Nafiseh Kohnavard’s evolution

Kohnavard’s work has included human interest stories of people affected by conflicts.[2] Kohnavard told the story of Yazidi women who had children fathered by their ISIS captors in a documentary for BBC Persian and World Service’s OUR WORLD program called “Yazidi’s Secret Children”, produced and directed by Katie Arnold. In 2020 the film won the One World Media Award’s best TV documentary. The documentary is about Yazidi women who had been taken by IS, forced into sexual slavery, and who gave birth to children conceived of rape. After gaining their freedom, they faced a heartbreaking choice: either to leave their IS-fathered children behind and to return home, or else to keep their children and leave the Yazidi community.