Nujeen. One Girl's Incredible Journey From War-torn Syria In A Wheelchair

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: William Collins
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2016
Edition: First Edition

Description: 289 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. Nujeen Has Cerebral Palsy And Cannot Walk. Yet She Struggled In A Wheel Chair From Syria In Search Of A New Life.

Publishers Description: ‘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 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.Nujeens 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 Assads 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.

ISBN: 9780008192822