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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Freddie Bennett

Refugee who fled to Scotland from Syria transforms life through cooking

There are groups of people enjoying themselves with bottles of wine they brought from home to accompany some Syrian food on a cold December night in Edinburgh.

But toiling away behind the scenes to perfect her range of Syrian dishes in the kitchen of the trendy and colourful Coffee Saints cafe in Edinburgh City Centre is an inspirational couple with an unimaginable story.

The event in question was a Syrian Supper Club which has been running in Edinburgh for four years thanks to the non-profit organisation Cyrenians who are a charity that fights homelessness in the city.

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