Nadia Murad
Nadia Murad Basee Taha (Sorani Kurdish: نادیە موراد باسی تەھا; Arabic: نادية مراد باسي طه; born 1993) is a German-based Yazidi-Iraqi human rights activist. She was kidnapped and held by the Islamic State for three months. In 2018, she and Denis Mukwege were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict." She is the first Iraqi to be awarded a Nobel prize.
Murad is the founder of Nadia's Initiative, an organization dedicated to "helping women and children victimized by genocide, mass atrocities, and human trafficking to heal and rebuild their lives and communities."
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روائية وصحافية مغربية مقيمة بإسطنبول. وُلدت بمدينة الحسيمة شمال المغرب عام 1993. عمِلت في مجال الصحافة المكتوبة والرقمية داخل وخارج المغرب منذ عام 2014.
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