As 2018 comes to a close, Yazidi human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad continues her relentless efforts advocating for her people, an ethnic minority in Iraq targeted for ...
She wore a scarf in our first interview because she did not want you to know her. She was a humble 21-year-old from a poor farm family. Her dream was to own a hair salon in her village of nearly 2,000 ...
“On Her Shoulders” is an intimate, empathetic documentary, made with discretion and power, about a 23-year-old woman who less than a month ago burst onto front pages worldwide when she won the Nobel ...
Nadia Murad once dreamed of opening a salon in her home village in Northern Iraq. The salon would be a place where Iraqi women could feel beautiful and special. But at the age of 21, Murad’s dreams ...
A tale of rape and massacre will move the world only so much. Nadia Murad has learned this. There are miles of mass graves, millions of refugees. Only some are heard. But Murad, whose power comes from ...
At this Monday's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, the cameras briefly took their focus off of the year's two laureates, Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, to document another guest of note: ...
Pope Francis on Thursday met with Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad, a human rights advocate who has been speaking out on behalf of women and girls in Iraq and Afghanistan. Murad’s meeting with the ...
On November 10th, “On Her Shoulders” screened at America’s largest documentary festival, DOC NYC. The film follows 23-year-old Nadia Murad’s journey from a survivor of the 2014 Yazidi genocide by ISIS ...
Nadia Murad is a 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner for her work to eliminate sexual violence as a weapon of war. In 2014, she was taken captive by ISIS for three months before escaping. She is the author ...
“On Her Shoulders” is an intimate, empathetic documentary, made with discretion and power, about a 23-year-old woman who less than a month ago burst onto front pages worldwide when she won the Nobel ...