Farida Khalaf

Farida Khalaf is the pen name of a Yazidi woman who was abducted by ISIS as teenager in 2014 and sold into slavery as part of the Yazidi genocide. ISIS moved through northwestern Iraq and were the perpetrators of a genocide against 400,000 Yazidis, kidnapping approximately 7,000 Yazidi women and girls and forcing them to convert to Islam and were used for sexual slavery and sex trafficking. Yazidi men were murdered and Yazidi boys were enslaved to convert and become ISIS soldiers. Khalaf escaped to a refugee camp, and in 2016 published a book about her experience, The Girl Who Beat ISIS: My Story by Farida Khalaf and Andrea C. Hoffman. The U.S. version is titled: The Girl Who Escaped ISIS This Is My Story. The book co-authored by German writer Andrea C. Hoffmann, and translated to English by Jamie Bulloch.