Nujeen Mustafa is a 17-year-old Kurdish Syrian who grew up in Manbij and Aleppo. Born with cerebral palsy, she fled the war in Syria and trekked to Germany in a wheelchair. Christina Lamb is an award-winning foreign correspondent for British newspaper the Sunday Times and author of Farewell Kabul and New York Times bestseller I Am Malala. https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/contributor/nujeen-mustafa-and-christina-lamb/rss en Crises & Conflicts Tue, 11 Oct 2016 14:26:37 +0000 Nujeen Mustafa and Christina Lamb https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2016/10/11/my-voyage-from-syria-to-europe-in-a-wheelchair https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2016/10/11/my-voyage-from-syria-to-europe-in-a-wheelchair Nujeen Mustafa, a Syrian teenager born with cerebral palsy, fled to Europe last year in a wheelchair. In an excerpt from “Nujeen,” a new book telling her story, she describes crossing the Aegean Sea on the same day that 3-year-old Alan Kurdi died.