Nadia Murad

From the Nobel Prize Winner, author of The Last Girl, comes an inspiring new story. Nadia Murad, a young Iraqi woman has made the powerful decision to define herself not as victim of war crime, but as an activist for women, rallying particularly against Conflict-related Sexual Violence with the backing of supporters such as Amal Clooney. She tells of finding a voice, an education and love. Nadia Murad told the shocking account of how she and thousands of other Yazidi women in Iraq were kidnapped by ISIS militants and sold into slavery in 2014. Her daring escape from her captor in Mosul, her determination to alert the world to this injustice and her subsequent campaign for the release of other women formed her memoir, The Last Girl. Now, living between America and Germany, and free of those who sought to control her and her message after her escape, Nadia Murad has graduated from an American university with a degree in Sociology and, despite some opposition, married her love, Abid, a human rights advocate and a former translator and advisor with the American military in Iraq. I Choose My Beginning , a powerful journey and a quest to transform her experience from oppression and silence into one of strength and perseverance - and even joy -- takes readers into the courtrooms where survivors of CRSV fight for justice, classrooms where children learn to live in war zones, and camps where refugees grapple with uncertain futures. We witness the first successful convictions of genocide against ISIS members and meet other activists and survivors of CRSV. We visit the Nadia's home village, still standing a decade after the genocide, and witness as she rebuilds a new home, one defined by love and ideals, not by religion or nationality. And Nadia tells the stories of her loved ones -- those who survived and those who did not -- who are the inspiration for her life's work. Nadia's organization, Nadia's Initiative, has helped to rebuild parts of Iraq - including women's centers, and a hospital; rebuilt hundreds of Yazidi farms and wells; designed and opened a memorial where there was once a mass grave - showing that war refugees, given the chance, can return home. Nadia herself has become a leader in the worldwide movement to treat CRSV as a war crime, building a community of survivors, once silenced, that grows louder and stronger with every word. The Last Girl was the memoir of a survivor of unspeakable crimes; I Choose My Beginning tells the story of an extraordinary young woman, passionately writing her own life.

"Nadia is a fierce warrior for justice and a beautiful human being I feel privileged to know. She will inspire women for generations." --Amal Clooney In a lyrical and profoundly moving memoir, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad reclaims her extraordinary journey from the embers of devastation to a fight for freedom--and for what comes next when a young girl's flame cannot be extinguished. In 2014, Nadia Murad was living in northern Iraq when her world was shattered. Fighters from the so-called Islamic State attacked her village, massacring hundreds--including her mother and six of her brothers--and forcing her, along with thousands of Yazidi women and girls, into ISIS's system of sexual slavery. Her life since then has been split in two. In one she is a global symbol of courage --a survivor and activist who has stood before world leaders to demand justice. In the other, she is a woman learning how to be a friend, a student, a wife; a woman rediscovering ordinary joy. In I Choose My Beginning, Nadia brings these two selves together. With honesty and grace, she transforms the pain of her past into a life defined not by what was done to her, but by strength, perseverance, and the freedom to choose happiness. From reshaping international law to building a life filled with friendship and love, Nadia carries the memory of those she lost and those who survived. Their presence reminds her--and all of us--that she has always been more than a victim. Powerful and deeply inspiring, I Choose My Beginning is the story of an extraordinary woman reclaiming her humanity--and showing that survival is not the end of the story. It is the beginning.

Premio Nobel de la Paz 2018 Nadia Murad fue v ctima de la yihad sexual del Estado Isl mico. Ahora se ha convertido en defensora de los derechos humanos, en la primera persona en ser nombrada Embajadora de Buena Voluntad por la Dignidad de los Supervivientes de la Trata de Personas de las Naciones Unidas. Esta es su historia. El 15 de agosto de 2014, la vida de Nadia Murad cambi para siempre. Las tropas del Estado Isl mico irrumpieron en su peque a aldea del norte de Irak, donde la minor a yazid llevaba una vida tranquila, y cometieron una masacre. Ejecutaron a hombres y mujeres, entre ellos a su madre y seis de sus hermanos, y los amontonaron en fosas comunes. A Nadia, que ten a veinti n a os, la secuestraron, junto a otras miles de j venes y ni as, y la vendieron como esclava sexual. Los soldados la torturaron y violaron repetidamente durante meses, hasta que una noche logr huir de milagro por las calles de Mosul. As emprendi el largo y peligroso viaje hacia la libertad. De peque a, Nadia, una ni a campesina, jam s hubiera imaginado que un d a hablar a ante las Naciones Unidas ni que ganar a el Premio Nobel de la Paz. Nunca hab a pisado Bagdad, ni siquiera hab a visto un avi n. Hoy la historia de Nadia insta al mundo a prestar atenci n al genocidio de su pueblo. Es un llamamiento a la acci n para detener los cr menes del Estado Isl mico, un poderoso testimonio de la fuerza de voluntad humana. Yo ser la ltima es, asimismo, una carta de amor a un pa s desaparecido, a una comunidad vulnerable y a una familia devastada por la guerra. El valor y el testimonio de una joven pueden cambiar el mundo. Para que no se olvide, porque quiere ser la ltima que tenga que vivirla, Nadia cuenta su historia. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Nobel Peace Prize 2018 Nadia Murad was a victim of the Islamic State's sexual jihad. Now she has become a human rights advocate, the first person to be appointed United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking. This is her story. On August 15, 2014, Nadia Murad's life changed forever. Islamic State troops stormed her small village in northern Iraq, where the Yazidi minority lived a peaceful life, and committed a massacre. They executed men and women, including her mother and six of her brothers, and piled them into mass graves. Nadia, who was twenty-one years old, was kidnapped along with thousands of other young women and girls and sold as a sex slave. The soldiers tortured and raped her repeatedly for months until one night she miraculously managed to escape through the streets of Mosul. Thus began her long and dangerous journey to freedom. As a child, Nadia, a peasant girl, never imagined that one day she would speak before the United Nations or win the Nobel Peace Prize. She had never set foot in Baghdad, nor had she ever seen an airplane. Today, Nadia's story urges the world to pay attention to the genocide of her people. It is a call to action to stop the crimes of the Islamic State, a powerful testimony to the strength of the human will. The Last Girl is also a love letter to a vanished country, a vulnerable community, and a family devastated by war. The courage and testimony of a young woman can change the world. So that it is not forgotten, because she wants to be the last to have to live it, Nadia tells her story.

नोबेल शांतता पुरस्कार विजेतीची कहाणी़...नादिया मुराद ही अत्यंत धाडसी यजिदी तरुणी आहे. तिनं इसिसची लैंगिक गुलामगिरी सोसली आहे. तिनं कल्पनातीत यातना आणि अपमान भोगला आहे. नादियाच्या सहा भावांना गोळ्या घालून ठार करण्यात आलं आणि त्यानंतर काही काळातच, तिच्या आईलाही ठार मारण्यात आलं. त्यांचे मृतदेह सामूहिक कबरींत लोटण्यात आले...पण तिनं लढा दिला...इराकमधील तिचे बालपणीचे शांततामय दिवस... घरच्यांचा कायमचा वियोग आणि अमानुषतेचा सामना... ते जर्मनीत लाभलेली सुरक्षितता यादरम्यानचा प्रवास या आत्मकथनातून उलगडत जातो.

Tilldelad Nobels fredspris 2018"Mest av allt önskar jag att jag är den sista flickan i världen med en berättelse som min." Som barn drömmer Nadia Murad om att bli historielärare eller öppna sin egen skönhetssalong. Livet i byn Kocho i norra Irak är lugnt och stilla. I augusti 2014 förändras allt. Nadia, som nyss fyllt 21 och fortfarande går i skolan, kidnappas och säljs som sexslav till Islamiska statens soldater. Sex av hennes bröder, och strax därefter även hennes mamma, mördas brutalt. Under tre månader utsätts hon för upprepande misshandel och våldtäkt innan hon slut lyckas fly." Den sista flickan" är Nadia Murads berättelse om sin tid i fångenskap och om sin livsviktiga kamp mot Islamiska staten. Idag är hon bosatt i Tyskland och är människorättsaktivist och goodwill-ambassadör för FN. Nadia Murad tilldelades Nobels fredspris 2018.

I 2014 var Nadia Murad en 21-år gammel jente som drømte om å bli lærer. Hun bodde i en liten og sammenspleiset landsby i Nord-Irak med moren, brødrene og søstrene sine. Jesdiene, som hun og familien tilhørte, var en religiøs minoritet som levde fredfullt side om side med sine muslimske og kristne naboer, da soldater tilknyttet IS en augustdag i 2014 inntok landsbyen deres. For IS var Jesidiene et enkelt mål, de holdt til i et område av stor strategisk betydning for den militante gruppen, og hadde ingen nevneverdig beskyttelse. Landsbyens befolkning ble samlet sammen på en skole der menn og kvinner ble adskilt. Nadia var vitne til at mennene ble kjørt av gårde i lastebiler og hørte kort tid etter skuddsalver, da de av dem som nektet å konvertere til Islam ble henrettet. Blant dem var seks av Nadias brødre. Selv ble Nadia plukket ut av en IS-soldat som, sammen med sine medsoldater, gjentatte ganger voldtok og banket henne. Denne torturen pågikk i flere dager, inntil Nadia, ved et lykketreff klarte å rømme. Nå forteller Nadia for første hele historien om de dramatiske dagene og flukten som fulgte. Nadia har blitt en sentral stemme i formidlingen av IS’ overgrep og etter at hun omsider klarte å komme seg til Tyskland, gikk fortellingen hennes verden rundt. Hun ble nominert til Nobels fredspris, mottok Vaclac Havels menneskerettighetspris, og ble FNs første Goodwill-ambassadør for overlevende av menneskehandel. Den siste jenta er en naturlig fortsettelse av Nadias viktige arbeid i å formidle overgrepene begått i terrorgruppens navn og et nødvendig bidrag i arbeidet med å bekjempe IS og stille dem til ansvar for sine handlinger.

New York Times Editors' Choice In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters lived a quiet life. Nadia had dreams of becoming a history teacher or opening her own beauty salon. On August 15th, 2014, when Nadia was just twenty-one years old, this life ended. 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. Six of Nadia's brothers were killed, and her mother soon after, their bodies swept into mass graves. Nadia was taken to Mosul and forced, along with thousands of other Yazidi girls, into the ISIS slave trade. Nadia would be held captive by several militants and repeatedly raped and beaten. 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. 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 the ongoing genocide in Iraq. 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.

The remarkable and courageous story of Nadia Murad, a twenty-three-year-old Yazidi woman who is working with Amal Clooney to challenge the world to fight ISIS on behalf on her people.

"Nadia Murad fue v ctima de la yihad sexual del Estado Isl mico. Ahora se ha convertido en defensora de los derechos humanos, en la primera persona en ser nombrada Embajadora de Buena Voluntad por la Dignidad de los Supervivientes de la Trata de Personas de las Naciones Unidas y ha sido nominada al Premio Nobel de la Paz". Ganadora del Premio Nobel de la Paz 2018 Esta es su historia. El 15 de agosto de 2014, la vida de Nadia Murad cambi para siempre. Las tropas del Estado Isl mico irrumpieron en su peque a aldea del norte de Irak, donde la minor a yazid llevaba una vida tranquila, y cometieron una masacre. Ejecutaron a hombres y mujeres, entre ellos a su madre y seis de sus hermanos, y los amontonaron en fosas comunes. A Nadia, que ten a veinti n a os, la secuestraron, junto a otras miles de j venes y ni as, y la vendieron como esclava sexual. Los soldados la torturaron y violaron repetidamente durante meses, hasta que una noche logr huir de milagro por las calles de Mosul. As emprendi el largo y peligroso viaje hacia la libertad. De peque a, Nadia, una ni a campesina, jam s hubiera imaginado que un d a hablar a ante las Naciones Unidas ni que estar a nominada al Premio Nobel de la Paz. Nunca hab a pisado Bagdad, ni siquiera hab a visto un avi n. Hoy la historia de Nadia insta al mundo a prestar atenci n al genocidio de su pueblo. Es un llamamiento a la acci n para detener los cr menes del Estado Isl mico, un poderoso testimonio de la fuerza de voluntad humana. Yo ser la ltima es, asimismo, una carta de amor a un pa s desaparecido, a una comunidad vulnerable y a una familia devastada por la guerra. El valor y el testimonio de una joven pueden cambiar el mundo. Para que no se olvide, porque quiere ser la ltima que tenga que vivirla, Nadia cuenta su historia. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2018 Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters lived a quiet life. Nadia had dreams of becoming a history teacher or opening her own beauty salon. On August 15th, 2014, when Nadia was just twenty-one years old, this life ended. 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. Six of Nadia's brothers were killed, and her mother soon after, their bodies swept into mass graves. Nadia was taken to Mosul and forced, along with thousands of other Yazidi girls, into the ISIS slave trade. Nadia would be held captive by several militants and repeatedly raped and beaten. 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. 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 the ongoing genocide in Iraq. 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."

Tildelt Nobels fredspris, 2018! I 2014 var Nadia Murad en 21-år gammel jente som drømte om å bli lærer. Hun bodde i en liten og sammenspleiset landsby i Nord-Irak med moren, brødrene og søstrene sine. Jesdiene, som hun og familien tilhørte, var en religiøs minoritet som levde fredfullt side om side med sine muslimske og kristne naboer, da soldater tilknyttet IS en augustdag i 2014 inntok landsbyen deres. For IS var Jesidiene et enkelt mål, de holdt til i et område av stor strategisk betydning for den militante gruppen, og hadde ingen nevneverdig beskyttelse. Landsbyens befolkning ble samlet sammen på en skole der menn og kvinner ble adskilt. Nadia var vitne til at mennene ble kjørt av gårde i lastebiler og hørte kort tid etter skuddsalver, da de av dem som nektet å konvertere til Islam ble henrettet. Blant dem var seks av Nadias brødre. Selv ble Nadia plukket ut av en IS-soldat som, sammen med sine medsoldater, gjentatte ganger voldtok og banket henne. Denne torturen pågikk i flere dager, inntil Nadia, ved et lykketreff klarte å rømme. Nå forteller Nadia for første hele historien om de dramatiske dagene og flukten som fulgte. Nadia har blitt en sentral stemme i formidlingen av IS’ overgrep og etter at hun omsider klarte å komme seg til Tyskland, gikk fortellingen hennes verden rundt. Hun ble tidlelt Nobels fredspris i 2018, mottok Vaclac Havels menneskerettighetspris, og ble FNs første Goodwill-ambassadør for overlevende av menneskehandel. Den siste jenta er en naturlig fortsettelse av Nadias viktige arbeid i å formidle overgrepene begått i terrorgruppens navn og et nødvendig bidrag i arbeidet med å bekjempe IS og stille dem til ansvar for sine handlinger.