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Het meisje dat van IS won. Ontvoerd, verkocht, ontsnapt
Farida Khalaf, Andrea C. Hoffmann
4.35 AVERAGE
98 reviews for:
Het meisje dat van IS won. Ontvoerd, verkocht, ontsnapt
Farida Khalaf, Andrea C. Hoffmann
4.35 AVERAGE
Mogla bih cijelu knjigu opisati samo citatima koji izražavaju okrutnost, ispiranje mozga i položaj žene u nečijoj osobnoj ideologiji i koristoljublju. Čitajući ovu knjigu shvaćate kako se i ovdje ratuje isključivo zbog novca, a ne vjere, koja je u ovom slučaju samo paravan. Faridina priča stravičan je prikaz jednog odnosa prema ženama i krivoj interpretaciji vjere. Citat koji može zaokružiti cijelu knjigu, po mom mišljenju, je sljedeći: ''Doktore, koliko će trebati da opet postane upotrebljiva?''.
This book was amazing, the amazing story of how a young Yazidi girl fought for her own life in the time of turmoil a book full of courage and love.
این دومین کتابي هست که راجع به کثافت کاري‌هاي داعش میخونم و به جز یك سري ماجراهاي خانوادگي و اتفاقات خاص مربوط به هر اسیر، چیز جدیدي برام نداشت. یعني اصولا چه چیزي رو باید از زندگینامه دریافت کرد، به جز همون جزییات مهم و اصلي؟ و گرنه که کثافت و لجن بودن داعش بر همه واضحه.
من این دو ستاره رو به شخصِ نویسنده دادم، به خودِ اسیر که با شجاعتش تونست انقدر زیبا جون خودش و پنج نفر دیگه رو هم نجات بده، انقدر زیبا تونست از کشورش بگذره و از تمام خیانت هایي که فکر میکرد به خودش و کشورش و روحش شده، گذشت و یك زندگي جدید رو همراه با خانواده اش شروع کرد، به روانيِ نوشتن روایتش، که اصلا هم آسون نیست.
من این دو ستاره رو به شخصِ نویسنده دادم، به خودِ اسیر که با شجاعتش تونست انقدر زیبا جون خودش و پنج نفر دیگه رو هم نجات بده، انقدر زیبا تونست از کشورش بگذره و از تمام خیانت هایي که فکر میکرد به خودش و کشورش و روحش شده، گذشت و یك زندگي جدید رو همراه با خانواده اش شروع کرد، به روانيِ نوشتن روایتش، که اصلا هم آسون نیست.
Surullinen ja järkyttävä, mutta auttaa ymmärtämään maailmanmenoa aivan uudella tavalla.
I received a free copy from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
I cannot rate this. I cannot possibly rate a young girl's account of her life, especially not with everything that she has gone through. But I do want to say that it is an incredibly valuable read, it tells you so much about what the poor people affected by ISIS have to go through and despite not being a light and easy read - (obviously) it has more or less detailed accounts of violence against women and rape - it is a very important book and should definitely be widely read.
The Girl Who Beat ISIS: Farida's Story comes out July 7, 2016.
I cannot rate this. I cannot possibly rate a young girl's account of her life, especially not with everything that she has gone through. But I do want to say that it is an incredibly valuable read, it tells you so much about what the poor people affected by ISIS have to go through and despite not being a light and easy read - (obviously) it has more or less detailed accounts of violence against women and rape - it is a very important book and should definitely be widely read.
The Girl Who Beat ISIS: Farida's Story comes out July 7, 2016.
I received an ARC of this book to read & review via Goodreads Giveaways.
Farida is an 18-year-old girl living a normal life in a small village in Iraq when suddenly her life is changed forever. ISIS attack her village and she is separated from her parents and four brothers, and sold into a life of slavery where she is repeatedly raped and beaten. This book is the true story of Farida's struggle to escape her captors and get back to her family.
Wow. This book shocked me in so many ways and was so emotional to read. It's just horrific to realise that this kind of thing is still happening in the world today. Farida is such a brave and inspirational woman and I applaud her for sharing her story with the world.
Everybody should read this to gain a better understanding of what is happening in the middle-east while we are all living our comfortable western lives.
Thank you for sharing your story Farida and I wish you happiness for you and your family in the future.
Farida is an 18-year-old girl living a normal life in a small village in Iraq when suddenly her life is changed forever. ISIS attack her village and she is separated from her parents and four brothers, and sold into a life of slavery where she is repeatedly raped and beaten. This book is the true story of Farida's struggle to escape her captors and get back to her family.
Wow. This book shocked me in so many ways and was so emotional to read. It's just horrific to realise that this kind of thing is still happening in the world today. Farida is such a brave and inspirational woman and I applaud her for sharing her story with the world.
Everybody should read this to gain a better understanding of what is happening in the middle-east while we are all living our comfortable western lives.
Thank you for sharing your story Farida and I wish you happiness for you and your family in the future.
The Girl Who Beat Isis is a factual retelling of Farida Khalaf's horrific story based on a series of interviews Andrea Hoffman conducted with her in a refugee camp in Iraq. It is one of the most difficult and upsetting books I have ever read. It is also one of the most important.
The book begins in 2014, Farida lives in a small village in northern Iraq with her parents and four brothers. As Kurdish Yazidis they maintain friendly and commercial relations with neighbouring Muslim Arabs but it's still an uneasy relationship, mostly due to a religious misunderstanding that has meant Yazidis are believed to be devil worshippers. However, life for Farida is good. Although her father has taught her how to use a Kalashnikov in case she ever needs to help defend her family, it seems that as she enters her final year of school, and with a gift for Mathematics, a bright future is assured. She hopes to train to become a Maths teacher but in 2014 the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Daesh, or more usually in western countries, Isis) were just beginning their reign of terror. As Isis soldiers pour into Iraq from neighbouring Syria, Farida and her family are at first convinced the Iraqi army and then the Peshmerga (Kurdish militia) will successfully push them back over the border. That swiftly proves to be a false hope and when Isis comes to Farida's village they are ruthlessly and terrifyingly efficient in gaining control. After refusing to convert to Islam, the men in the village are removed from the camp, the gunfire heard moments later an ominous suggestion as to their probable fate. Then all the older girls and young women - including Farida - are taken away from their families too. What follows is a horrific account of the abuse, both sexual and physical endured at the hands of Isis soldiers by young girls like Farida and her friend, Evin who is taken alongside her. They become sex slaves, sold alongside scores of other women and girls at brutal, dehumanising markets. Despite being bought and sold several times, being raped by her successive 'owners' and enduring vicious beatings, Farida continues to resist as best as she can, eventually managing to escape into the Syrian desert with a small group of other Yazidi girls.
The Girl Who Beat Isis is the book that makes the statistics become personal. Only recently human rights lawyer Amal Clooney spoke about the Yazidi genocide. Since 2014 over 5,000 Yazidis have been killed, 5,000-7,000 Yazidi women been abducted, and approximately 500,000 Yazidi civilians are now refugees. Farida's story is a graphic account of what these people are being subjected to, the violence and oppression are starkly described here. Her courage in resisting her captors and surviving despite the worst atrocities is remarkable. It reminds us that despite all the political discourse about refugees, at the heart of this war are ordinary people whose lives have been changed forever and who deserve our every assistance.
This will not be a book you enjoy, it will make you angry, it will make you cry, it will make you sick to your very core. And that is why you need to read it.
Many thanks to the publishers for my copy received through Netgalley in return for this review.
The book begins in 2014, Farida lives in a small village in northern Iraq with her parents and four brothers. As Kurdish Yazidis they maintain friendly and commercial relations with neighbouring Muslim Arabs but it's still an uneasy relationship, mostly due to a religious misunderstanding that has meant Yazidis are believed to be devil worshippers. However, life for Farida is good. Although her father has taught her how to use a Kalashnikov in case she ever needs to help defend her family, it seems that as she enters her final year of school, and with a gift for Mathematics, a bright future is assured. She hopes to train to become a Maths teacher but in 2014 the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Daesh, or more usually in western countries, Isis) were just beginning their reign of terror. As Isis soldiers pour into Iraq from neighbouring Syria, Farida and her family are at first convinced the Iraqi army and then the Peshmerga (Kurdish militia) will successfully push them back over the border. That swiftly proves to be a false hope and when Isis comes to Farida's village they are ruthlessly and terrifyingly efficient in gaining control. After refusing to convert to Islam, the men in the village are removed from the camp, the gunfire heard moments later an ominous suggestion as to their probable fate. Then all the older girls and young women - including Farida - are taken away from their families too. What follows is a horrific account of the abuse, both sexual and physical endured at the hands of Isis soldiers by young girls like Farida and her friend, Evin who is taken alongside her. They become sex slaves, sold alongside scores of other women and girls at brutal, dehumanising markets. Despite being bought and sold several times, being raped by her successive 'owners' and enduring vicious beatings, Farida continues to resist as best as she can, eventually managing to escape into the Syrian desert with a small group of other Yazidi girls.
The Girl Who Beat Isis is the book that makes the statistics become personal. Only recently human rights lawyer Amal Clooney spoke about the Yazidi genocide. Since 2014 over 5,000 Yazidis have been killed, 5,000-7,000 Yazidi women been abducted, and approximately 500,000 Yazidi civilians are now refugees. Farida's story is a graphic account of what these people are being subjected to, the violence and oppression are starkly described here. Her courage in resisting her captors and surviving despite the worst atrocities is remarkable. It reminds us that despite all the political discourse about refugees, at the heart of this war are ordinary people whose lives have been changed forever and who deserve our every assistance.
This will not be a book you enjoy, it will make you angry, it will make you cry, it will make you sick to your very core. And that is why you need to read it.
Many thanks to the publishers for my copy received through Netgalley in return for this review.
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Content Warnings
Minor: Sexual assault
I don't even know what to say about this book.
It is an absolutely amazing and tragic story of one girl and her fellow prisoners as well as their families, in their bid to escape from captivity from ISIS.
It's utterly heartbreaking and it was a real struggle to read but it is definitely a book that should be read by everyone. The subject and the content is so important and sheds huge amounts of light on what really does go on in these war zones and behind the scenes of what we hear on the news channels.
I received a copy of this book via netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
It is an absolutely amazing and tragic story of one girl and her fellow prisoners as well as their families, in their bid to escape from captivity from ISIS.
It's utterly heartbreaking and it was a real struggle to read but it is definitely a book that should be read by everyone. The subject and the content is so important and sheds huge amounts of light on what really does go on in these war zones and behind the scenes of what we hear on the news channels.
I received a copy of this book via netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
I got this book through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
Watch my video review here.
Nonfiction book about the war ISIS is raging in Kurdistan, Iraq, Syria etc.
The story follows Farida (pseudonym), a 18 year old girl from Iraq. She lives together with her family in Kocho, a small town, goes to school and has a laugh with her friends until ISIS starts roaming around in those parts of the country. Her dad, who is a soldier, consoles her and says it will be alright, but soon enough ISIS comes to Kocho as well.
We follow Farida's life from this point on as she is held captive by ISIS men. We get to know the inner workings of these occupations through the eyes of this young woman who, fortunately, survives it and is able to start a new life in Germany.
We follow Farida's life during the months she is held captive. This means we follow her through violence, rape, being sold as someone else's 'property' and so on.. She talks in great detail about the precise circumstances she and other girls had to live in, how they were treated and sold again to someone else when the men didn't think them interesting enough anymore.
At the same time, of course, we are made very much aware of Farida's feelings, as this is a story told in retrospect. She doesn't know where her family is and doubts and worries eat her up inside. Differences in religion are 'forced out of them', and though the girls we follow don't cave, it is very difficult to see that all this is done 'in the name of religion'. This is not a story, this is actually happening..
I think that realization is the most important and the most heavy thing to face while reading this book: this is not a story, just because it's a fictional name.
Farida represents just one of the many, many stories about victims of ISIS: if not the deaths, how about the lives that were ruined? Some of them are able to start over again in Europe, but I honestly cannot imagine how hard this must be for them. I try to, but I can't.
There are no downsides to this book that I can name. It describes Farida's journey in a clear narrative which is detailed enough, but to the point at the same time.
If you are a sensitive reader, beware though: TRIGGER WARNING. Violence and rape are repeatedly talked about in this story, though not in too much detail. You will be told what happens, but no graphic details will be added to that effect.
Overall, this story really opened my eyes and made me better able to empathize what is happening to a lot of people in the world at this time.
I gave The Girl Who Beat Isis 5/5 stars.
Watch my video review here.
Nonfiction book about the war ISIS is raging in Kurdistan, Iraq, Syria etc.
The story follows Farida (pseudonym), a 18 year old girl from Iraq. She lives together with her family in Kocho, a small town, goes to school and has a laugh with her friends until ISIS starts roaming around in those parts of the country. Her dad, who is a soldier, consoles her and says it will be alright, but soon enough ISIS comes to Kocho as well.
We follow Farida's life from this point on as she is held captive by ISIS men. We get to know the inner workings of these occupations through the eyes of this young woman who, fortunately, survives it and is able to start a new life in Germany.
We follow Farida's life during the months she is held captive. This means we follow her through violence, rape, being sold as someone else's 'property' and so on.. She talks in great detail about the precise circumstances she and other girls had to live in, how they were treated and sold again to someone else when the men didn't think them interesting enough anymore.
At the same time, of course, we are made very much aware of Farida's feelings, as this is a story told in retrospect. She doesn't know where her family is and doubts and worries eat her up inside. Differences in religion are 'forced out of them', and though the girls we follow don't cave, it is very difficult to see that all this is done 'in the name of religion'. This is not a story, this is actually happening..
I think that realization is the most important and the most heavy thing to face while reading this book: this is not a story, just because it's a fictional name.
Farida represents just one of the many, many stories about victims of ISIS: if not the deaths, how about the lives that were ruined? Some of them are able to start over again in Europe, but I honestly cannot imagine how hard this must be for them. I try to, but I can't.
There are no downsides to this book that I can name. It describes Farida's journey in a clear narrative which is detailed enough, but to the point at the same time.
If you are a sensitive reader, beware though: TRIGGER WARNING. Violence and rape are repeatedly talked about in this story, though not in too much detail. You will be told what happens, but no graphic details will be added to that effect.
Overall, this story really opened my eyes and made me better able to empathize what is happening to a lot of people in the world at this time.
I gave The Girl Who Beat Isis 5/5 stars.