Nadia Murad

Nadia Murad Basee Taha (born 1993) is an Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist who lives in Germany. In 2014, she was kidnapped from her hometown Kocho and held by the Islamic State for three months.

The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

 * Tim Duggan Books, 2017. ISBN 978-1524760434


 * We had no ambition for more land or power, and nothing in the religion commands us to conquer non-Yazidis and spread our faith.


 * I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine.


 * I was only one of hundreds of thousands of Yazidi victims.
 * I still think that being forced to leave your home out of fear is one of the worst injustices a human being can face.