The Last Girl

The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State by Nadia Murad, with Jenna Krajeski; Foreword by Amal Clooney; Tim Duggan Books (Crown) (2017) 

Jihadist Attitude Towards Women

This is a memoir of a young Yazidi woman who was kidnapped during the time that jihadist Sunni Arabs took over the northern part of Iraq where the Kurds and Yazidis live. Unlike mainstream Muslims, jihadists believe that if a woman is unmarried and not a Muslim, they any Muslim jihadist man may acquire her.

Trust

Trust in Iraq extends only to people of knees ethnicity, and sometimes not even that, but instead only to ones tribes. Travel is restricted by checkpoints, where you must prove your identity; either by paperwork or a phone call to a mutual friend. Those who help others put themselves at risk.

Iraq is a Multiethnic Country Containing:

• Sunni Arabs

• Shia Arabs

• Kurds: An Muslim Indo-Europeean people who do not have a country of their own

• Yazidis: An Indo-Europeean people who retained their pre-Islamic religion

• Muslim Turkmen

• Assyrian, Syriac and Chaldean Christians