Thomas Schmidinger is a Political Scientist and Cultural Anthropologist, Associate Professor and Program Director at the Department for Politics and International Relations at the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH). He also teaches at the University of Vienna and the University of Applied Sciences Oberösterreich in Linz. He is Secretary General of the Austrian Association for Kurdish studies. He is the author of Rojava, which received the Mezlum Bagok award.

Acknowledgements

Preface to the English edition

Timeline

Abbreviations

Maps

Introduction

Part I History of Sinjar and the genocide

1. The Sinjar Mountains as a natural space

2. Sinjar in ancient times

3. From the Islamic conquest to the periphery of the Ottoman Empire

4. The religion of the Êzîdî

5. Social order and religious office-holders of the Êzîdî

6. The tribal society in Sinjar

7. Sinjar in the late Ottoman Empire

8. The British occupation and protectorate

9. The Êzîdî in Iraq

10. Resentments against the Êzîdî

11. Ethno-confessional groups in the Sinjar region: Êzîdî, Christians, Jews and Muslims

12. Sinjar under the rule of the Ba'th Party

13. After the fall of Saddam Hussein: between Baghdad and Erbil

14. The massacre of 14 August 2007: the 73rd firman?

15. Encircled by jihadists

16. The IS genocide in August 2014

17. Genocide

18. The reintroduction of slavery and sexual violence

19. Struggle for liberation: regional conflicts in the smallest spaces

20. The life of the displaced

21. Regional conflicts: Sinjar in the crosshairs of Turkey and Iran

22. Marginalised and instrumentalised: is there a future for the Êzîdî in Iraq?

Part II Photographs

Part III Interviews

Notes

Bibliography

Index