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Author Khalaf, Farida, author

Title The girl who beat ISIS : Farida's story / Farida Khalaf with Andrea C. Hoffmann ; translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch
Published [Place of publication not identified] : Random House, 2016
London Square Peg, 2016
©2016

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Description 203 pages : map ; 24 cm
Summary In August 2014, Farida Khalaf was just a normal Yazidi girl, living in a village high in the mountains of northern Iraq. Then her village was attacked and swiftly taken by ISIS fighters, and her whole world changed. The jihadists murdered the men and the boys of her village, including her father and brothers, before taking Farida prisoner along with the rest of the women. This is the story of what happened to Farida after she was captured: the beatings, the rapes, the markets where ISIS sold their female prisoners like cattle, and Farida's realisation that the more difficult and 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, and then, one day, the door to her room was left unlocked. She took her chance along with 5 other women, and set out across the Syrian desert...This is a story of incredible courage in the face of unthinkable atrocity. As the battle against ISIS continues to ravage the Middle East, The Girl Who Beat Isis provides an astonishing perspective on this very terrifying global threat
Notes Translated from the German
Subject Khalaf, Farida.
IS (Organization)
IS (Organization) -- Personal narratives.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives.
Kidnapping -- Iraq.
Jihad.
Genre/Form Personal narratives.
Reading nook.
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
Author Hoffmann, Andrea Claudia, author
Bulloch, Jamie, translator
ISBN 9781910931028 (paperback)
1910931020 (paperback)