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The last girl : my story of captivity, and my fight against the Islamic State
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ISBN: 9781524760441 1524760447 9781524762445 9781524760458 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Tim Duggan Books

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"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"--


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Pour que je sois la dernière
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ISBN: 9782213705545 2213705542 Year: 2018 Publisher: Paris, France Fayard

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"La vie de Nadia Murad a basculé le 15 octobre 2014, lorsque les djihadistes de Daech sont entrés dans le petit village de Kocho, en Irak. Ce jour-là, après avoir rassemblé tous les habitants de cette communauté yézidie dans l'école, les terroristes les ont méthodiquement tués ou kidnappés. L'horreur avait été programmée : les hommes qui refusaient de se convertir à l'islam devaient rejoindre dans les fosses les femmes jugées trop vieilles pour servir. Et parmi elles, la mère de Nadia Murad. La jeune Yézidie est emmenée à Mossoul avec des milliers d'autres jeunes fi lles pour y être vendue. Servante, esclave sexuelle, elle devient la prisonnière de combattants de l'État islamique, jusqu'à sa fuite miraculeuse, grâce à l'aide d'une famille irakienne sunnite. Nadia Murad, meurtrie par la disparition de tant des siens et par ce qu'elle a subi, vit aujourd'hui en Allemagne. Malgré les humiliations, elle a décidé de prendre la plume pour tout raconter. Pas pour elle, puisqu'il est déjà trop tard, mais pour tous les Yézidis et pour toutes les autres femmes victimes de violences. Aujourd'hui, Nadia Murad n'a qu'un seul souhait : « Être la dernière fille au monde à avoir à raconter une histoire pareille. » Ce livre est son histoire." -- "In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of ISIS tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her eleven brothers and sisters lived a quiet life. Nadia was in high school and had dreams of becoming a history teacher and opening her own beauty salon. On August 15th, 2014, when Nadia was just twenty-one years old, this life ended. ISIS militants massacred the people of her village, executing men old enough to fight 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 and her two sisters were taken to Mosul, where they joined thousands of Yazidi girls in the ISIS slave trade. Nadia would be sold three times, raped, beaten, and forced to convert to Islam in order to marry one of her captors. 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 the safety of a refugee camp. There, surrounded by bereaved and broken Yazidi families, Nadia decided to devote her life to bringing ISIS to justice. As a farm girl in rural Iraq, Nadia could not have imagined she would one day address the United Nations or be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She had never been to Baghdad, or even seen an airplane. As a slave, she was told by her captors that Yazidis would be erased from the face of the earth, and there were times when she believed them. Today, Nadia's story--as a witness to ISIS, 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." --


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Ik zal de laatste zijn : mijn strijd tegen de Islamitische Staat
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ISBN: 9789026339042 Year: 2017 Publisher: Amsterdam Ambo|Anthos

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