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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 and travelled to Europe in a wheelchair. ‘She is our hero. Everyone must read her story. She will inspire you’ MALALA YOUSAFZAINujeen Mustafa has cerebral palsy and 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 and disability, as well as the specifics of her harrowing journey across the Mediterranean to Greece and finally 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 global emergency.Trapped in a fifth floor apartment in Aleppo and unable to go to school, she taught herself to speak English by watching US television. As civil war between Assad's forces and ISIS militants broke out around them, Nujeen and her family fled first to her native Kobane, then Turkey before they joined thousands of displaced persons in a journey to Europe and asylum. She wanted to come to Europe, she said, to become an astronaut, to meet the Queen 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 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.

The story that is inspiring the world.Read about Nujeen who escaped the hell of war in Aleppo and travelled to Europe in a wheelchair.‘She is our hero. Everyone must read her story. She will inspire you’ MALALA YOUSAFZAINujeen Mustafa has cerebral palsy and 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 and disability, as well as the specifics of her harrowing journey across the Mediterranean to Greece and finally 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 global emergency.Trapped in a fifth floor apartment in Aleppo and unable to go to school, she taught herself to speak English by watching US television. As civil war between Assad''s forces and ISIS militants broke out around them, Nujeen and her family fled first to her native Kobane, then Turkey before they joined thousands of displaced persons in a journey to Europe and asylum. She wanted to come to Europe, she said, to become an astronaut, to meet the Queen 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 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.

Previously published as Nujeen The story that is inspiring the world. Read about Nujeen who escaped the hell of war in Aleppo and travelled to Europe in a wheelchair. ‘She is our hero. Everyone must read her story. She will inspire you’ – MALALA YOUSAFZAINujeen Mustafa has cerebral palsy and 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 and disability, as well as the specifics of her harrowing journey across the Mediterranean to Greece and finally 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 global emergency.Trapped in a fifth floor apartment in Aleppo and unable to go to school, she taught herself to speak English by watching US television. As civil war between Assad's forces and ISIS militants broke out around them, Nujeen and her family fled first to her native Kobane, then Turkey before they joined thousands of displaced persons in a journey to Europe and asylum. She wanted to come to Europe, she said, to become an astronaut, to meet the Queen 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 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.

La galardonada periodista y el coautora del best seller del New York Times I Am Malala, Christina Lamb, ahora narra la inspiradora historia real de otra extraordinaria joven héroe: Nujeen Mustafa, una adolescente que nació con parálisis cerebral, cuyo agotador viaje en una silla de ruedas desde Siria asolada por la guerra a Alemania es una impresionante historia de fortaleza, firmeza y esperanza que pone rostro a la crisis humanitaria más grande de nuestro tiempo, la crisis de refugiados sirios. Para millones de personas alrededor del mundo, Nujeen Mustafa de 16 años, encarna lo mejor del espíritu humano. Confinada a una silla de ruedas a causa de su parálisis cerebral y rechazada por el Sistema escolar formal en Siria debido a su enfermedad, Nujeen aprendió inglés por si misma viendo telenovelas americanas. En 2014 cuando su pequeña ciudad se convirtió en el epicentro de la lucha brutal entre militantes de ISIS y las tropas kurdas apoyadas por Estados Unidos, ella y su familia se vieron obligadas a huir. A pesar de sus limitaciones físicas, Nujeen se embarcó en la ardua caminata a la seguridad y a una vida nueva. La extenuante odisea de 16 meses a pie, en autobús y en barco la llevó a través de Turquía y el Mediterráneo, a Grecia, a través de Macedonia a Serbia y Hungría, y finalmente, a Alemania. Sin embargo, a pesar de las tremendas penurias físicas que padecía, el extraordinario optimism de Nujeen nunca vaciló. Se niega a ceder ante la desesperación o a verse a sí misma como una víctima pasiva, ella mantuvo su cabeza en alto. Como dijo a un reportero de la BBC, «debe luchar para conseguir lo que desea en este mundo». La positividad de Nujeen hace de esta inolvidable historia de una joven decidida a hacer una vida mejor para sí misma de lesctura obligatoria. Narrada por la aclamada corresponsal extranjero británico Christina Lamb, Nujeen es una memoria poderosa y única que da voz a las crisis de refugiados sirios, que nos ayuda a comprender que el mundo debe cambiar y ofrece la inspiración para hacerlo realidad.

Christina Lamb é uma jornalista do Sunday Times e recebeu numerosos prémios pelo desempenho do seu trabalho. Foi correspondente-chefe para o jornal em Washington e em 2009 ganhou o prestigioso Prix Bayeux Calvados pelas suas reportagens no Afeganistão. Foi nomeada correspondente do ano no estrangeiro nos British Press Awards e ganhou o prémio What the Paper Say, da BBC, tendo obtido ambas as distinções já em 2002. Além disso, ganhou o prémio Foreign Press Association pela sua reportagem sobre a guerra contra o terrorismo. É autora dos best-sellers The Africa Houses, Waiting for Allah, The Sewing Circles of Herat, Small Wars Permiting e de Eu, Malala, do qual é coautora com Malala Yousafzai.Esta é uma história sobre as migrações modernas, de uma rapariga que supera a adversidade e foge do inferno da guerra enquanto luta por andar pela primeira vez na sua vida.Nujeen Mustafa tem paralisia cerebral. Isso não a impediu de percorrer numa cadeira de rodas, com a irmã, os mais de 5 000 quilómetros de distância entre a Síria e a Hungria. Abriu caminho até à fronteira húngara graças a ter aprendido inglês sozinha, através das séries americanas que via na televisão síria, com a esperança de conseguir asilo na Alemanha. Ali pôde contar a sua história em colaboração com Christina Lamb, coautora do best-sellerEu, Malala.Esta jovem síria de 16 anos tem a coragem de um leão. Com uma voz forte e extraordinária, Nujeen conta-nos a história real do que é ser uma refugiada, de ter crescido na guerra e ter tido que deixar para trás a sua pátria para depender de outros.