10.17192/meta.2020.14.8257 Abouelnaga, Shereen Shereen Abouelnaga The Minoritized Yazidi Body as a Signifier Middle East - Topics + Arguments : Vol 14 (2020) Philipps-Universität Marburg 2020 minoritized body sex slaves voice testimonies Yazidi women identity politics Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) 2020-08-11 2020-07-13 en JournalArticle https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2020/240/8257 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2020-240-82573 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2020/240/8257/8257.png 2196-629X application/pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This paper reads the testimonies of Yazidi women who survived their slavery at the hands of ISIS (DAESH) to understand how this ‘minoritized’ body, a term coined by Arjun Appadurai, has become a worldwide signifier. Due to the circulation of images and technologies, the testimonies of those women who survived have become the only means that allows visibility; yet, the visibility of the violated minoritized body is a fact that still signifies power and instills worldwide horror. The paper attempts to+nbsp; understand how the minoritized individual body has become a body politic, onto which power relations are played out and where several discourses intersect. 2196-629X Middle East - Topics + Arguments Vol 14 (2020)