Yusra and Sara Mardini saved a boatful of fellow asylum seekers from drowning in the Aegean Sea. Now a Netflix movie tells ...

ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke with The Swimmers director Sally El Hosaini and the subject of the film Yusra Mardini about the importance of telling this true story through Netflix. The ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Netflix just dropped a new movie that dives into the difficult journey of sisters Yusra and Sara ...

Yusra Mardini stepped on a plane back to Germany for the holidays overwhelmed by emotion. News had just filtered through from Syria of the overthrow of the country’s longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad.

As a teenager in 2015, Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini fled the Syrian civil war, a trip that required her to swim three hours through the Aegean Sea. In the days before the opening ceremony for the ...

The Swimmers tells the true story of two sisters' hellish journey from war-torn Syria to Olympic success. It's no fairy tale, say its makers Charlotte Lytton is a freelance journalist who has worked ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today announced the appointment of Syrian refugee and Olympic athlete Yusra Mardini as a Goodwill Ambassador. Since her selection for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, Mardini ...

When we think of elite athletes, hard work and struggle are the often things we take for granted in their stories. Grueling hours of training, traveling to faraway places to compete, and pushing ...

Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...

Prominent Egyptian actress Yusra has been witnessing ongoing success for her achievements in the acting world, whether on the big screen or on television. The actress has won many awards for her roles ...

Egyptian prominent actress Yusra has announced that she will be taking part in the production of a new film “I3tirafat Zawja” (A Wife’s Confessions), which had faced so many problems in its making.