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 ...

Mardini, whose strong swimming helped save a boatload of Syrians off the coast of Greece, was chosen for the special Olympic team of refugees For a Syrian like 18-year-old Yusra Mardini, Queen Rania ...

After inspiring the world as a member of the first-ever IOC Refugee Olympic Team in Rio in 2016, Yusra Mardini is ready to go for the gold once again in Tokyo. The swimmer appears in a moving new ...

EXCLUSIVE: Kiri creator Jack Thorne, arguably Britain’s most prolific film and TV writer, has already set up his next project – penning the story of Syrian swimmer Yusra Mardini for Working Title. I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The film will tell the true story of Mardini, an Olympic swimmer and Syrian refugee who made headlines when the tale of her ...

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 ...

The Swimmers is based on the real-life experiences of the Mardini sisters, who were forced to leave their home in Syria in 2015 because of the civil war. They traveled to Germany via Lebanon, Turkey ...

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.

Yusra Mardini made headlines in 2016 when she competed in the Rio Olympics for the Refugee Olympic Team (ROT), and now filmmaker Sally El Hosaini is telling the story of how Mardini and her sister ...

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 ...

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, ...