Meet the female soccer stars of the Beddawi refugee camp
Meet Loulou Abdul Razak: Super Girl! , “My teammates call me ‘Super Girl’ because I’m a fast runner and I’m always urging the team on. I help them learn new tricks. I think this is how we improve and move forward.” Loulou Abdul Razak, 17, is in 12th grade at Banasira School in Beddawi, a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon. She is passionate about soccer and delighted that a…, Meet Nisreen Abdul Kader, 16 , “At school, we never had access to a soccer field,” she explains. “Soccer was only a boys’ game and they used to tease us all the time. Girls were always on the benches cheering and watching tournaments.” Nisreen studies at North Technical School in Al Zahriyeh, Tripoli, the largest city in northern Lebanon. The 11th grader explains how exciting…, Meet Marwa Al Marzouk, 14 , Marwa was only eight yearsold when she started playing soccer with boys from her neighborhood in Beddawi. Marwa is now 14 and a seventh grader at Al Ramleh School in the camp. She says soccer is an “international language that transcends religion, community or nationality.” Her dream is to join the national Palestinian soccer team. “I think…