Life as a slave under the hellish rule of Isis
Nadia Murad has put a human face on one of the world’s most complicated and intractable conflicts
Until the morning of August 3, 2014, Nadia Murad had never even heard of Islamic State. She was then 21 years old, a confident young woman living with her widowed mother and ten siblings in the northern Iraqi village of Kocho. She loved fashion, make-up and dreamed of eventually running her own beauty salon.
On that day, however, Murad’s life took a very different direction. She was taken prisoner by Isis militants and ...
