Iraq

The Beekeeper of Sinjar
by Dunya Mikhail

“You can't call a place home unless you can plant on it. They don't count age by the years, but by the seasons of harvest. They know locations not by address, but by traces of life …”

This powerful account of survival and loss and the bravery of the beekeeper who offered routes of escape, would not exist in print without the bravery of the poet, lecturer and journalist Dunya Mikhail. She conducts her interviews in the refugee camps where, despite all that has happened, there remains a spirit of generosity in the women who offer her a meal as they open their hearts to her.

Translated by Dunya Mikhail and Max Weiss
Serpent's Tail, 2018
ISBN 9781788161299