Yasmeen comic books issue 1
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Published Jun 2020 by Scout Comics.$2.50
Written by Saif A. Ahmed. Art by Fabiana Mascolo. Iraq, 2014. Life couldn't be better for 16 year-old Yasmeen as her family is able to buy a big new house. Then ISIS invades Mosul. Yasmeen's Shia family barely escapes, while Yasmeen us captured by terrorists and sees her uncle executed. Yasmeen is sold to an ISIS fighter as a slave and must relinquish her innocence in order to save her three new Yazidi friends who are punished with starvation. Two years later, Yasmeen is reunited with her family in the United States. Her parents are so happy to be reunited with Yasmeen that they fail to see the state of depression that she has fallen into after two years of slavery and torments. Now faced with a new life, Yasmeen must learn to survive in a society that both fears and hates her and must overcome the horrors of the past in an attempt to find herself again. 24 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
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Published Jul 2021 by Scout Comics.$6.00
$6.00
1st printing. Collects Yasmeen (2020 Scout Comics) #1-6.
Written by Saif A Ahmed. Art and cover by Fabiana Mascolo.
Split between two periods in her life, Yasmeen is a comic book limited series/graphic novel that tells the story of an Iraqi girls struggles to survive slavery in ISIS terrorist regime in Mosul.
Yasmeen was a happy 16-year-old when she was captured by ISIS invading army and is forced to find the courage within herself to endure slavery.
Then, after surviving long two years in captivity, she is freed but has become a different person. Unable to connect to the things that she loved before, she must go through a different kind of struggle as she tries to adjust to the normal life with her family as refugees in a foreign country, America.
Collects issues one through six of the critically acclaimed series!
Softcover, 130 pages, full color.
Cover price $19.99.