Canada School Faces Backlash After Ditching Event With Ex-Daesh Sex Slave Over ‘Islamophobia' Fears

Thousands of Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking minority, were killed or enslaved when Daesh overran northern Iraq in 2014. In her memoir, Nadia Murad describes her personal ordeal. In 2018, she and Congolese pastor Denis Mukwege were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.