Yazidi Women Training in Israel to Help Their Community Cope With the Trauma of ISIS

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Two-week course developed by experts in the hopes community leaders can return to Iraq, where 'there’s roughly one psychologist or social worker for every 300,000 people,' with the tools to help others
Ido Efrati
Jul 05, 2019 6:49 PM



Lamiya Aji Bashar who tried to escape countless times after being sold to Islamic State fighters.


It’s hard to look Lamiya Aji Bashar in the eyes. Through them you can see the hell this young Yazidi woman has went through, not to mention her scarred face. The eyes of our Kurmanji translator fill as she translates from this Kurdish dialect into English, proving a little distance from the story of a girl who was taken captive by the Islamic State at age 15. But not enough.

This rare face-to-face meeting took place, surprisingly enough, in central Israeli Bar-Ilan University’s psychology department. Aji Bashar is the only member of her delegation from Iraq who can reveal her face and name. That’s because she now lives in Germany, as part of a special rehabilitation program for 1,100 women and children who survived Islamic State captivity...

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