The World Has Forgotten Us: Sinjar and the Islamic State's Genocide of the Yezidis

'A comprehensive, indispensable work'

'Südwind'

'The discrimination, exclusion and persecution of the Yezidis did not just begin in 2014 with the so-called Islamic State. Thomas Schmidinger shows with great dedication the anatomy of a subtle genocide against the Yezidis in last two hundred years'

Professor Jan Ilhan Kizilhan, Director of the Institute for Genocide and Peace Studies, Stuttgart

'An important book delving into the history and recent memory of the community, a vivid reminder of how the past and present of the Yezidis continue to be painfully intertwined'

Nelida Fuccaro, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the New York University Abu Dhabi

'Thomas Schmidinger is one the best experts on the region. This book is a must read'

Josef Weidenholzer, former MEP and Professor Emeritus, University of Linz, Austria

'Fills a void in the literature. Through impressive first-hand documentation, the book explains the culture and history of this unique community in sympathetic terms and details the rapacious genocidal aggression of ISIS to obliterate this ancient Mesopotamian community'

Tareq Y. Ismael, Professor of Political Science, University of Calgary, Canada