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The family did not have enough money for a hospital birth and Yousafzai was born at home with the help of neighbours. [31] She was given her first name Malala (meaning "grief-stricken") [32] after Malalai of Maiwand, a famous Pashtun poet and warrior woman from southern Afghanistan. [33]
Ziauddin Yousafzai (Urdu: ضیاء الدین یوسفزئی; Pashto: ضیاالدین یوسفزی; born 20 April 1969) [1] is a Pakistani educational entrepreneur [2] and activist best known as the father of Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, who protested against the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan opposition to the education rights of girls, especially for Pakistani girls.
Pakistan activist Malala Yousafzai was named in honor of Malalai when she was born on July 12, 1997. [citation needed] Malala Maiwand, an Afghan journalist was also named to avoid the identity confusion with the Afghan Joan of Arc until her murder on December 10, 2020. [citation needed]
Malala Yousafzai urges Muslim leaders to challenge policies restricting girls and women's schooling. ... but did not attend. ... How did Jim Morrison die? Inside The Doors frontman's sudden death ...
LONDON (AP) - Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai said Tuesday she is "heartbroken" about the attack on a military school in Pakistan that has claimed more than 125 lives, including many ...
In season 2's "Malala Made Me Do It," the cast breaks into a country song named after the episode.The activist, 26, emerges from the shadows dressed in Western and Pakistani-inspired garb, sitting ...
I Am Malala was published on 8 October 2013, by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the UK and Little, Brown and Company in the US. [23] [24] The book has been translated into more than 40 languages. [25] A children's edition of the memoir was published in 2014 under the title I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World. [26]
Ziauddin Yousafzai is a Pakistani education activist. He has three children, a daughter—Malala Yousafzai—and two sons—Khushal and Atal. After writing an anonymous blog for BBC Urdu and being subject to a New York Times documentary Class Dismissed, Malala began gaining a public profile as an advocate for female education and for speaking about the conditions of life under the growing ...