Women of the سل

Author's name: Rabeer Yousufdar Publisher: Mamdouh Adwan for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2022 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: Stories that begin, develop, become complicated, and are interrupted before being resumed again, their heroines: Siraneh, Saltie, Salma, Khansi, Aishaneh, women whose paths and fates intersected in that enchanting region of northeastern Syria, which the "Berlin Baghdad train track" played with and affected the lives of its inhabitants. From the plains of Mardin, and the cities of: Amuda, Ras al-Ain, and the villages: Shurak, Kundiik, Tel Halaf, these women whisper secrets in their faint, broken voices marked with fear and illness. But their stories and songs go beyond their bodies' struggle with tuberculosis, reaching to immortalize the struggles of the Yazidis, Syriacs, and Armenians with oppression, massacres, and eternal alienation. In women of tuberculosis, Rabeer Yousufdar delves with his poetic language and his unique sensitivity into exploring the northeastern region of Syria, with its diversity: ethnic, religious, and racial, relying on in-depth historical, geographical, and anthropological research about the lives of people in that part of the land. But through this work, he sparks curiosity to revisit history once again, after the northeast of the country has taken on the face of a woman.