When Nujeen Mustafa left her home in Syria 16 months ago she had three goals: to join her brother and sister in Germany, to meet the queen and to become an astronaut. She has already ticked off the first of those three goals and nobody who has followed the teenager’s story so far would bet against her achieving the other two. Because if there’s one thing Nujeen knows all about, it’s beating unfavourable odds.
Born with cerebral palsy, the 16-year-old has spent her life in a wheelchair. She had little formal education in Syria but taught herself English by watching US soap operas. In 2014 her home town of Kobane was at the centre of fierce fighting between Isis militants and US-backed Kurdish forces, forcing her family to flee across the border into Turkey.
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