The Last Girl

The Islamic State (IS) terrorists made her a sex slave. She was not alone……there were hundreds of thousands of women who were kidnapped by the terrorists. Members of the terror outfit, reportedly, are still using them as sex slaves in Iraq and Syria.

In an intimate memoir of survival, Nadia Murad Basee Taha - a former captive of the IS - tells her harrowing (and also inspiring) story. Murad, born and brought up in Kocho - a small village in northern Iraq, is a member of the Yazidi community.

The Yazidis are monotheists, as they believe in God as creator of the world. And he has placed the world under the care of seven holy beings or angels, the chief of whom is Melek Taus - the Peacock Angel. The Peacock Angel, as world-ruler, causes both good and bad to befall individuals and this ambivalent character is reflected in myths of his own temporary fall from God's favour,...