Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
xxxi, 254 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women's rights. But that year, an all-female militia faced off against ISIS in a little town few had ever heard of: Kobani. By then, the Islamic State had swept across vast swaths of the country, taking town after town and spreading terror as the civil war burned all around it. From that unlikely showdown in Kobani emerged a fighting force...