The girl who beat ISIS : Farida's story

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Label

The girl who beat ISIS : Farida's story

Title remainder

Farida's story

Statement of responsibility

Farida Khalaf

Creator

• Khalaf, Farida

Subject

• Abduction -- Iraq -- Anecdotes
• Terrorism -- Iraq -- Religious aspects | Islam -- Anecdotes
• Escaped prisoners of war -- Iraq -- Anecdotes
• Khalaf, Farida -- Anecdotes
• Yezidis -- Iraq -- History -- 21st century
• Yezidi women -- Iraq -- History -- 21st century
• Religion
• IS (Organization) -- Iraq

Genre

• Anecdotes

Language

eng

Summary

In August 2014, Farida Abbas 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

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 299.1'59'092
• 299.159092

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction