The Art of Survival exhibition has been created by four Yazidi women survivors currently living in IDP (Internally Displaced Person) refugee camps in Iraq.

Jun 3, 2021 · 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.

The Yazidi Cultural Archives project aimed to improve the mental health of female Yazidi survivors through participation in a series of artist-led workshops and a multi-media digital archive of Yazidi cultural heritage at risk.

Oct 26, 2022 · Through The Art of Survival: A Yazidi Cultural Archive exhibition people can explore inspiring paintings of resistance and healing by Yazidi women who have hope, belief in their dreams and are proud now to share their culture with a new generation.

The Iraq Cultural Health Fund, part of the Healing Arts initiative, addresses the mental health crisis in Iraq with a focus on community participation. It supports programmes for the Marsh Arabs in Southern Iraq and the Yazidi community in Northern Iraq, developed with local NGOs to ensure community ownership.

Pioneering digital archives of the culture of the Yazidis, a minority community in northern Iraq that suffered genocide at the hands of the Da’esh in 2014, were published today by the United Nations (UN) on Google’s Arts and Culture platform.

Oct 26, 2022 · In collaboration with Google Arts & Culture, the United Nations has published four unique digital stories commemorating the strength and vitality of the Yazidi people following the 2014 genocide in Iraq carried out by Da’esh.

In 2017, to mark the third Anniversary, Hannah Rose Thomas and clinical psychologist Dr. Sarah Whittaker-Howe facilitated a trauma-healing art workshop with Yazidi women who had escaped ISIS captivity.

United Nations are hosting a digital archive of art by the Yazidi genocide women survivors on the Google Arts & Culture platform. It is a result of year-long and meticulous effort to document the Yazidi people's tradition and salvage it from extinction after the Taliban chased them out of Iraq killing thousands.

Explore Yazidi life and culture through the photographs of women survivors of the 2014 genocide in Iraq perpetrated by Da’esh