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 lived a quiet life. Nadia had dreams of becoming a history teacher or opening her own beauty salon.On 15 August 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 kil…
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Weitere Autoren: Krajeski, Jenna / Clooney, Amal (Vorb.)
- ISBN: 978-0-349-00975-9
- EAN: 9780349009759
- Produktnummer: 21715531
- Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Gattung: A Memoir
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.7 cm 439 g
- Gewicht: 439
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Nadia Murad (Author) Nadia Murad is a human rights activist. She is the recipient of the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize and the Sakharov Prize, and is the UN's first Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking. Together with Yazda, a Yazidi rights organization, she is currently working to bring the Islamic State before the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. She is also the founder of Nadia's Initiative, a program dedicated to helping survivors of genocide and human trafficking to heal and rebuild their communities.
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