Yezidis in Syria

Yezidis in Syria: Identity Building among a Double Minority traces the development of Yezidi identity on the margins of Syria s minority context. This little known group is connected to the community s main living area in northern Iraq, but evolved as a separate identity group in the context of Syria s colonial, national, and revolutionary history. Always on the bottom of the socio-economic hierarchy, the two sub-groups located in the Kurdagh and the Jezira experience a period of sociological and theological renewal in their quest for a recognized and protected status in the new Syria. In this book, Sebastian Maisel transmits and analyzes the Yezidi perspective on Syria s policies towards ethnic and religious minorities."