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The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State, Nadia Murad (Penguin Random House, 2017).

urad, who is Yazidi, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 for her work on behalf of sexual violence survivors around the world. At 21, she was kidnapped from her home village in Iran by Islamic terrorists, who then sold her into slavery. She escaped with the help of a local family and has since gone on

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