Murad is the founder of Nadia's Initiative, an organization dedicated to 'helping women and children victimized by genocide, mass atrocities, and human trafficking to heal and rebuild their lives and communities. In 2018, she and Denis Mukwege were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 'their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.' She is the first Iraqi to be awarded a Nobel prize. The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State Hardcover Novemby Nadia Murad (Author), Amal Clooney (Foreword) 5,416 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. She was kidnapped and held by the Islamic State for three months. Murad is the founder of Nadia's Initiative, an organization dedicated to 'helping women and children victimized by genocide, mass atrocities, and human trafficking to heal and rebuild their lives and communities.' Source: wikipedia Nadia Murad Basee Taha (Sorani Kurdish: نادیە موراد باسی تەھا‎ Arabic: نادية مراد باسي طه‎ born 1993) is a German-based Yazidi-Iraqi human rights activist. In 2018, she and Denis Mukwege were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 'their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.' She is the first Iraqi to be awarded a Nobel prize. 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.Nadia Murad Basee Taha (Sorani Kurdish: نادیە موراد باسی تەھا‎ Arabic: نادية مراد باسي طه‎ born 1993) is a German-based Yazidi-Iraqi human rights activist. 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. 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. Nadia would be held captive by several militants and repeatedly raped and beaten. Nadia was taken to Mosul and forced, along with thousands of other Yazidi girls, into the ISIS slave trade. Six of Nadia’s brothers were killed, and her mother soon after, their bodies swept into mass graves.

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. On August 15th, 2014, when Nadia was just twenty-one years old, this life ended. Nadia had dreams of becoming a history teacher or opening her own beauty salon. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters lived a quiet life.

Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. Description My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

The Last Girl by Nadia Murad