THE GIRL WHO ESCAPED ISIS: This Is My Story By Farida Khalaf and Andrea C. Hoffman. Translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch (Atria) By Mohammad Ali Salih, The Washington Post When Islamic State fighters swept into the Yazidi villiage of Kocho in Iraq in the summer of 2014, teenager Farida Khalaf was kidnapped along with her sister and about 80 other Yazidi girls.