Sinjar Lives: Oral Histories from the IDP camps of Northern Iraq

该项目将保护伊拉克最弱势群体之一的濒危非物质文化。它将提供Sinjari Yez（又名Yaz/Ez）的口述历史档案，这是一个不与外人结婚或接受皈依者的少数宗教团体，几个世纪以来一直受到迫害。2014年，30万名耶扎布人在所谓的“伊斯兰国”（达伊沙）的种族灭绝袭击中被赶出位于伊拉克北方辛贾尔山的家园。数千人被屠杀或奴役;约20万人留在库尔德斯坦地区的国内流离失所者营地，在辛贾尔（位于叙利亚边境）安全之前无法返回家园。许多人仍然深受创伤，在库尔德斯坦目前的经济形势下，很难找到工作。在难民营艰难的生活环境中，辛贾里·耶扎伊深深感受到了文化遗产的破坏和丧失，我们将创建一个平等主义的口述历史档案，由辛贾里·耶扎布自己规划、记录和存档，他们将成为自己历史的研究者和策展人，与伊拉克和国际合作伙伴-英国埃克塞特大学和伊拉克苏莱马尼美国大学Kashkul艺术和研究所（AUIS）-共同研究最佳做法。埃克塞特的库尔德研究中心与库尔德斯坦地区政府有着牢固的关系;公共信息机构不仅在国内流离失所者营地工作，而且还协调另一个伊拉克/伊朗宗教少数群体萨比安曼达埃人的文化遗产档案;卡什库尔与伊拉克总统办公室合作，带领苏莱曼尼成功申请成为联合国教科文组织文学之城，并制作了《摩苏尔生活》，中东第二大口述历史档案馆。辛贾里·耶兹迪口述历史学家将使用智能手机和小型麦克风进行记录（最近的iPhone有4 K定义），并将分享调查结果和讨论与他们的社区使用社交媒体营地居民遵循- YouTube，Facebook和Instagram -因为他们收集生活史和民间传说，并与其他当地社区一起庆祝民俗节的完成。为了更广泛地发展这一点，我们将联系我们在杜胡克和苏莱马尼的优秀学术、政府和非政府组织合作伙伴网络（例如库尔德斯坦遗产中心;杜胡克大学;杜胡克省）。档案将存储在当地的AUIS和埃克塞特大学数字人文实验室维护的数据库中，通过一个网站可以从互联网上的任何地方开放访问。这将是Sinjari Yezdom的反思空间，也是子孙后代的资源。它还将发展文化遗产记录、存档和管理方面的技能。为该项目编制的培训材料可供其他社区或教育机构使用，这些社区或教育机构可能受到Sinjari Yez榜样的启发，并在开展自己的项目时寻求指导。对于学术合作伙伴来说，这将是平等主义存档的案例研究，在危机情况下开发方法和实践。对当地人来说，这将是伊拉克多元文化过去的独特见证，以很少听到的声音说话。

This project will preserve endangered immaterial culture of one of the most disadvantaged groups in Iraq. It will provide an oral history archive of the Sinjari Yezidis (aka Yazidis/Ezidis), a minority religious group which does not marry out or accept converts, and which has been persecuted for centuries. In 2014, 300,000 Yezidis were evicted from their home on Mt Sinjar in Northern Iraq by genocidal attacks at the hands of so-called 'Islamic state' (Da'esh). Thousands were massacred or enslaved; some 200,000 remain in IDP camps in the Kurdistan region, unable to return home until Sinjar (which lies on the border with Syria) is securitised. Many are still deeply traumatized and in Kurdistan's current economic situation, work is hard to find. In the difficult living space of the camps, Sinjari Yezidis have felt the disruption and loss of their cultural heritage deeply and, working through Kashkul (see below), have motivated this bid.We will create an egalitarian oral history archive, planned, recorded and archived by Sinjari Yezidis themselves who will become researchers and curators of their own history, working on best practice with Iraqi and international partners - the University of Exeter, UK and the Kashkul arts and research institute of the American University of Iraq at Sulaimani (AUIS). Exeter's Centre for Kurdish Studies has a strong relationship with the Kurdistan Regional Government; the PI has not only worked in the IDP camps but has also coordinated a cultural heritage archive of another Iraqi/Iranian religious minority, the Sabian Mandaeans; Kashkul worked with the President of Iraq's office to spearhead Sulaimani's successful application to be a UNESCO City of Literature and also produced 'Mosul Lives,' the second largest oral history archive in the Middle East.The Sinjari Yezidi oral historians will record using smartphones and small microphones (recent iphones have 4K definition) and will share findings and discussions with their community using the social media camp residents follow - YouTube, Facebook and Instagram - as they collect life histories and folklore, and with other local communities as they celebrate completion of the archive with a folklore festival. To develop this more widely, we will contact our excellent network of academic, government and NGO associates in Duhok and Sulaimani (e.g. The Kurdistan Heritage Centre; The University of Dohuk; the Governorate of Dohuk).The archive will be stored locally, at AUIS and also in a database maintained by the Digital Humanities Lab at Exeter University, through a website available on open access from anywhere on the Internet. It will be a space of reflection for Sinjari Yezidis and a resource for future generations. It will also develop skills in recording, archiving and stewardship of cultural heritage. The training materials generated for the project can be used by other communities or by educational institutions who may be inspired by the Sinjari Yezidis' example and look to them for guidance in undertaking their own projects. For the academic partners this will be a case study in egalitarian archiving, developing methodology and practice in crisis situations. For local people, it will be a unique witness to Iraq's multicultural past, spoken in voices which are rarely heard.