ARTIST OF THE WEEK: Youssef Boudlal

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Jewish Journal

December 20, 2017

Photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters

Photographer Youssef Boudlal

A girl from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, rests at the Iraqi-Syrian border crossing in Fishkhabour, Dohuk province, on Aug. 13, 2014.

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