The World Has Forgotten Us

Yezidi survivors speak out in this important history of persecution and genocide

Thomas Schmidinger is a Political Scientist and Cultural Anthropologist, Associate Professor and Program Director at the Department for Politics and International Relations at the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH). He also teaches at the University of Vienna and the University of Applied Sciences Oberösterreich in Linz. He is Secretary General of the Austrian Association for Kurdish studies. He is the author of Rojava, which received the Mezlum Bagok award.

Acknowledgements
Preface to the English edition
Timeline
Abbreviations
Maps
Introduction
Part I History of Sinjar and the genocide
1. The Sinjar Mountains as a natural space
2. Sinjar in ancient times
3. From the Islamic conquest to the periphery of the Ottoman Empire
4. The religion of the Êzîdî
5. Social order and religious office-holders of the Êzîdî
6. The tribal society in Sinjar
7. Sinjar in the late Ottoman Empire
8. The British occupation and protectorate
9. The Êzîdî in Iraq
10. Resentments against the Êzîdî
11. Ethno-confessional groups in the Sinjar region: Êzîdî, Christians, Jews and Muslims
12. Sinjar under the rule of the Ba'th Party
13. After the fall of Saddam Hussein: between Baghdad and Erbil
14. The massacre of 14 August 2007: the 73rd firman?
15. Encircled by jihadists
16. The IS genocide in August 2014
17. Genocide
18. The reintroduction of slavery and sexual violence
19. Struggle for liberation: regional conflicts in the smallest spaces
20. The life of the displaced
21. Regional conflicts: Sinjar in the crosshairs of Turkey and Iran
22. Marginalised and instrumentalised: is there a future for the Êzîdî in Iraq?
Part II Photographs
Part III Interviews
Notes
Bibliography
Index