Course : ENGLISH B CLASS

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Muzon, a passionate supporter of Syrian girls’ education in Jordan’s refugee’s camps, has been regarded as Syria’s answer to Malala. When Muzon’s family escaped the war in Syria in 2013, they considered leaving her behind. The bright 14-year-old had been studying hard all year for her school exams and her aunt encouraged the family to let her stay and continue her education.

However, her father decided that the risks were too great and so the girl fled with him and her siblings across the border to Jordan’s Azraq refugee camp. “I knew she could make up for lost schooling, but if you lose your life there’s no way to make up for that” her father told me when I met the family in Jordan’s Azraq refugee camp. Education has always played a big part in Muzon’s life. Both of her parents were teachers back in Syria’s southern area of Dara’a, and her aunt and uncle were head teachers at local schools. “I didn’t need them to tell me that education is important. I always just felt it,” she explains. “Our house was built by an engineer. When I was sick I went to a doctor. Education is everything in life.”

Now 17, not only has she continued her studies in Jordan, but she has become a powerful and high-profile supporter for education among Syrian refugees, especially young women and girls. Her campaigning shares a number of similarities to that of Malala, Pakistan’s Nobel Prize-winning education campaigner, whom Muzon considers a personal friend. “She taught me that no matter what obstacles I face in life, they can be overcome.” The family’s main home in Izra was close to a military base. Unable to tolerate the fighting any longer, they made their way to Jordan and settled initially in Za’atari refugee camp.  

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