Yasmeen (2020 Scout Comics) comic books
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Issue #1
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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Issue #2
Published Jul 2020 by Scout Comics.$2.50
Written by Saif A. Ahmed. Art by Fabiana Mascolo. During the ISIS invasion of Mosul, Yasmeen and her uncle are stopped by one of Iraq's infamous fake checkpoints, where Yasmeen's uncle was murdered. Now Yasmeen finds herself at the mercy of a family of fanatics, while two years later in America, Yasmeen's family pushes her back to school in hopes that she would forget the past and move on. Powerfully written by Iraqi immigrant, Saif A. Ahmed, YASMEEN is a dramatic coming of age drama in a time of war. 24 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
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Issue #3
Published Oct 2020 by Scout Comics.$2.50
$2.50
Written by Saif A. Ahmed. Art by Fabiana Mascolo. Yasmeen finds a ray of light in her friendship with the three Yazidi girls that are captured with her. But that little happiness gets shattered when Abu Assem decides to sell one of the girls. Now that it's a matter of time for them to be sold one by one, Yasmeen and her friends decide it's time to escape. While two years later in America, Yasmeen's angry outburst has caused tension between her and her father. 24 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
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Issue #4
Published Nov 2020 by Scout Comics.$2.50
$2.50
Written by Saif A. Ahmed. Art by Fabiana Mascolo. Yasmeen is starting to lose hope after her last attempt to escape has failed. While two years later in America, Yasmeen goes on a mission with her mother in a race against time to stop a nude photo of her friend from spreading online. 24 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
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Issue #5
Published Dec 2020 by Scout Comics.$2.50
$2.50
Written by Saif A. Ahmed. Art by Fabiana Mascolo. Yasmeen's father tags along with the Iraqi army as they prepare for battle in hope to rescue Yasmeen from her new owner. While in 2016, Yasmeen's mother has a surprise for her daughter who decided to put on hijab again. 24 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
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Issue #6
Published Jan 2021 by Scout Comics.$3.00
$2.50
$2.50
Written by Saif A. Ahmed. Art by Fabiana Mascolo. Past and present clash in the series finale as Yasmeen must find the courage to face her darkest memories during a police investigation into her history. Meanwhile, Wassan forces Khalid to listen as she tells him about what Yasmeen had been through in Iraq, prompting Khalid to reveal a dark part of Yasmeen's survival story. Cover price $3.99.
