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'Strangers in their own land': Iraqi Yazidis and their plight, 7 years on from genocide

  • Written by Houman Oliaei, PhD Candidate, Brandeis University
'Strangers in their own land': Iraqi Yazidis and their plight, 7 years on from genocideTens of thousands of members of Iraq's Yazidi religious minority are now living in shelters and camps.AP Photo/Seivan Salim

Each year in the second week of December, Iraqi Yazidis, an ethnoreligious minority in northern Iraq, celebrate Rojiet Ezi, a festival that follows three days of fasting. During my ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in...

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