What if the most powerful source of inner power you'll ever tap into isn't a guru or an app but one hundred women who refused to break?On the days you doubt yourself, Women to Remember hands you proof that courage is not magic, it is psychology in motion and a roadmap for unshakable mental strength in your own life. From Nobel laureates and scientists to queens, activists, artists, and rebels, Farida Khalaf shows how real women have used their minds under pressure and ...

Our world as it once wasIn August 2014, Farida was, like any ordinary teenager, enjoying the last days of summer before her final year at school. However, her peaceful mountain village in northern Iraq was an ISIS target as their genocide against the Yazidi people began.The catastropheISIS murdered the men and boys in the village, including Farida's father and brother, and took the women hostage. Farida was one of ...

Farida Khalaf tem uma historica para contar. E a historia de uma rapariga cuja vida foi cortada ao meio. E a historia de um antes e um depois. Em agosto de 2014, Farida tinha 17 anos, uma familia numerosa e uma melhor amiga com quem partilhava segredos e sonhos de futuro. Na sua aldeia no Iraque reinava a paz. Mas isso era "antes". O "depois" impos- se com a brutalidade de um pesadelo. Decorria ainda o mes de agosto quando a sua aldeia, n?o-muculmana, foi ocupada pelo Estado Islamico. Os a...

Farida Abbas ist 18 Jahre alt, als der IS im August 2014 ihr Dorf im irakischen Sinjar-Gebirge überfällt. Die Terroristen treiben die Männer und Jungen des Dorfes zusammen und töten sie. Die Mädchen und Frauen nehmen sie mit. Vier Monate lebt Farida in der Hölle auf Erden: Sie wird als Sklavin von Mann zu Mann verkauft, vergewaltigt, fast totgeschlagen. Doch sie überlebt und entwickelt in der Folge den ungeheuren Mut, sich ihren Peinigern zu widersetzen. Zusammen mit sechs anderen Mädchen,...

In August 2014, Farida, like any ordinary teenage girl, was enjoying the summer holidays before her last year at school. But Farida lived in the mountains of northern Iraq — and what happened next was unimaginable. Her village was an ISIS target.ISIS jihadists murdered the men and boys, including her father and brother, before taking Farida and the other women prisoner. This is the story of what happened to Farida after she was captured: the beatings, the rapes, the markets where I...

Shame, Gender Violence, and Ethics: Terrors of Injustice draws from contemporary, concrete atrocities against women and marginalized communities to re-conceptualize moral shame and to set moral shame apart from dimensions of subordination, humiliation, and disgrace. The interdisciplinary collection starts with a contribution from a Yazidi-survivor of genocidal and sexual violence, whose case brings together core themes: gender, ethnic and religious identity, and violence and shame. Further...

Named a “Best Book of the Year” by New York Post“Farida Khalaf’s story is harrowing but crucial—especially when it comes to understanding what ISIS actually is and does.” —Glamour“As gripping as it is appalling…a compelling testament to the suffering of ordinary people caught up in violence far beyond their control—and to the particularly terrible price it exacts from women.” —The Guardian...

Farida Khalaf ist 18 Jahre alt, als der IS im August 2014 ihr Dorf im irakischen Sinjar-Gebirge überfällt. Die Terroristen treiben die Männer und Jungen des Dorfes zusammen und töten sie. Die Mädchen und Frauen nehmen sie mit. Vier Monate lebt Farida in der Hölle auf Erden: Sie wird als Sklavin von Mann zu Mann verkauft, vergewaltigt, fast totgeschlagen. Doch sie überlebt und entwickelt in der Folge den ungeheuren Mut, sich ihren Peinigern zu widersetzen. Zusammen mit sechs anderen Mädchen...

Pohjois-irakilainen Farida Abbas oli seitsentoistavuotias, kun Isis-terroristit hyökkäsivät hänen kyläänsä elokuussa 2014. Kylän miehet ja pojat tapettiin. Tytöt ja nuoret naiset otettiin vangeiksi.Kuukausien ajan Farida eli maanpäällisessä helvetissä. Häntä kaupattiin orjamarkkinoilla, luovutettiin mieheltä toiselle, hakattiin ja raiskattiin.Farida nousi rohkeasti vangitsijoitaan vastaan. Lopulta hän johti kuusi muuta tyttöä kanssaan autiomaan halki pakomatkalle, joka epäon...