Ghazala Jango is a Yezidi researcher from Sinjar in north-eastern Iraq, currently completing her journalism degree at the American University of Sulaimani.
Historic conflicts and genocidal attempts have fractured an already weakened Yazidi resolve. Now, with the community disparately spread across borders, community leaders fear losing the very heart of Yazidi cultural identity.
After the existential peril of the 2014 Yazidi genocide, some within the community have turned to art to document their trauma, as well as creatively express their aesthetic political resistance and continued endurance for the generations to come.
