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The students of today tell their stories of adversity and growth in letters to the original Freedom Writers—authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Freedom Writers Diary—who write supportive and powerful letters in response. Over twenty years ago, the students in first-year teacher...

Egyptian-born and London-raised, Alya Mooro grew up between two cultures and felt a pull from both. Where could she turn for advice and inspiration when it seemed there was nobody else like her? Today, Mooro is determined to explore and explode the myth that she must identify either as ‘Western’ or as one of almost 400 million other ‘Arabs’ across the Middle East.

Through storytelling and hope-dealing - we will open the long-locked diaries of women who have been tried by fire and came out radiant. They journeyed through the struggle/pain to come out victorious as their refined new self. They fought to no longer be bound by their past, but instead willingly jumped into the freedom of their present and future self. These stories all bond each of us together as we all need freeing from something in our life. Come along as we uncover the secrets of your true identity, rediscover your worth, and embrace the freedom that's rightfully yours.