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My story of my life in captivity and my fight against ISIS.
Foreword by Amal Clooney.

Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small Yazidi village in northern Iraq. Her family leads a modest but peaceful and happy life, and she dreams of becoming a history teacher or opening her own beauty salon.

On August 15, 2014, Nadia's life turned upside down. ISIS fighters massacre the residents of Kocho - men who refuse to convert to Islam and women who are too old to become sex slaves. Nadia's mother and six of her brothers are killed and their bodies dumped in mass graves. Twenty-one-year-old Nadia is kidnapped and taken to Mosul, where she is forced to convert to Islam and become a sex slave like thousands of other young Yazidi women. Her life is a series of rapes and humiliations, and death seems like a welcome deliverance. But she manages to escape and tell the whole world about ISIS's genocide against the Yazidis and the horror Yazidi women are subjected to in captivity.

The unimaginable atrocities leave indelible scars on Nadia's body and soul, but fail to break her. Today, she is the voice of every Yazidi, every abandoned refugee, every raped woman, and she fights tirelessly to achieve her greatest goal - to be the last girl in the world with such a destiny.

2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize. Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.