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Khalaf, Farida
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Khalaf, Farida.
IS (Organization)
Yezidi women -- Crimes against -- Iraq -- Biography.
Women and war -- Iraq -- Biography.
Escaped prisoners of war -- Iraq -- Biography.
Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Kidnapping -- Iraq -- Biography.
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Khalaf, Farida
Khalaf, Farida.
IS (Organization)
Yezidi women -- Crimes against -- Iraq -- Biography.
Women and war -- Iraq -- Biography.
Escaped prisoners of war -- Iraq -- Biography.
Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Kidnapping -- Iraq -- Biography.
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The girl who beat ISIS : Farida's story / Farida Khalaf with Andrea C. Hoffmann ; translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch.
by
Khalaf, Farida
Square Peg, 2016.
Call #:
363.325 K45g
Subjects
Khalaf, Farida.
IS (Organization)
Yezidi
women
--
Crimes against
--
Iraq
--
Biography
.
Women
and
war
--
Iraq
--
Biography
.
Escaped prisoners of
war
--
Iraq
--
Biography
.
Terrorism
--
Religious aspects
--
Islam.
Kidnapping
--
Iraq
--
Biography
.
ISBN:
9781910931011 (hc)
1910931012 (hc)
Description:
204 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Translated from the German.
Summary:
In August 2014, Farida, like any ordinary teenage girl, was enjoying the summer holidays before her last year at school. But Farida lived in the mountains of northern
Iraq
- and what happened next was unimaginable. Her village was an ISIS target. ISIS jihadists murdered the men and boys, including her father and brother, before taking Farida and the other
women
prisoner. This is the story of what happened to Farida after she was captured: the beatings, the rapes, the markets where ISIS sold
women
like cattle, and Farida's realisation that the more resistant she became, the harder it was for her captors to continue their atrocities against her. So she struggled, she bit, she kicked, she accused her captors of going against their religion, until, one day, the door to her room was left unlocked. She took her chance and, with five younger girls in her charge, fled into the Syrian desert. Farida showed incredible courage in the face of the unthinkable, and now with The Girl Who Beat ISIS she bravely relives her story to bear witness. This is the first memoir by a young woman that shows first-hand what life is like for innocents caught up in the maelstrom of day-to-day life with ISIS.
Genre:
Memoirs.
Other authors:
Hoffman, Andrea C., 1973-
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