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Shiny Tiny: escaping war through roller derby

by HUCK MAGAZINE

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This video from Huck features "Shiny Tiny”, a 22-year old business student from Yemen and a founding member of Lebanon’s first (and incidentally, all-female) roller derby team. Her real name is Hadeel Al-Hubaishi, and the rest of her family is in Yemen. Roller derby is her escape from otherwise all-consuming anxieties about the civil war and humanitarian catastrophe engulfing her family and friends back home.

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