The Struggles and Strength of an Iraqi Teenager are Realized in, YASMEEN

A new series coming to Scout Comics will center on Yasmeen, who must overcome the horrors of a past life as a slave in a terrorist regime and how it’s possible, even without superpowers, per creators Saif A. Ahmed and Fabiana Mascolo.

The six-issue limited series will center on an Iraqi teen of the same name, Yasmeen, during two-different periods of her life. One, as a 16-year-old who must find courage within herself to endure being captured by ISIS and forced into slavery. The second, having survived two years as a slave and emerges into freedom, but is unable to connect to the things she once loved. As she attempts to adjust to normal life and battle through the struggles, she also must try to get by as a refugee in a foreign country as well.

“I am honored to join Scout Comic‘s amazing team of creators. I am also very excited to tell a story that gives a real depiction of refugees where I based a lot of the main characters’ dynamics, clothes and look off my own family and families I know,” said Ahmed. “This story of a modern tragedy, where a pure force of evil subjected tens of thousands of young women to slavery, is told from the personal point-of-view of the protagonist, Yasmeen, who represents thousands of real-life brave women who didn’t need superpowers to be called, ‘heroes’. Despite the harsh subject, the focus will not be on the actual violence and sexual assault, but rather on the aftermath and its influence on the victims.”

The announcement continues the publisher’s fifth anniversary year in which it plans to release 20 titles in 2020. The year will culminate with a celebration (and giveaways) on October 28, 2020.

Yasmeen #1 (of 6) is slated for a mid- to late-2020, release in shops.

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