"The most exciting part! The kids were crying around me and I felt like a crazy person because I was the only one who was smiling the whole time. Sometimes itâs good to be too young to be aware of whatâs going on around you. Maybe I was too young to realise [the danger]."
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Nujeen Mustafa
Nujeen Mustafa (also translated Noujain Mustaffa, Arabic ÙÙŰŹÙÙ Ù Ű”Ű·ÙÙ) is a Kurdish Syrian refugee and activist with cerebral palsy, born in Kobani. She was raised in Kobane, Syria, and gained notoriety after travelling 3,500 miles (5,600 km) by wheelchair, fleeing conflict in the Syrian Civil War, before arriving and resettling in Germany. She was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women in 2018, and her story was featured on the television show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. In 2019 she became the
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