDEPENDIENTE
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RAPE AS A WEAPON OF WAR - QUIET, CHEAP, AND SCARILY EFFICIENT A few months after Sinjar was retaken from IS group, the Kurdish photojournalist Seivan Salim met several young Yazidi girls in a refugee camp. The girls had fled from IS captivity and told stories of rape, violence and slavery. |
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OVER MY EYES: STORIES OF IRAQ Beyond a digital map of displacement that describes the battles of Fallujah then Mosul, the veiled portraits of Yazidi women are entrancing. They demand your attention. In front of the series, Escaped by Seivan M. Salim, museum spectators read stories of women who were raped, kidnapped, tortured, and sold as slaves. It is the most powerful piece both emotionally and aesthetically. |
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PICTURE PURR-FECT: RARE GLIMPS INTO FLUFFY FRIENDSHIPS IN NORTH IRAQ Iraqi Kurdistan is a region with a long history of war and conflict. In such a context animal rights are often neglected or forgotten. |
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THE WOMEN WHO ESCAPED SLAVERY AT THE HANDS OF ISIS These women escaped the hands of ISIS. Now they tell their powerful stories to photographer Seivan Salim. |
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THE YAZIDI WOMEN WHO ESCAPED ISIS They are the survivors, these young women. Their fathers and brothers have been killed, and in many cases the older women in their families were taken away. The zealots of the so-called Islamic State do not recognize their Yazidi religion, and took the girls to be slaves. ...Think on that a moment: "slaves." |
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OF REFUGEES AND THE PHOTOGRAPH Photographs of young Iraqi Yazidi women who were enslaved by ISIS and taken to Syria, published alongside lengthy texts that recount their stories, underline a particularly savage migration. The women are shown in white bridal dresses to restore a sense of purity, while their faces are intentionally obscured by veils. Seivan M. Salim, a female photographer made the images and conducted the painful interviews. |
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DRESSED IN TRADITIONAL WEDDING GOWNS, YEZIDI SEX SLAVES RELIVE THEIR TORTURE BY ISIS More than 5,000 Yazidi women were captured and enslaved by ISIS forces when the militant Islamist terrorists attacked the city of Sinjar, northern Iraq in August 2014. The women, some just teenagers, were forced to watch ISIS militants murder their families before they were sold into sexual slavery. While many remain in the evil clutches of ISIS, some have managed to escape to relay horrific tales of abuse, rape, slavery and brutal torture. In some cases, the young women returned home carrying the unborn children of their captors. Seivan Salim, an Iraqi female photographer, tracked down some of the women who managed to escape. She has portrayed them wearing the traditional white Yazidi wedding dress – a symbol for purity. Each woman tells her story in her own words. |
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SARA, 14, WEEPS FOR INNOCENCE STOLEN BY ISIS EVERY night Sarah wakes screaming in a cold sweat from a recurring nightmare in which her hands and legs are bound by an Isis rapist about to force himself on her. |
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GUARDATECI ASCOLTATECI: NOI SIAMO STATE SCHIAVE DELL'ISIS Dopo aver travolto il nemico, l'Isis si è comportato da conquistatore brutale: s'è impadronito di madri e figlie, trasformandole in schiave. Un destino feroce soprattutto per i seguaci della religione yazidi, comunità di etnia curda ma residente in Iraq indifesa davanti alle scorrerie dei mujaheddin islamici. |
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SLAVES OF THE CALIPHATE The kidnapping, rape and murder of the Yazidi women of Iraq drew the world's attention to the brutality of Isis. Marian Pearl is now working with the women as they tell their chilling stories. Some of those who managed to escape were photographed in traditional dress and interviewed by Seivan M Salim. |
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