Do Not Miss This

Back during the height of the siege of Kobane there was a lot of coverage of the residents’ valiant defense of the town against what then seemed like an unstoppable ISIS tide. There were also a thousand web slide shows of the female militia members with AK-47s defending the town. But there’s a whole other part of the story you likely have not heard of: in this Kurdish enclave within Syria, a radical egalitarian political experiment in a region many of us associate with sectarianism, authoritarianism and repression. It may have meant the difference between victory and defeat in Kobane’s now apparently successful defense against ISIS. A fascinating story from The Slice.