These are Dindar, Harijan and their kids on their balcony in Amadiya in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. The ancient town is located entirely on a giant rock. Dindar and Harijn are lucky enough to have a house right by the edge of the rock’s cliff from where one can…
Category: Naher Osten
Apparently, Yazidi refugees in Northern Iraq are big Bundesliga fans. Altogether there seem to be more people with Borussia Dortmund shirts, but some Bayern Munich fans can also be spotted. (Photo May 2017)
This Yazidi refugee from the Sinjar region presented his family’s Kalashnikov, taken out of a hiding place in a corner of their little hut. He said that they kept it because they would maybe need it again in the future to defend themselves. Looking at the history of persecution and…
Yazidi refugee kids in Sharya, Northern Iraq, 2017. They had to leave their homes because ISIS had conquered their lands.