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

Mardini trained as a swimmer from a young age, representing Syria internationally in her early teens. Her home was destroyed in 2015, at which point she, sister Sarah Mardini and other family ...

Olympic swimmer and Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini, whose story inspired the ... she not only survived but along with her sister heroically saved the lives of everyone onboard her dinghy.

Anyone who watched the 2022 film The Swimmers will know Yusra Mardini’s story. She and her sister, Sara, fled war-torn Syria ...

Olympic swimmer and Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini, actress and activist Sheryl Lee Ralph, and photojournalist Lynsey Addario ...

Olympic swimmer and Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini was appointed the youngest-ever Goodwill ... In August 2015, Yusra fled the Syrian Civil War with her sister Sara. She made the treacherous journey to ...

Anyone who watched the 2022 film The Swimmers will know Yusra Mardini’s story. She and her sister, Sara, fled war-torn Syria and made the treacherous journey across the Aegean from Turkey to Lesbos.

Yursra Mardini is an Olympic swimmer, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, and the subject of the critically-acclaimed Netflix film, The Swimmers. Born and raised in Damascus, Syria, Yusra and her sister ...

Syrian Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini on returning to her demolished home Mardini and her sister Sarah fled Syria in 2015, and went on to compete in the refugee team in the 2016 Rio Olympics. She told ...

‘The Swimmers’ follows sisters Yusra and Sara Mardini (Nathalie and Manal Issa), who are passionate about swimming and dream of competing at the highest level. Living in war-torn Syria, their lives ...