| The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq Contributor(s): Mikhail, Dunya (Author), Weiss, Max (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0811226123 ISBN-13: 9780811226127 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: March 2018 |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - Biography & Autobiography | Women - History | Middle East - Iraq |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" L (0.55 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Features: Illustrated, Price on Product |
| Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/15/2017 Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2018 Publishers Weekly 01/29/2018 Library Journal 02/15/2018 pg. 70 Shelf Awareness 04/13/2018 Foreword 02/26/2018 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Since 2014, Daesh (ISIS) has been brutalizing the Yazidi people of northern Iraq: sowing destruction, killing those who won't convert to Islam, and enslaving young girls and women. The Beekeeper, by the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail, tells the harrowing stories of several women who managed to escape the clutches of Daesh. Mikhail extensively interviews these women--who've lost their families and loved ones, who've been sexually abused, psychologically tortured, and forced to manufacture chemical weapons--and as their tales unfold, an unlikely hero emerges: a beekeeper, who uses his knowledge of the local terrain, along with a wide network of transporters, helpers, and former cigarette smugglers, to bring these women, one by one, through the war-torn landscapes of Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, back into safety. In the face of inhuman suffering, this powerful work of nonfiction offers a counterpoint to Daesh's genocidal extremism: hope, as ordinary people risk their own lives to save those of others. |
Contributor Bio(s): Weiss, Max: - Max Weiss is an Associate Professor of History and Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of In the Shadow of Sectarianism, and the translator of Samar Yazbek's A Woman in the Crossfire and Nihad Sirees's The Silence and the Roar.Mikhail, Dunya: - Dunya Mikhail was born in Baghdad, Iraq, and moved to the United States thirty years later in 1995. After graduating from the University of Baghdad, she worked as a journalist and translator for the Baghdad Observer. Facing censorship and interrogation, she left Iraq, first to Jordan and then to America, settling in Detroit. New Directions published her books The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq, The Iraqi Nights, Diary of A Wave Outside the Sea, and The War Works Hard--chosen as one the New York Public Library's Books to Remember in 2005--as well as her edited volume, 15 Iraqi Poets. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Knights Foundation grant, a Kresge Fellowship, and the United Nations Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing, and works as a special lecturer of Arabic at Oakland University in Michigan. |
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