Amaal Fawzi was raised in Lebanon and now lives in East London
(Picture: Royal Commonwealth Society )A teenager from East London was the runner up in a writing competition entered by thousands of young people around the Commonwealth.
Amaal Fawzi, 17, who studies English Literature and Creative Writing at university, was named senior runner up in the prize for her poem, ‘Nursing Homes’. She came second to Sawooly Li, 17, from New Zealand.
