WorldcrunchKhalifa Al Khuder is a Syrian journalist, writer and photographer. Former detainee in ISIS prisons, he wrote the book “Stories from ISIS prisons in Syria,” and won the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press and Media in 2017.
The various forms of death Syrians have endured in recent years have not led traditional segments of society to reconsider the idea of “cleansing dishonor.” Instead, technology has been used to reinforce it — with perpetrators recording these acts on mobile phones, proudly broadcasting their violence for all to see. While some viewers watch in sorrow, others look on with disturbing pride or morbid curiosity.
The arrest and trial of a female associate of the Islamic, one of many stories of women that have never been told, how the militant group employed them in various forms during its rule and even after its defeat and its transformation into separate but active cells.