Inspired by true events and the book ‘Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the ... Based on a true story, ‘The Swimmers’ follows sisters Yusra and Sara Mardini (Nathalie and Manal Issa), who are ...

For the first time in a decade, Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini returned this month to Syria, the country whose civil war she ...

Olympic swimmer and Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini was appointed the youngest-ever Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency in April 2017, aged just nineteen. By sharing her inspiring story, ...

Olympic swimmer and Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini, whose story inspired the 2022 Netflix film The Swimmers, returned to Syria ten years after she fled the civil war to Europe. While crossing the ...

Yusra Mardini grew up in Damascus, Syria, in a family passionate about sports. From a young age, swimming was her refuge. Her father, a swimmer himself, introduced her to the sport at an early age.

Olympic swimmer and Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini, actress and activist Sheryl Lee Ralph, and photojournalist Lynsey Addario were among those who were honored at Forbes and Know Your Value’s ...

T Bone Burnett reviews Ian Leslie’s “John & Paul,” which explores the partnership of “two extraordinarily gifted young men.” By T Bone Burnett It’s called “Doggerel” for a reason ...

Mine came flooding back as I read Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud’s “The Cartoonists Club” and Jerry Craft and Kwame Alexander’s “J vs. K.” By James Sturm Missing for decades from ...

It’s a good month for criticism in the literary world, with new books in April exploring everything from early-’00s feminism to modern TV and video games. On the fiction side, there’s a new ...

Sue Roe's new book details how while on holiday with his wife, Picasso installed his mistress in a beach hut - then took up with another! But then came… After Amy Griffin narrowly lost a school ...