The Daughters of Kobani and the Fight Against ISIS: Author Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Intelligence Matters
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🗓️ 17 February 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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In this episode of Intelligence Matters with Michael Morell, author and adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations Gayle Tzemach Lemmon talks about her new book The Daughters of Kobani. The new release tells the story of the Women’s Protection Unit (YPJ) and their fight against ISIS alongside American forces. Lemmon discusses what she describes as the most far reaching experiment in women's equality in the least likely place in the world.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Intelligence Matters, with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morrell. |
| 0:06.6 | Brought to you by Lockheed Martin. |
| 0:08.6 | Your mission is ours. |
| 0:10.2 | I wanted to capture the marvelous complexity of these people who had really led the fight against ISIS. |
| 0:19.8 | Most of the women I interviewed had never heard the idea of women's rights. |
| 0:24.8 | ISIS at the beginning ridiculed them, and then they really got to know them. |
| 0:28.9 | And they would specifically target them. |
| 0:30.9 | One of them joked, is he my joke first, and then they all did. |
| 0:33.3 | And all these interviews saying, we took it as a compliment that we were important enough that ISIS single us out. |
| 0:41.6 | Gail Samak-Laman is an author, journalist, and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. |
| 0:48.1 | She just published her most recent book, The Daughters of Kobani, |
| 0:51.7 | which tells for the first time the amazing story of how a group of Kurdish women came to serve as one of America's leading partners. |
| 0:58.8 | And the fight against ISIS. |
| 1:00.8 | Gail joins us today to talk about that new book, and we will be right back with that conversation |
| 1:05.8 | after a word from our exclusive sponsor, Lockheed Martin. |
| 1:09.6 | I'm Michael Morrell, and this is Intelligence Matters. |
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