The last girl my story of captivity, and my fight against the Islamic State
"In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters...
| Main Authors: | Murad, Nadia (Author), Krajeski, Jenna (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Tim Duggan Books,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition |
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| Summary: |
"In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters lived a quiet life. Nadia had dreams of becoming a history teacher or opening her own beauty salon. On August 15th, 2014, when Nadia was just twenty-one years old, this life ended. Islamic State militants massacred the people of her village, executing men who refused to convert to Islam and women too old to become sex slaves. Six of Nadia's brothers were killed, and her mother soon after, their bodies swept into mass graves. Nadia was taken to Mosul and forced, along with thousands of other Yazidi girls, into the ISIS slave trade. Nadia would be held captive by several militants and repeatedly raped and beaten. Finally, she managed a narrow escape through the streets of Mosul, finding shelter in the home of a Sunni Muslim family whose eldest son risked his life to smuggle her to safety. Today, Nadia's story--as a witness to the Islamic State's brutality, a survivor of rape, a refugee, a Yazidi--has forced the world to pay attention to the ongoing genocide in Iraq. It is a call to action, a testament to the human will to survive, and a love letter to a lost country, a fragile community, and a family torn apart by war"-- "A memoir of Nadia Murad's time as a captive of the Islamic State, her escape, and her human rights activism"-- Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she had dreams of becoming a history teacher or opening her own beauty salon. In 2014 Islamic State militants massacred the people of her village, executing men who refused to convert to Islam and women too old to become sex slaves. She was taken to Mosul and forced, along with thousands of other Yazidi girls, into the ISIS slave trade, repeatedly raped and beaten. After her escape, Murad story has forced the world to pay attention to the ongoing genocide in Iraq. |
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| Physical Description: |
306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781524760434 1524760439 9781524760441 1524760447 9781524762445 152476244X |
| Author Notes: |
Amal Clooney is a barrister practicing at Doughty Street Chambers in London who specializes in international law and human rights. She is also a Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School. Clooney is currently legal counsel to Nadia Murad and other Yazidi women who have been sexually enslaved by ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and is working to secure accountability for the crimes committed by ISIS in national and international courts. |