During her visit in Luxembourg with Handicap International, our library has the honor to welcome Nujeen Mustafa. During a Lunch Talk she is going to talk about her journey, written down in the book ” The Girl from Aleppo: Nujeen’s Escape from War to Freedom ” .
When: Friday 11th of October 2024, from 12:30 – 14:00
Where: CITIM, 136-138 Rue Adolphe Fischer, L-1521 Luxembourg
Registration: citim@astm.lu / +352 400 427 31
Lunch in form of a Sandwich is offered by our Library.
Nujeen Mustafa is a disability and refugees rights advocate born in Syria. Due to bombing and shelling of her hometown Aleppo, she first flew to Turkey and a year later, at the age of 16, together with her sister to Germany in her wheelchair. During their flight they crossed the Mediterranean to Greece by boot and crossed many country borders by bus, train and foot, with her sister pushing her wheelchair. She started attending school in Germany, as the infrastructure in Syria and Turkey were not aligned for people with disabilities. Today she still resides in Germany, near Cologne, and is about to finish high school with her A-levels. She speaks Kurdish, Arabic, German as well as English, which she taught herself in Syria watching American soap operas.
See one of her TEDx Talks here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3r4gnSouqQ
