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Bana Alabed, the 7-year-old Syrian girl who caught the world's attention on Twitter, will publish a memoir this fall.

Simon & Schuster announced the book deal last week. The memoir will be called "Dear World." 

https://twitter.com/AlabedBana/status/852201897935110148

Alabed's Twitter account, which is run by her mother, Fatemah, started in September 2016. The tweets offered a glimpse of life in Aleppo as it came under siege.

https://twitter.com/AlabedBana/status/783258925575593984

https://twitter.com/AlabedBana/status/780491327318482945

The girl wrote about war, but also about her family and her love of reading. Caitlin Gibson at The Washington Post called her 

After a series of tense messages in December of last year, which suggested that Alabed and her family were in extreme danger from mounting violence, she was evacuated to Turkey.

https://twitter.com/AlabedBana/status/810900621842845696

On Twitter, she has continued to call on world leaders to work for peace, and to share pictures from her new life.

https://twitter.com/AlabedBana/status/847164163113783299

"I am so happy to have this opportunity to tell my story and the story of what has happened in Aleppo to the world," she said in the release from Simon & Schuster. "I hope my book will make 
the world do something for the children and people of Syria and bring peace to children all over the world who are living in war."

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The world met Bana Alabed on Twitter last year: She documented life in Aleppo as the city came under siege.

Bana Alabed, 7-year-old Syrian refugee, will publish a memoir

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