The Beekeeper of Sinjar: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq by Dunya Mikhail

The Beekeeper of Sinjar: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq

Dunya Mikhail with Max Weiss

224 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

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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, ...

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sad 100%
emotional 94%
dark 76%
challenging 58%
tense 52%
informative 47%
reflective 47%
hopeful 17%
inspiring 5%

Pace

medium 53%
slow 26%
fast 20%

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