Cathy Otten is a British writer and journalist based in Iraqi Kurdistan. She writes for a range of publications including the Independent, Newsweek, BBC, TIME, Vogue, Politico, Monocle, the Guardian and the Telegraph. She is a regular commentator on TV and radio, talking about Iraq and the war with ISIS.

WITH ASH ON THEIR FACES Yezidi Women and the Islamic State Cathy Otten Iraqi Kurdistan-based journalist Cathy Otten here reports the calamity of the Yezidi women, enslaved after ISIS’s besiegement of Sinjar Mountain in 2014—and the continuing fallout from the disaster. More