Idan Barir is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv University. The title of his Master's thesis is, "This is Our Story: The Yezidi Cultural Movement and the Processes of a Collective Identity Construction among the Yezidis in Kurdistan and the Diaspora."
[1] Mohammed A. Salih and Wladimir van Wilgenburg, "Iraqi Yazidis: 'If We Move They Will Kill Us'," Aljazeera, August 5, 2014.
[2] Ali Sedo Rasho, “ʿAn Buʾs al-Ayzidiyya bayna Dāʿish wal-Bayshmarka” [On the Yezidi Disaster: between ISIS and the Peshmerga], Al-Ḥiwar al-Mutamaddin, September 1, 2014.
[3] Ford Sypher, "Rape and Sexual Slavery Inside an ISIS Prison," The Daily Beast, August 28, 2014.
[4] Jonathan Krohn, “Iraq Crisis: 'It Is Death Valley. Up to 70 Per Cent of Them Are Dead'," The Telegraph, August 10, 2014.
[5] Spencer Ackerman, Mona Mahmood, Ian Saleh and Kenton Powell, “Yazidis Still Stranded on Mount Sinjar: 'We Need Weapons Now more Than Food or Water',” The Guardian, August 27, 2014.
[6] Detailed statistics on the current dispersal of Yezidi refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan were sent to me on August 22 by Khidher Domle, a Yezidi journalist and aid activist, who is currently coordinating aid efforts in the Yezidi village of Sharia.
[7] Idan Barir, “The Yezidis of Iraq: An Endangered Minority,” Tel Aviv Notes, August 30, 2007.
[8] Abu Azad (pseudonym), “Limadha Karithat Sinjar?” [Why the Catastrophe of Sinjar?], Bahzani.net, August 14, 2014.
[9] Ersin Çaksu and Önder Elaldi, "Kirvelerimiz Ihanet Etti!” [Our Godfathers Betrayed Us!], Özgür Gündem, August 18, 2014.