Publication: De Tijd In het belegerde Oost-Ghouta is een groot tekort aan medicijnen, elektriciteit en voedsel. Toch laat het Syrische regime slechts sporadisch noodhulp toe en bestookt het het gebied met luchtbombardementen. Honderden burgers dreigen te sterven als ze niet snel geëvacueerd worden. Toen Fayez…
Publication: De Groene Amsterdammer Nog altijd worden er jezidi’s bevrijd uit het afbrokkelende IS-kalifaat. De verkrachte vrouwen en meisjes worden in Noord-Irak liefdevol opgevangen door de gemeenschap. Maar een toekomst zien ze er niet. De zweetdruppels staan op ieders voorhoofd, behalve op dat van Jihan. Het…
Publicatie: Groene Amsterdammer Honderden jezidi-jongens werden door IS getraind om voor de terreurgroep te strijden of om zelfmoordaanslagen te plegen. Sommigen wisten te ontsnappen. Zij leven nu in opvangkampen in Noord-Irak, waar de hulp grotendeels ontbreekt. SNEAKERS, EEN T-SHIRT en een modern kapsel. Op het eerste…
Publication: Al-Monitor DAHUK, Iraqi Kurdistan — Majdal, a 14-year-old Yazidi teenager wearing a T-shirt, jeans and sneakers, looks like an ordinary boy but does not feel like one anymore. His childhood was destroyed when the Islamic State (IS) invaded his hometown Kocho in August 2014. Like other Yazidis, Majdal was separated from his mother…
Publication: Middle East Eye DUHOK, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Umm and Abu Ahmed could not have children of their own. So when the middle-aged Sunni couple from Mosul heard the Islamic State (IS) group was selling Yazidi orphans, they decided to take one in. For $500, they…
Publication: The New Arab MOSUL, Iraq- Mohammed was only 11 years old when he saw how two men were beheaded by Islamic State militants. It was at one of the many IS checkpoints in the city of Mosul, where Mohammed and his friends were hanging out. “The sword…
Publicatie: Groene Amsterdammer HIGHLIGHT: Het aantal kindhuwelijken onder Syrische vluchtelingen is door de oorlog enorm gestegen. Cultureel-religieuze tradities en economische malaise doen ouders besluiten hun dochters uit te huwelijken. Tientallen Syrische vrouwen drommen voor de afgebladderde deur van de Jordanian Women’s Union. In het vrouwencentrum in Al-Khaldeya,…
Publicatie: Trouw HIGHLIGHT: kindhuwelijken | In vluchtelingenkampen in Jordanië huwelijken Syrische ouders hun dochters uit. Uit armoede en uit traditie. Busra’s toekomstige echtgenoot zag haar voor het eerst toen ze van school naar huis liep door het stoffige vluchtelingenkamp. Zij was 14 en nog nooit…
Published: Al-Monitor ZAATARI, Jordan — Omaima Hoshan, 14, wasn’t really aware of early marriage until her best friend dropped out of school in the fifth grade. Omaima was very concerned. Her friend was an excellent student — the best in their class — and had always dreamed about…
Published: Al-Monitor IRBID, Jordan — After years of trying to get Mohammed into a public school, his mother Alaa had almost given up. Since the family fled from Syria to Jordan in 2012, Mohammed has received no formal education. Year after year, school directors refused…
Publication: Al Monitor AMSTERDAM — When Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a caliphate in June, he called on Muslims around the world to be a part of it. The invitation extended to preachers, engineers, judges, doctors and people with military and administrative experience, basically every Muslim who wanted to play…
Publication: Al-Monitor ERBIL, Iraq — Mohammed was 5 years old when August 16, 2015his little brother was shot dead before his eyes. This happened in June 2014 when Islamic State (IS) militants stormed the city of Mosul and took over large parts of northern Iraq. “IS…
Publication: Al-Monitor AMSTERDAM — For Aysha and Luca Opdam’s father, it is still hard to accept that his children, born and raised in the Netherlands, are now living in Syria. In a letter, he describes how his ex-wife radicalized after she devoted her life to Islam around six years…
Publication: Al-Monitor MAFRAQ, Jordan — Her first husband was a 46-year-old man from Saudi Arabia who already had two wives. Once every few months, he traveled to Jordan for business, and during these visits he would talk to Fatima’s aunt about marrying another woman. Her aunt told him she had…
Publication: Al-Monitor REYHANLI, Turkey- Children at a Syrian field hospital near the Turkish border accept the war as the new normal. Three weeks ago, 15-year-old Mohammed was a normal, healthy boy. Although he lived in a war-torn country, he played with his friends and bought…