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In 2021, Penguin Press published The Daughters of Kobani, the latest book authored by Lemmon. It is about a group of Syrian Kurdish women fighting against ISIS. [41] According to Kirkus Reviews, it is "a well-told story of contemporary female warriors and the complex geopolitical realities behind their battles."
Daughters of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World – official auxiliary of the African American version of the order. [8] Emblem Club of the United States of America – founded in 1926 as an organization of female relatives of Elks. Effectively operates as the Elks unofficial auxiliary.
Three Daughters of Eve is a 2016 novel by Turkish writer Elif Safak. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In many places, the book was recalled and retitled Confused Quest . The book centres on a wealthy, middle-aged housewife, her childhood in Istanbul and her time as a student at Oxford University where she fell in love with a philosophy professor. [ 3 ]
Kobane Calling, titled Kobane Calling: Greetings from Northern Syria in the English edition, is a comic illustrated book written and designed by the Italian author Zerocalcare. Part of the work was published in January 2015 on Internazionale , an Italian weekly.
In 1979, the Daughters was reported to have Temples in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, the Virgin Islands, other parts of the West Indies and Panama. That year it was reported to have 450,000 members. [1] The head of the Temple is known as the Daughter Ruler and the head of the Grand Temple is the Grand Daughter Ruler. [6]
Kobani, [a] [3] officially Ayn al-Arab, [b] is a Kurdish-majority city in northern Syria, lying immediately south of the Syria–Turkey border.As a consequence of the Syrian civil war, the city came under the control of the Kurdish-majority People's Protection Units (YPG) militia in 2012 and became the administrative center of the Kobani Canton, [4] later transformed into Euphrates Region of ...
The Daughters of Abraham was the inspiration of Edie Howe. She attended an interfaith service on the evening of September 11, 2001 and sat with Jewish, Christian and Muslim women. Looking around, she wondered what she could do to respond to the tragic events of that day. She decided to form a book group of women from the three Abrahamic faiths.
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present is a compilation of orature and literature by more than 200 women from Africa and the African diaspora, edited and introduced by Margaret Busby, [2] who compared the process of assembling the volume to "trying to catch a flowing river in a calabash".