The Girl Who Escaped ISIS
Descriere
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 catastrophe
ISIS 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 story
Eventually, Farida managed to plot her escape and fled into the desert with five young girls in her care, but defeating ISIS was just the first step in her journey. In this book she tells her remarkable and inspiring story.
Despre autor
Farida Khalaf este numele de plume al unei femei yazide, răpită de ISIS în 2014, la vârsta de adolescentă, și vândută în sclavie în cadrul genocidului yazid. ISIS a avansat în nord-vestul Irakului și a fost responsabilă de un genocid împotriva a 400.000 de yazizi, răpirând aproximativ 7.000 de femei și fete yazide, forțându-le să se convertească la islam și folosindu-le pentru sclavie sexuală și trafic sexual.