Communalism and the state in Iraq: the Yazidi Kurds, c.1869–1940

Fuccaro, Nelida

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“…Psychiatric symptoms and mental disorders among refugees are recognized as an urgent problem ( 1 – 5 ), especially in the Yazidi population ( 6 , 7 ) after the severe attacks by the so-called “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” (ISIS) in July 2014 ( 8 , 9 ). Recently, it has been shown that about 43% of the victims of these attacks met the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), about 40% met the criteria for major depressive disorder (MD), and about 26% met the criteria for both disorders.…”

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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Related Disorders among Female Yazidi Refugees following Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Attacks—A Case Series and Mini-Review

2017

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Following the severe attacks by the so-called “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” on the Yazidi population, which started in summer 2014, the state government of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, funded a Special-Quota Project to bring 1,000 very ill or left-behind women and children who were being held hostage to 22 cities and towns in Baden-Württemberg to receive integrated care. Here, we report for the first time on the cases of four Yazidi women living in Ulm, Germany, focusing on the clinically observed and psychometrically assessed mental phenomena or disorders. Our primary aim was to explore what International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision diagnoses are present in this population. Although highly traumatized, these women were suffering primarily from adjustment disorder rather than posttraumatic stress disorder according to official classification systems. Despite their symptoms of depression and anxiety, the women’s responses to self-assessment questionnaires provided no evidence of compulsion, somatization, or eating disorders. The results suggest that further investigation of the individual-level effects of rape and torture, as well the historic, systemic, and collective effects, e.g., on families and societies, is required.

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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Related Disorders among Female Yazidi Refugees following Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Attacks—A Case Series and Mini-Review

2017

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“…Although the precise details and number of these earlier genocides are difficult to verify, there are records dating back at least as far as the mid-13th century, which tell of atrocities against the Yezidis at the hands of various forces -Arabs, Kurds, Persians and Ottomans. These include their forced conversion to Islam, massacres of those who resisted, the abduction of Yezidi women and the deliberate destruction and defacement of their religious shrines and monuments (Fuccaro, 1999a;Guest, 2010Guest, [1993: 134-140). In the early 20th century, the Yezidis actively resisted both colonial rule and integration into the newly formed Iraqi state, leading to renewed waves of persecution (Fuccaro, 1997(Fuccaro, , 1999b.…”

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The Islamic State’s destruction of Yezidi heritage: Responses, resilience and reconstruction after genocide

Isakhan

Shahab

2019

Journal of Social Archaeology

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After conquering large swathes of northern Iraq, the Islamic State undertook an aggressive genocidal campaign against the Yezidi people in which they not only executed and enslaved thousands of innocent civilians, but also damaged or destroyed several key Yezidi temples and shrines. Drawing on a small sample of in-depth semi-structured interviews with Yezidi men and women from two regions conquered by the Islamic State, this article documents the effect this wave of persecution has had on these Yezidi individuals. It finds that the attacks by the Islamic State on Yezidis and their heritage sites have caused considerable suffering among the community, in part because of their inability to practise their intangible religious rituals and customs. However, the Yezidi people have also demonstrated remarkable resistance and resilience to the Islamic State genocide in terms of returning to their ancient homelands, reconstructing their heritage sites and the re-emergence of their intangible religious heritage practices. The article concludes by noting that the new insights gleaned from these interviews are a step towards better understanding the relationship between tangible and intangible heritage in the wake of conflict, genocide and mass heritage destruction.

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Middle East

MacDonald

2012

The Wiley‐Blackwell Companion to Religion and Social Justice

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Communalism and the state in Iraq: the Yazidi Kurds, c.1869–1940

Cited by 9 publications

References 12 publications

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Related Disorders among Female Yazidi Refugees following Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Attacks—A Case Series and Mini-Review

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Related Disorders among Female Yazidi Refugees following Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Attacks—A Case Series and Mini-Review

The Islamic State’s destruction of Yezidi heritage: Responses, resilience and reconstruction after genocide

Middle East

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