Having survived the rule of violent jihadists, the residents of Jinwar are attempting to build a place free of the constraints of patriarchy. Soon it could all be destroyed.
has sprung up as a place for women displaced by the Syrian revolution and the rise of the Islamic State. The cooperative is called Jinwar—Kurdish for “Women’s Land”—and it’s home to more than 30 women, many of whom were widowed in the fight against ISIS, and their children. In Jinwar, there is no central power figure; instead, there is a democratically-elected town council, and every month a different council member acts as the town’s leader.
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