Bana Alabed
Bana Alabed, born in 2009 in Aleppo, Syria, is known worldwide for her tweets during the siege of the city in 2016 and for her subsequent calls for peace and an end to all global conflict. Her tweets have earned her legions of admirers around the world by giving a remarkable insight into the daily horrors of life in the city, including airstrikes, hunger, and the prospect of her family’s death. In December 2016, Bana and her family were safely evacuated from Aleppo to Turkey. When she grows up, Bana would like to become a teacher, like her mother. Her father is a lawyer, and she has two younger brothers, Noor and Mohamed. She wrote Dear World and My Name Is Bana.
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Dear World
- By: Bana Alabed
- Narrator: Lameece Issaq
- Length: 3 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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“A story of love and courage amid brutality and terror, this is the testimony of a child who has endured the unthinkable.” –J.K. Rowling “I’m very afraid I will die tonight.” —Bana Alabed, Twitter, October... Read more
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