Gayle Lemmon on the Women Who Beat ISIS

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🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Journalist and author Gayle Tzemach Lemmon talks about the women who fought ISIS in Syria. She discusses how the female fighters of Kobani helped to deliver the first blow to the previously unstoppable forces of the Islamic State and how that victory convinced the US that it had a reliable partner against ISIS. She shares the individual stories of some of the brave women she encountered, including some who rose to command both women and men in combat, and some who were forced to marry ISIS fighters, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:14.0	In 2014, Northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a
1:19.3	revolution centered on women's rights. But that year, an all-female militia faced off against
1:25.6	ISIS in a little town few had heard of called Kobani. By then, the Islamic State had swept across
1:33.2	large swathes of the country, taking town after town and spreading terror as the civil war
1:39.2	burned all around it. From that unlikely showdown in Kobani, emerged a fighting force that would
1:45.5	wage war against ISIS across northern Syria alongside the United States. In the process,
1:51.6	these women would spread their own political vision determined to make women's equality a reality
1:57.2	by fighting house by house, street by street, city by city, against the men who bought and sold
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