Many of them speak more than one language, including the 18 year old Yusra and have managed to stay educated, informed and active despite their situation.

On the other end, here in America, we have willfully ignorant, racist, xenophobic, narcissistic cretinous jerks that barely manage to speak, much less write, one language.
Yet these same people will criticize and belittle people like Yusra and call her a "savage" or worse.

I am humbled and amazed and truly inspired by these amazing individuals.

a lump in my throat. I'll be rooting for her.

There are people on this planet who would strangle their own mother for a shot at even basic literacy and liberal education and the critical thinking skills and understanding of the world that it provides...

And when we here worked our asses off to provide it as a PUBLIC SERVICE, roughly half the population decided to use it to make themselves MORE stupid than they were when we started.

The conservative counter-revolution must be destroyed. Perhaps, finally, the Republican party will do enough damage to itself to make that goal possible for the rest of us who ARENT so willfully ignorant.

but not quite like everyone in the world. Their kind of courage and persistence is uncommon.