What is it about?
This is Chapter 5 in my first research monograph, entitled New Forms of Self-Narration: Young Women, Life Writing and Human Rights (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). This chapter is the perfect companion to the preceding one, as it features the case of a Syrian girl who also left the country under strenuous circumstances and relocated as refugee elsewhere.
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Why is it important?
Born with cerebral palsy, Nujeen Mustafa’s journey into Europe was featured by mainstream media. But no attempt had been made to analyze her life writing as testimony, looking at her memoir and public talks side by side as activism.
Perspectives
Both life-writing projects, Bana Alabed's and Nujeen Mustafa's, may be read alongside to gauge the strategies at work by these two activists whose competing title as “the girl from Aleppo” is at stake. Instead of precluding each other’s testimony, their voices denounce the situation in Syria and the individual and collective ramifications of leaving their country behind.
Dr Ana Belén Martínez García
Universidad de Navarra
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This page is a summary of: Nujeen Mustafa: Syrian Refugee Defying Labels on TEDx, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-46420-2_6.
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