About this Event
This event offers a powerful and intimate opportunity to hear Roza Alomar share her personal story of survival, resilience, and rebuilding her life after escaping the Yazidi genocide in Iraq. In a small, respectful setting, attendees can listen to a reading from her memoir I Survived ISIS, participate in a Q&A, and have their book signed. The experience is both moving and educational, shedding light on real-world atrocities while highlighting courage and hope. Tickets are required, and part of the proceeds will support immigrant services.
Roza Alomar is a proud Yazidi woman from Shingal in Iraq who arrived in Canada in 2018. She graduated from James Fowler High School in 2024 and is currently studying culinary arts at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. She lives in Calgary.
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Event Highlights:
- An intimate setting to hear Roza's story
- Reading + Q&A
- Book signing
Event Guidelines:
- Must purchase a ticket to attend.
- Ticket includes one signed copy of I Survived ISIS **if pick the book included option
$5.00 from each ticket sold will be donated to Cochrane Immigrant Services
About the Book:
In this memoir of survival, a former captive of Daesh shares the empowering resilience of the Yazidi.
Roza Alomar is a young woman from northern Iraq, where she once lived a peaceful life with her family in the mountainside community of Shingal. When she was only ten years old, Daesh (ISIS) descended upon the Yazidi community with deadly, genocidal intent.
Roza’s grandfather was shot dead for helping diverse community members cope with the terrifying invasion; soon after this, her father was taken, and is presumed murdered, along with many of her other relatives. Towns, villages, temples, schools, hospitals, and farms were all plundered and destroyed. A systematic campaign was unleashed upon Yazidi people not only to mass M**der and enslave them, but to eradicate all trace of their religion, customs, identity, and way of life.
Roza endured these terrible events alongside her mother, her five siblings, her aunts, and many cousins. After multiple attempts to escape, finally she found safety in Calgary, Canada, where she was able to attend high school and tell her story.
This is her own harrowing tale of suffering, resilience, courage, and overcoming unspeakable obstacles on the way to freedom.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Found Books & Shop, 208 1st Street W, Cochrane, Canada
CAD 11.98 to CAD 35.41
