The Girl From Aleppo: Nujeen's Escape From War To Freedom

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Previously published as Nujeen The story that is inspiring the world Read about Nujeen who escaped the hell of war in Aleppo & travelled to Europe in a wheelchair She is our hero Everyone must read her story She will inspire you'
- MALALA YOUSAFZAI Nujeen Mustafa has cerebral palsy & cannot walk This did not stop her braving inconceivable odds to travel in her wheelchair from Syria in search of a new life Sharing her full story for the first time Nujeen recounts the details of her childhood & disability as well as the specifics of her harrowing journey across the Mediterranean to Greece & finally to Germany to seek an education & the medical treatment she needs Nujeen's story has already touched millions & in this book written with Christina Lamb bestselling co-author of I Am Malala' she helps to put a human face on a global emergency Trapped in a fifth floor apartment in Aleppo & unable to go to school she taught herself to speak English by watching US television As civil war between Assad's forces & ISIS militants broke out around them Nujeen & her family fled first to her native Kobane then Turkey before they joined thousands of displaced persons in a journey to Europe & asylum She wanted to come to Europe she said to become an astronaut to meet the Queen & to learn how to walk In her strong positive voice Nujeen tells the story of what it is really like to be a refugee to have grown up in a dictatorship only for your life to be blighted by war; to have left a beloved homeland to become dependent on others It is the story of our times told through the incredible bravery of one remarkable girl determined to keep smiling