Meredith Tax - Lonely war

The Lonely War tells the dramatic story of the Kurdish women of Rozsava. The Islamic State seemed invincible for a long time, but in the war-torn northern part of Syria, the Kurdish community won a significant victory over it, and women's militias played a particularly important role in rescuing tens of thousands of civilians besieged in Iraq. women and what lessons does their story carry? How do they differ from the Iraqi Kurds, how do they fight against the Islamic State, and how does Turkey relate to all this? The author tries to answer these questions by tracing the lives of a group of Kurdish feminist guerrillas. Sándor Jászberényi, who also visited the scene of the shocking events, wrote the foreword for the Hungarian edition of the book. MEREDITH TAX (1942 - ) is a writer and political activist who lives in New York. Founder of Women's WORLD, an organization fighting for freedom of speech. Co-founder of the American PEN Women's Committee and the International PEN Women Writers' Committee. He is currently the chairman of the international board of the Center for Secular Space. The non-profit organization's mission is to amplify secular voices, condemn fundamentalism and protect universal human rights.

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Knowledgeable
348 pages
Binding: cardboard
ISBN: 9789632786353
Author: Meredith Tax
Release year: 2021