Maya & Nancy Yamout

Nancy and Maya Yamout, also known as the "Mulan Sisters" or the "Kamikaze Sisters," are social workers active in Beirut, Lebanon and internationally as the president and vice president of Rescue Me - Crime Prevention.[1][2][3]

Sisters Maya and Nancy Yamout being interviewed about their research in Beirut, Lebanon

Rescue Me

Rescue Me is a rehabilitation program for accused Islamist terrorists in Roumieh Prison. The program is based on research the sisters performed during their master's degree studies. After submitting their thesis titled "The Role of Forensic Social Work in Terrorism and Knowing its Reasons and Effects on Society," the sisters created a system whereby they visit prisons holding accused terrorists to psychologically survey and rehabilitate them.

In a profession never tackled before by women within the region. With little to no infrastructure to aid them in their difficult journey. The first in the Middle East. Nancy & Maya Yamout, two beautiful and intelligent Lebanese young ladies also known as The Kamikaze Girls made it their professional choice to tackle high-risk missions in the path of fighting terrorism their own unique way. Their battle started when they plunged into the mazes of Romieh Prison in Lebanon, an extremely dangerous & conservative environment with zero tolerance for women, especially among those who were or still are at the furthest end of extremism.

The “Mulan Girls” interviewed and still do hundreds of imprisoned Jihadists in a relentless effort at deeply understanding their motives. This process was made possible through a technique developed by the sisters that employ a series of questionnaires that are exclusively focused around the detainee’s personal lives, childhood dreams and aspirations. A series of assessment were asked to each detainee to evaluate the pattern of their behavior, motives and early lives that led to them plunging into this dark world. It was not easy gaining the required level of trust and reaching tangible lead lines. The resulting conclusions of the study made by the sisters’ continuous research is today being circulated in the United States, Germany, Austria and Sweden. Conclusions that were a core element in publications now. Conclusions that enabled them to effectively comprehend what tips young people towards the black hole of extremism and terrorism with expertise employed at the diligent righteous fight towards the betterment of society through social work with prevention and rehabilitation under the umbrella of the “Rescue Me” organization that the sisters founded and established in 2011 with a vision of a society with safer homes, schools and communities. The non-profit’s organization’s mission is to undertake crime prevention through social development and reform as well as improving the quality of life for all through its versified activities in the field like workshops or offering counselling to schools, community centers and more. Rescue Me holistic approach reaches out to victims and families (children victims of crimes, bullying, domestic violence, human trafficking; victims of racially, ethnically, or religiously motivated crimes)

The Rescue Me organization has taken on many major projects since its inception. Projects like:


PROJECT 1: USAID-OTI

Conducted a School BASED, Conflict Resolution and Crime Violence Prevention in the Community targeted 320 children and 180 Parents, during 6 months, 2014.

PROJECT 2: USAID-OTI

“Messengers of Peace” project targeted 40 At-Risk youth, during 4 months, 2015.

PROJECT 3: USAID-OTI

“Engaging Tarik Jdideh Youth in Skills Training and Neighborhood Revitalization”, project targeted 40 At-Risk youth,2016 and 2015

PROJECT 4: SMEX/AMERICAN EMBASSY

“I know What To Tell My Brother, An innovative solution to counter violence extremism online, project targeted 40 extremists at Roumeih prison, during 3 months 2016.

PROJECT 5: RESCUE ME

“Tertiary crime prevention” is an ongoing program, since 2011 current to 2020, to Conduct a continual research on Profiling Male Adults Extremists in Roumieh prison Block B, also implementing suitable interventions for the Extremists and their families, project targeted 121 Extremists.

PROJECT 5: RESCUE ME

Psycho social intervention on local football team “al shabab al arabi” using neuropsychology approach and anger balances, 2017.

PROJECT 6: ART OF HOPE

Empowering women whom are victims of extremist groups through upgrading old clothes and creating dolls to be sold in markets, 2017.

PROJECT 7: ART OF HOPE

working on Syrian children with PTSD through Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention Program, 2018.

PROJECT 8: EMBASSY OF KSA

Support for Visual impartments and handicapped to Minimize disability of partially sighted, problems in seeing by providing operations optics and remedies.

PROJECT 9: RESCUE ME

law approval on “social sanction on misdemeanors adults “, 2019

Rescue Me is always interested in partnering with an academic or research institutes to develop multi-level approaches to shape a long-term work plan that can result in better understanding violent extremism in the field, thus influencing policy makers to take action and CSOs to advocate and lobby for safer communities. For this, Rescue Me recommends to utilize its know-how to support any partnership through:

Knowledge and experience sharing activities including roundtables and workshops. Co-managing pilot projects and case studies. Providing technical support for existing or upcoming CVE and PVE projects or research. Conducting quantitative and qualitative field research. Rescue Me organization offers a series of bespoke products for families, groups and individuals who are vulnerable to ideological extremism. This includes but is not limited to:

Longitudinal assessments of groups, individuals and key leaders; Holistic needs-based analysis; Trust and relationship building activities from prison to community, and Thematic analysis of PVE programs. Rescue Me is also committed to partnering with think tanks and other academic institutions to support multi-level, systematic approaches to CVE and the further development of cohesive integrated communities. For this, Rescue Me recommends the following:

Knowledge and experience sharing activities including roundtables and workshops; Co-managing pilot projects and case studies; Psychosocial interpretation of sexual paraphilia; Providing technical support for existing or upcoming CVE and PVE projects or research, and Conducting detailed field research

References
  1. "Ispovijesti osuđenih za terorizam u Libanu". AlJazeera Balkans (in Bosnian). Al Jazeera Balkans. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  2. Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "Terror-Prävention im Libanon :DW". DW.COM (in German). Deutsche Welle. Archived from the original on 2016-02-04. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  3. "Religious rehab for Muslim men in prisons :Brunel University London". www.brunel.ac.uk. London, U.K.: Brunel University London. Archived from the original on 2019-09-18. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
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