Participants
The webinar was attended by 65 activists, journalists from the societies of northeastern Syria, also representatives of the Near East Office of the US State Department, activists from United Nations committees, in addition to representatives of local Syrian organizations and international organizations.
Age groups
The webinar was attended by people of different age groups (young – middle-aged)
ities of Participants
Qamishlo/Qamishli, Hasaka, Raqqa, Deir Ezzor, Tabqa, Manbij, Kobani.
Focus Points:
1 - Introducing the Yazidi religion (customs, traditions, religious rituals)
2 - Geographical distribution of Yazidis in Syria.
3 - The role of women in the Yazidi community.
Webinar Goals:
emphasizing the importance of the role of Yazidis in Syria, the need to remove the bad stereotype against them, find supporters for the Yazidi cause, and strengthening the role of fraternity among all the religious components in the region.
Webinar Results
Providing clarifications about misunderstood points about the religious rituals to many participants, as the coordinator of the organization «Better Hope for Tabqa», Radwan Al-Ali, confirmed in his statement that the information mentioned in the webinar is considered new and important, especially that they had relations to many Yazidis is in the cities of Tabqa and Aleppo, but information about their religion was insufficient.
The writer Ahmed Al-Youssef, from the Arab component of the city of Manbij, explained that he was informed for the first time with information about the Yazidi religion through this webinar, indicating that followers of Islam support the Yazidi component.
The general coordinator of the Syrian Women's Council, Lina Barakat, who is from the Alawite component, indicated the importance of minorities introducing themselves through seminars and dialogues, adding that all minorities in the region have suffered from marginalization due to the regimes which are against them, through marginalizing them in the education curricula or marginalizing their culture in the official media.
The participants also stressed the importance of holding such seminars by the members of the same minority to introduce themselves, their beliefs, customs and traditions to the other components, because ignorance of any information about any component creates a barrier between them and other components.
One of the participants suggested the importance of publishing the content of the seminar by preparing and publishing a booklet that includes information on everything related to the Yazidi religion and answers to the questions of other components about what this religion is.
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