Andrea C. Hoffmann

The Girl Who Escaped ISIS

Farida's Story

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Our world as it once was In August 2014, Farida was, like any ordinary teenager, enjoying the last days of summer before her final year at school. However, her peaceful mountain village in northern Iraq was an ISIS target as their genocide against the Yazidi people began. The catastropheISIS murdered the men and boys in the village, including Farida's father and brother, and took the women hostage. Farida was one of them. She was held in a slave camp, in the homes of ISIS members and finally in a desert training camp. Continually she struggled, resisted and fought against her captors, showing unimaginable strength and bravery. This is my stor… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Khalaf, Farida

ISBN: 978-1-4735-2416-3
EAN: 9781473524163
Produktnummer: 19132268
Verlag: Vintage Digital
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'743 KB

Über den Autor

Farida Khalaf (Author) Farida and her brothers were brought up in the Yazidi community in Kocho, Iraq. She was 19 years old when ISIS attacked her village, killed the men, captured the women and sold them into slavery. After four months, Farida managed to escape against all odds. She was reunited with her mother and her brothers in an Iraqi refugee camp and was granted asylum in Germany in 2015.Andrea C. Hoffmann (Author) Andrea C. Hoffmann is a Middle East expert, a writer for Focus magazine in Germany, and author of numerous books. Her specialisation is the situation of women in Muslim countries.