Maya Ghazal

Maya Ghazal (Arabic: مايا غزال‎, born 1999 in Damascus, Syria) is a Syrian-British Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency in 2021.[1][2][3]

Biography

In 2015, at the age of 16, Maya Ghazal was forced to flee her home in Damascus, Syria, with her mother and two younger brothers, and go to the U.K. where they were reunited with her father, who had arrived in the country a year earlier.[4][5]

Ghazal saw this move as her “great new beginning.” She had big hopes and dreams and believed life would get back to some kind of normality, but unfortunately, this was not the case at first and she experienced stigmatization and hostility.[6][7][8]

References
  1. Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for. "Maya Ghazal". UNHCR. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  2. "مايا غزال.. أول لاجئة سورية تحصل على رخصة قيادة طائرة". عربي21 (in Arabic). 2021-06-19. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  3. Freeman, Liam. "Meet Maya Ghazal, the First Female Syrian Refugee Pilot". Vogue. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  4. "BBC Sounds - We Can Change The World, Refugee Rights with Maya Ghazal". BBC. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  5. "مايا غزال.. أول لاجئة سورية تحصل على رخصة قيادة طائرة". تلفزيون سوريا (in Arabic). 2021-06-19. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  6. "مايا غزال.. أول لاجئة سورية تحقق حلمها بـ"الطيران"". www.eremnews.com (in Arabic). Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  7. Freeman, Liam. "Meet Maya Ghazal, The World's First Female Syrian Refugee Pilot". British Vogue. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  8. Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for. "First solo flight shows sky's the limit for refugees". UNHCR. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
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