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Malala Yousafzai

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Malala Yousafzai
ملاله یوسفزۍ
Yousafzai in 2019
Born (1997-07-12) 12 July 1997 (age 26)
Mingora, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan[1]
EducationLady Margaret Hall, Oxford (BA)
OccupationActivist for female education
OrganisationMalala Fund
Spouse
Asser Malik
​
(m. 2021)​
[2]
Parents
HonoursNobel Peace Prize (2014)
Websitemalala.org

Malala Yousafzai (Urdu: ملالہ یوسفزئی, Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ, pronunciation: [məˈlaːlə jusəf ˈzəj];[4] born 12 July 1997)[1][4][5] is a Pakistani female education activist and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate[6] at the age of 17. She is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history, the second Pakistani and the only Pashtun to receive a Nobel Prize.[7] Yousafzai is a human rights advocate for the education of women and children in her native homeland, Swat, where the Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become Pakistan's "most prominent citizen."[8]

The daughter of education activist Ziauddin Yousafzai, she was born to a Yusufzai Pashtun family in Swat and was named after the Afghan folk heroine Malalai of Maiwand. Considering Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Barack Obama, and Benazir Bhutto as her role models,[9] she was also inspired by her father's thoughts and humanitarian work.[10] In early 2009, when she was 11, she wrote a blog under her pseudonym Gul Makai for the BBC Urdu to detail her life during the Taliban's occupation of Swat. The following summer, journalist Adam B. Ellick made a New York Times documentary about her life as the Pakistan Armed Forces launched Operation Rah-e-Rast against the militants in Swat.[5] In 2011, she received Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize.[11][12] She rose in prominence, giving interviews in print and on television, and was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize by activist Desmond Tutu.

On 9 October 2012, while on a bus in Swat District after taking an exam, Yousafzai and two other girls were shot by a Taliban gunman in an assassination attempt targeting her for her activism; the gunman fled the scene. She was struck in the head by a bullet and remained unconscious and in critical condition at the Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology, but her condition later improved enough for her to be transferred to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, UK.[13] The attempt on her life sparked an international outpouring of support. Deutsche Welle reported in January 2013 that she may have become "the most famous teenager in the world".[14] Weeks after the attempted murder, a group of 50 leading Muslim clerics in Pakistan issued a fatwā against those who tried to kill her.[15] Governments, human rights organizations and feminist groups subsequently condemned the Pakistani Taliban. In response, the Taliban further denounced Yousafzai, indicating plans for a possible second assassination attempt which the Taliban felt was justified as a religious obligation. This sparked another international outcry.[16]

After her recovery, Yousafzai became a more prominent activist for the right to education. Based in Birmingham, she co-founded the Malala Fund, a non-profit organisation, with Shiza Shahid.[17] In 2013, she co-authored I Am Malala, an international best seller.[18] In 2013, she received the Sakharov Prize, and in 2014, she was the co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Kailash Satyarthi of India. Aged 17 at the time, she was the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate.[19][20][21] In 2015, she was the subject of the Oscar-shortlisted documentary He Named Me Malala. The 2013, 2014 and 2015 issues of Time magazine featured her as one of the most influential people globally. In 2017 she was awarded honorary Canadian citizenship and became the youngest person to address the House of Commons of Canada.[22]

Yousafzai completed her secondary school education at Edgbaston High School, Birmingham in England from 2013 to 2017.[23] From there she won a place at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and undertook three years of study for a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), graduating in 2020.[24] She returned in 2023 to become the youngest ever Honorary Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford.[25]

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  3. ^ a b Tighe, Siobhann (18 April 2017). "Malala Yousafzai's mother: Out of the shadows". BBC News. Archived from the original on 19 April 2021. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
  4. ^ a b امنسټي انټرنېشنل پر ملاله یوسفزۍ برید وغانده (in Pashto). BBC Pashto. 18 October 2012. Archived from the original on 25 November 2012. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  5. ^ a b Adam B. Ellick (2009). Class Dismissed. The New York Times (documentary). Archived from the original on 11 October 2012. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
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  7. ^ Profile: Malala Yousafzai Archived 11 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine, BBC News with links to related stories.
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  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference aj3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ "Following in Benazir's footsteps, Malala aspires to become PM of Pakistan". The Express Tribune. 10 December 2014. Archived from the original on 17 August 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  11. ^ D'Amours, Jillian Kestler. "Malala Yousafzai made an honorary Canadian citizen". Al Jazeera. Archived from the original on 30 December 2017. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
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  13. ^ Schifrin, Nick (7 October 2013). "The 72 Hours That Saved Malala: Doctors Reveal for the First Time How Close She Came to Death". Good Morning America. Yahoo! News. Archived from the original on 23 October 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  14. ^ Kyle McKinnon (18 January 2013). "Will Malala's Influence Stretch to Europe?". Deutsche Welle. Archived from the original on 18 August 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
  15. ^ "Malala Yousafzai: 'fatwa' issued against gunmen". The Guardian. 12 October 2012. Archived from the original on 21 August 2017. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
  16. ^ Imtiaz, Saba (17 July 2013). "(Pakistani)Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan's letter to Malala Yousafzai: this is why we tried to kill you". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 21 April 2020. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  17. ^ "$7 million from Malala Fund for education project in remote areas". DAWN.COM. 12 April 2014. Archived from the original on 6 January 2017. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  18. ^ "Best Sellers – November 3, 2013 – The New York Times". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 28 January 2017. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  19. ^ "Nobel Laureates by Age". nobelprize.org. 20 October 2014. Archived from the original on 10 October 2014. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
  20. ^ "Malala Yousafzai becomes youngest-ever Nobel Prize winner". The Express Tribune. 10 October 2014. Archived from the original on 13 October 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  21. ^ "The Nobel Peace Prize for 2014" (Press release). Oslo: Nobel Media AB. 10 October 2014. Archived from the original on 10 October 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  22. ^ "Malala Yousafzai awarded honorary Canadian citizenship". Dawn. 12 April 2017. Archived from the original on 13 April 2017. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  23. ^ "Malala Yousafzai attends first day at Edgbaston High School in Birmingham". BBC News. 19 March 2013. Archived from the original on 26 December 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  24. ^ "Malala Yousafzai full of 'joy and gratitude' after graduating from Oxford". The Guardian. 19 June 2020. Archived from the original on 19 June 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  25. ^ "Malala Yousafzai awarded honorary fellowship at Linacre College, Oxford". Cherwell. 5 May 2023. Archived from the original on 9 May 2023. Retrieved 15 May 2023.

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