Live: 1 Billion Followers Summit coverage Yusra Mardini, the star swimmer who fled the Assad regime and competed as a refugee ...

Syrian refugee swimmer Yusra Mardini, who almost drowned at sea fleeing her war-torn country before competing at two Olympics, hopes a new film about her life will help other displaced people.

Mardini’s swimming background enabled her to survive. The boat’s motor began to fail just 30 minutes after departing Turkey and with 20 people crammed inside a space designed for just six ...

The Swimmers is the true story of Yusra and Sara Mardini, two sisters who escape the war in Syria and go on, in Yusra's case, to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

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, ...

Netflix’s upcoming film The Swimmers tells the remarkable true story ... In 2016, two sisters by the names of Sarah and Yusra Mardini competed at the Rio Olympic Games. But that the pair were ...

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The documentary begins when the fictionalized drama ends. Sara spent three years volunteering to save refugees on the same journey that made her so famous, and was suddenly arrested in Aug. 2018 ...