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Genre/Form: | Comics (Graphic works) Comic books, strips, etc |
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Named Person: | Samia Yusuf Omar |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Reinhard Kleist |
ISBN: | 9783551713865 3551713863 |
OCLC Number: | 1020716387 |
Description: | 147 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. |
Series Title: | Graphic novel paperback (Hamburg, Germany) |
Responsibility: | Reinhard Kleist. |
Abstract:
The sprinter Samia Yusuf Omar represented Somalia at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. However, she was threatened by Islamic extremists who oppose that women play sports. In the hope of being able to participate in the Olympic Games in London, she tried to escape to Europe. Samia Yusuf Omar drowned at age 21 off the coast of Malta in 2012. -- carlsen.de.
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