Comment on Moralee (2018). It’s in the Water: Byzantine Borderlands and the Village War. Humanities 7: 86

This response to Jason Moralees’ article comes from members and associates of the Êzidi (Yazidi) team working on Sinjar Lives/Shingal Lives, a community-driven oral history project funded by UK’s Arts Humanities Research Council. They are all survivors genocide committed ISIS in 2014. explore Moralee’s themes securitisation, imperialism violence—especially ‘village war’, its roots imperialist thought consequences—from perspective those who call village home. Beyond they discuss borders both geographical socio-cultural contemporary political significance elusive victim voice.