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Author Tax, Meredith, author.

Title A road unforeseen : women fight the Islamic State / Meredith Tax ; photographs by Joey L.

Publication Info. New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2016.

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Location Call No. Status
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  956.91 TAX    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  320 TAX    Check Shelf
Description 335 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-319) and index.
Contents A road unforeseen -- The Kurds -- Separated at birth -- Insurrection and genocide -- The people take up the struggle -- Kurdish women rising -- Democratic autonomy in Turkey and Syria -- The battle of Kobane and its backlash -- The birth of Daesh -- Daesh vs. Kobane -- War and peace in Turkey -- Some questions remain.
Summary Recounts the history of the Syrian Rojava Kurds, a democratic secular society whose all-women militia was instrumental in the mountaintop rescue of tens of thousands of civilians besieged by the Islamic State in Iraq.
Subject Militia movements -- Syria.
Women soldiers -- Syria.
IS (Organization)
Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011-
Militia movements. (OCoLC)fst01021611
Women soldiers. (OCoLC)fst01178559
IS (Organization) (OCoLC)fst01914325
Added Author L., Joey (Lawrence), photographer.
ISBN 9781942658108 (paperback)
1942658109 (paperback)
9781942658115 (ebook)
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