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Bravery in the face of the Daesh death cult
A destroyed part of Raqqa
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The Beekeeper of Sinjar
by Dunya Mikhail
(Serpent's Tail, £10.99)
AN ACCOUNT of lives destroyed and saved amid the chaos of northern Iraq and Syria, Dunya Mikhail's The Beekeeper of Sinjar has echoes of Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s Ark.
In his work of creative non-fiction, the eponymous beekeeper Abdullah Sherem risks his life daily to rescue the Yazidi women of northern Iraq who are kidnapped, subjugated and enslaved by Daesh.
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