Yusra Mardini stepped on a plane back to Germany for the holidays overwhelmed by emotion. News had just filtered through from Syria of the overthrow of the country’s longtime dictator Bashar al ...

Eventually, one of the sisters, Yusra Mardini (Nathalie Issa) competed in the 2016 Olympics in Rio and the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, swimming for the Refugee Olympic team, after getting asylum in ...

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Also featuring Alexandria by Islam Issa and The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada. By Michael Prodger, Megan Gibson, Anoosh Chakelian and Barney Horner During his brief but storied life, Alexander the Great ...

The Mardini sisters are portrayed by real-life Lebanese sisters Nathalie Issa and Manal Issa. In an interview with Cinema Daily US, Nathalie (who plays Yusra) revealed that Manal originally ...

Manal Issa, left, and Nathalie Issa in The Swimmers. The actors had to speak English rather than Arabic (Netflix) In a recent Guardian opinion piece, which this writer found deeply reductionist ...

Manal Issa says Netflix should have cast Syrian actors and did not do justice to the real story Actor Manal Issa, right, pictured with sister and co-star Nathalie Issa, says she was not completely ...

You can check out our interview with the star Nathalie Issa here on CinemaBlend. Another true story, albeit on a much darker side of the spectrum is The Good Nurse. Based on the true crime book ...

From our interview with Nathalie Issa. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Among Netflix’s 2022 releases is a film called The ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Nathalie Issa, who plays Yusra. The Netflix movie "The Swimmers" tells the story of two sisters. They tease each other, as sisters do, and push each other's buttons.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE SWIMMERS") MANAL ISSA: (As Sara) By the way, it's not a dinner. It's your surprise birthday party. NATHALIE ISSA: (As Yusra) I hate you. M ISSA: (As Sara) Just don't ruin ...