Nadia Murad
Interview
Telephone interview, October 2018
“I hope that it will help bring justice for those women who suffered from sexual violence”
Nadia Murad was in Cambridge, Massachusetts when she learned that she had been awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. Our conversation with her starts in English but she then moves into Kurdish, with sequential translation provided by her fiancé, Abid Shamdeen.
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