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 ...

As she struggled to push a disabled dinghy overloaded with refugees through frigid waters off the Turkish coast last summer, Yusra Mardini looked up at a frightened 6-year-boy and flashed him a goofy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Syrian refugee team swimmer Yusra Mardini, 18, from Syria practices at the Olympic swimming venue on Aug. 1, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. Senior Correspondent “Without swimming,” says Yusra Mardini, an ...