The Girl from Aleppo: Nujeen´s escape from war to freedom

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‘She is our hero. Everyone must read her story. She will inspire you’ Malala Yousafzai

An inspiring tale of a young disabled girl and her escape from the hell of war.

Nujeen Mustafa has cerebral palsy and cannot walk. This did not stop her bravinginconceivable odds to travel in her wheelchair from Syria in search of a new life. Sharingher full story for the first time, Nujeen recounts the details of her childhood and disability, as well as the specifics of her harrowing journey across the Mediterranean to Greece andfinally to Germany to seek an education and the medical treatment she needs.

Nujeen's story has already touched millions and in this book written with Christina Lamb,bestselling co-author of ‘I Am Malala’, she helps to put a human face on a globalemergency.

Trapped in a fifth floor apartment in Aleppo and unable to go to school, she taught herselfto speak English by watching US television. As civil war between Assad's forces and ISISmilitants broke out around them, Nujeen and her family fled first to her native Kobane, thenTurkey before they joined thousands of displaced persons in a journey to Europe andasylum. She wanted to come to Europe, she said, to become an astronaut, to meet theQueen and 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 abeloved 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.

‘The story of Nujeen, amazing young woman and Syrian refugee, reminds the world that refugees, just like others, have aspirations and dreams for peace, education and a better society. Nujeen inspires me to dream without limits’ - MALALA YOUSAFZAI