Nemam Ghafouri, Doctor Who Aided Yazidis in Iraq, Dies at 52
Dr. Ghafouri helped survivors of an ISIS genocide and reunited formerly enslaved women with children taken from them. She died of Covid-19.
Dr. Nemam Ghafouri in 2019 at a clinic that her aid organization established in a camp for displaced Yazidis in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.Credit.Jane Arraf
April 7, 2021Updated 1:46 p.m. ET
That Nemam Ghafouri was born in a cave might be one of the least remarkable things about her. It was the 1960s, and her mother went into labor in the mountains of what is now the Kurdistan region of Iraq as she was fleeing with her other children from Iraqi government forces.