A biography for Nadia Muradhasn’t been written yet.
“It never gets easier to tell your story. Each time you speak it, you relive it.”
“There were 2 million civilians in Mosul and 2,000 kidnapped girls there. There were thousands of families in Mosul that could have helped other girls, but they didn't. Women had to wear veils in Mosul. It would have been easy to smuggle Yazidi women out.”
“I lived my childhood as a village girl in Kojo, south of Sinjar region. I did not know anything about the Nobel Peace Prize.”
“Every time I tell my story, I feel that I am taking some power away from the terrorists.”
“I want to create a family with my fiance and be able to live a simple life and just be safe.”
“I was a farmer, a villager, and I was born to be such.”
“What happened in Iraq and Syria was that the world remained silent as ISIS expanded.”
“It was my dream to have a beauty parlour in our village and to live near my family in Sinjar.”
“We have to work together in order to prove that genocidal campaigns will fail and lead to accountability of the perpetrators and bring justice for survivors.”
“Whenever Daesh loses territory, of course this brings me happiness.”
“Deciding to be honest was one of the hardest decisions I have ever made, and also the most important.”
“The Yazidi people, they are very - they just want a simple life.”
“The world has only one border. It is called humanity. The differences between us are small compared to our shared humanity. Put humans first.”
“The hope of ISIS was to break the Yazidi community. But for survivors especially, going back to their lives and getting married and making a life and working, it's basically making sure ISIS did not succeed.”
“Maybe people will remember me for being a stylist, not a survivor.”
“I think there was a reason God helped me escape... and I don't take my freedom for granted.”
“It is unacceptable for a woman to be rescued from captivity from ISIS to come and not have a place to live, to be put in refugee camps.”
“I will go back to my life when women in captivity go back to their lives, when my community has a place, when I see people accountable for their crimes.”
“What is the fate of my people in Kurdistan and Sinjar Mountain? What must be done so Yazidis can have their rights?”
“Yazidis have gone through traumatic experiences, and without education, there is no future for the youth.”