Christina Lamb

The Girl From Aleppo: Nujeen’s Escape From War to Freedom


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       Copyright

      William Collins

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins 2016

      Copyright © Christina Lamb and Nujeen Mustafa 2016, 2017

      Christina Lamb and Nujeen Mustafa assert the moral right to be identified as the authors of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      Cover photograph © STR/AFP/Getty Images

      Interior images from the Mustafa family collection unless otherwise attributed

      Map by Martin Brown

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      Source ISBN: 9780008192815

      Ebook Edition © September 2016, 2017 ISBN: 9780008192792

      Version: 2017-02-23

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       Epigraph

      I see Earth! It is so beautiful.

      Yuri Gagarin, first man in space, 1961

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Map

       Epigraph

      

      

       Prologue: The Crossing

      

      

       PART ONE: To Lose a Country

      

      

       1 Foreigners in Our Own Land

       6 A War of Our Own

       7 Gone with the Wind

       8 Forgive Me, Syria

      

      

       PART TWO: The Journey

      

      

       9 Widen Your World

       10 In Search of a People Smuggler

       11 The Route of Death

       12 Freedom like a Normal Person

       13 Through the Beautiful Gate

       14 Hungary, Open the Door!

       15 The Hardest Day

       16 The Sound of Music

       17 Thank You, Mama Merkel

      

      

       PART THREE: A Normal Life

      

      

       18 Foreigners in a Foreign Land

       19 A Schoolgirl at Last

       20 A Scary New Year

       21 A Place Called Home

      

      

       Postscript: The Only Candle

       Appendix: My Journey

       Picture Section

       Acknowledgements