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View MoreAustralia’s Return of ISIS-Associated Women Reopens Wounds for Ezidi Survivors
The return of ISIS-associated individuals to Australia has renewed difficult questions about justice, accountability, and survivor recognition. From an Ezidi perspective, the issue is not only about national security or legal process, but also about whether those still living with the consequences of the 2014 genocide are being heard, protected, and respected.
International Children’s Day
On International Children’s Day, Ezidi Times extends its thoughts to all children affected by war, displacement, and hardship, with special attention to Ezidi children still living in camps in Iraq and growing up in the aftermath of the 2014 genocide. Every child deserves safety, healing, dignity, and the chance to simply be a child.
Lalish Is Not “a Spring That Flows Into the Stream of ‘Kurdish’ Culture”
A response Sheikh Zeido Baadri’s article on the Lalish Cultural and Social Center, questioning the repeated framing of Lalish, Sharfadin, and Ezidi identity through Kurdish nationalist language.
Why Always Syriac and Ezidi Villages?
Concerns are growing in Tur Abdin as renewable energy projects are increasingly planned near historic Syriac and Ezidi villages, raising questions over land, consent, agriculture, water resources, and the future return of displaced families.
Ezidis Are Not a “Minority Within a Minority”
A published interview about Hawar, Our Banished Children describes Ezidis as “a minority within a minority,” reducing an ancient ethno-religious people to a subgroup of another identity. This wording is not harmless. It erases Ezidi identity, insults peoples who actually live as minorities, and distorts the very genocide the film claims to address.
Book Review
Ezidi Heritage in Photos
Penn Archive Project Returns Historic Ezidi Images to the Ezidi People
Historic photographs of Ezidi life from the Penn Museum archives are being returned to the Ezidi people through a project focused on memory, heritage, and cultural restoration. The initiative brings together archival images, family photographs, and community exhibitions to help preserve what genocide tried to erase.
