Manbij, was liberated from ISIS control after a fierce 2 month siege in August 2016 by the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces). It’s a multiracial city, Kurds are a minority though they created the SDF coalition..
Manbij has been a great example of how liberated women can reorganise their lives and society. It has shown how the principles of the Rojava Revolution can work in a multi ethnic setting, despite the blockade and constant attacks of all kinds from Turkish forces and their jihadist mercenary militias.
AANES Women’s Institutions in Manbij
from Mesopotamia.coop by Meghan Bodette .. first published by Medium
While the applicability of the Kurdish movement’s feminist principles to non-Kurdish communities in Syria has been debated by analysts and observers, few serious attempts to understand how women from these communities view these principles in practice have been made.
The case of Manbij, liberated from ISIS by the SDF in August 2016, shows how women in a multi-ethnic Syrian city used AANES [the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria] frameworks to build institutions, take on leadership roles, and organize in their communities to change discriminatory attitudes.
