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The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State (edizione 2018)

di Nadia Murad (Autore), Amal Clooney (Prefazione)

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Biography & Autobiography. Politics. Nonfiction. HTML:WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE �?� In this �??courageous�?� (The Washington Post) 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 an ongoing genocide. 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… (altro)

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Utente:	nobooksnolife
Titolo:	The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
Autori:	Nadia Murad (Autore)
Altri autori:	Amal Clooney (Prefazione)
Info:	Tim Duggan Books (2018), Edition: Reprint, 320 pages
Collezioni:	La tua biblioteca, KINDLE, In lettura (inactive)
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The Last Girl is a harrowing read, recounting as it does the atrocities committed by the self-described Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq, the genocidal campaign they waged against the country's minority Yazidi community, and the terror and sexual violence that they've inflicted on Yazidi women like Nadia Murad. One of the perverse incentives that ISIS offers its recruits is the prospect of acquiring sabiyya: non-Muslim women whom, according to their interpretation of Islam, they can enslave and abuse as they wish. Murad became one of them after ISIS captured her home town and slaughtered her mother and six of her siblings. Murad's account is desperately sad and upsetting, and all the more important to read because of it. (

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siriaeve | Sep 17, 2022 |

I'm glad this book was written. The author's story must be told. It is especially pertinent now as it seems ISIS might again be on the rise. That said, I can't help saying I did not like this book precisely because it is a story of man's inhumanity to man or woman. We'd like to think that we have reached a high level of humanness. And then along comes something like ISIS to prove that we are nowhere as civilized as we think we are. (

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DeaconBernie | Oct 15, 2021 |

So brave of Nadia Murad to share what happened to her. This is an essential read. She writes of how a community was annihilated and the courage to survive and rebuild. It's not an easy read but it is one you have to in order not to be ignorant about the world. Powerful ending. (

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siok | Aug 24, 2021 |

The Last Girl, My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State, by Nadia Murad with Jenna Krajeski (pp 306). Nadia Murad’s story is one we know in its barest details, that ISAS fighters are brutal and repressive. This book brings to light some of the specifics that illuminate facts that remain largely in the shadows: that non-believers are wholesale murdered, women are brutally and serially raped, families and communities are crushed, and a perverted version of Islam is shoved down the throat of everyone within reach. Nadia is a member of the Yazidi non-Muslim minority, the males and older women in her small village were gunned down, and she and other younger women were declared sabiyya (sex slaves). This is her story of her life in northern Iraq in the village of Kocho, it’s capture by Islamic State militants, her use as a sex slave by innumerable men, and her daring escape. The most graphic details of her and similarly situated ordeal are left to the readers’ imaginations, but what she does reveal are horrendous and purposefully dehumanizing. (

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wildh2o | Jul 10, 2021 |

Very moving and desperately sad account of what happened to the Yazidi people at the hands of ISIS. (

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I «Den siste jenta» snur Nadia Murad en offerfortelling til å bli en historie om kampvilje og motstandskraft.

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Nadia Murad	—	autore primario	tutte le edizioni	calcolato
Clooney, Amal	Prefazione	autore secondario	tutte le edizioni	confermato

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Early in the summer of 2014, when I was busy preparing for my last year of high school, two farmers disappeared from their fields just outside Kocho, the small Yazidi village in northern Iraq where I was born and where, until recently, I thought I would live for the rest of my life.

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Biography & Autobiography. Politics. Nonfiction. HTML:WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE �?� In this �??courageous�?� (The Washington Post) 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 an ongoing genocide. 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

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