One of Muzoon Almellehan's favorite things to say seems to be, "We are the future." By "we" she means children—especially Syrian children who were forced to flee their homes and live as refugees, like ...

No one wants to flee the home where they were born. But in 2013, when I was 14 years old, war had been going on in my country for two years. We thought at any moment we might die from one of the ...

Muzoon Almellehan was 13 years old when a civil war forced her to stop going to school in her hometown of Daraa, Syria. Fast forward six years and Almellehan, 19, is one of the lucky ones. She now ...

Muzoon Almellehan, on the surface, may seem like any ordinary, young Muslim girl you might meet when travelling in the Middle East or in some American or European neighborhoods. But at 19 years old, ...

NEW YORK, 19 June 2017 – UNICEF announced today, on the eve of World Refugee Day, the appointment of Muzoon Almellehan, a 19-year-old education activist and Syrian refugee, as its newest – and ...

Muzoon, who received support from Unicef while living in Za'atari refugee camp in Jordan, follows in the footsteps of the late Audrey Hepburn, a Goodwill Ambassador who was also supported by Unicef as ...

“We need education, because Syria needs us,” said 18-year-old Muzoon Almellehan at the United Nations last Monday. The Syrian teen appeared on a panel alongside U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, ...

Education campaigner Muzoon Almellehan has been celebrating her A-level results. Nobel prize winner Malala Yousafzai struck up a friendship with her after she met the Syrian teenager in a Jordanian ...

One year ago, a photograph of the body of toddler Alan Kurdi on a Turkish beach prompted global pledges to address the refugee crisis. Shortly after the image spread around the world, David Cameron ...

She's thousands of kilometres away from her homeland, but Muzoon Almellehan is still fighting for Syria. The rainy grey streets of this English port city could hardly feel further from the olive grove ...

On Monday, 19-year-old Syrian refugee and education activist Muzoon Almellehan made history by becoming the youngest Goodwill Ambassador named by UNICEF. She is also the first person with official ...