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Farida Khalaf

Biography

Farida Khalaf

Farida Khalaf is from the Yazidi community of the small village of Kocho, Iraq. Farida was 19 years old and preparing for her last year in school when ISIS descended upon her village, and she was sold into slavery. After making a daring escape, she reunited with her mother and her brothers in an Iraqi refugee camp and was granted asylum in Germany in 2015.

Farida Khalaf

Books by Farida Khalaf

The Girl Who Escaped ISIS: This Is My Story
by Farida Khalaf and Andrea C. Hoffmann - Memoir, Nonfiction

In the early summer of 2014, Farida Khalaf was a typical Yazidi teenager living with her parents and three brothers in her village in the mountains of Northern Iraq. In one horrific day, she lost everything: ISIS invaded her village, destroyed her family and sold her into sexual slavery. THE GIRL WHO ESCAPED ISIS is her incredible account of captivity and describes how she defied the odds and escaped a life of torture, in order to share her story with the world.