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 ...

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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.

Yusra Mardini is a hopeful for the Rio Olympic Games this year, having fled Damascus only seven months ago. She's also got an incredible life philosophy. Story by Jacob Shamsian and editing by ...

For the first time in a decade, Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini returned this month to Syria, the country whose civil war she fled in 2015. Her journey away from her homeland, which led to two ...

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 ...

Netflix’s upcoming film The Swimmers tells the remarkable true story of two Syrian sisters who fled their war-torn home in Damascus and went on to compete in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

Last year in the European Union, 104 people were arrested for helping refugees—more than in any other year on record—but Sara Mardini’s story may best illustrate just how fraught the issue ...