Abstract
This blog post introduces the educational stories of 20 young women, aged between 18 and 28, from Nineveh Plain and Mosul. The stories were collected and co-constructed as part of my recent life history study with the young women, which took place between February and June 2024 and focused on the young women’s educational narratives as they navigated life after being internally displaced to different cities in federal Iraq and the Kurdistan region following the 2014 ISIS invasion.
The young women represented different cultural backgrounds, including Yazidi, Shabak, Christian, and Sunni Arab communities. Through their stories, they shared the profound challenges and barriers they faced in accessing and continuing education and the opportunities and motivations that helped them persist and succeed within the complex political, socioeconomic, cultural, and traditional contexts that defined their lives during and after the conflict.
The young women represented different cultural backgrounds, including Yazidi, Shabak, Christian, and Sunni Arab communities. Through their stories, they shared the profound challenges and barriers they faced in accessing and continuing education and the opportunities and motivations that helped them persist and succeed within the complex political, socioeconomic, cultural, and traditional contexts that defined their lives during and after the conflict.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published online - 18 Oct 2024 |