Idan Barir, a research fellow at the Forum for Regional Thinking and a translator for the Van Leer Institute’s Maktoob series of Arabic literature in Hebrew, tells the story of the Yazidis, an ethnic and religious minority in Iraqi Kurdistan who, in 2014, fell victim to an Islamic State rampage.

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