He Named Me Malala Page #4

Synopsis: A look at the events leading up to the Taliban's attack on Pakistani schoolgirl, Malala Yousafzai, for speaking out on girls' education followed by the aftermath, including her speech to the United Nations.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Davis Guggenheim
Production: 20th Century Fox
  Won 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 6 wins & 19 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
61
Rotten Tomatoes:
72%
PG-13
Year:
2015
88 min
Website
3,419 Views


So my skirt is longer

than most of the girls'.

And then, my Iife is quite

different than their Iife.

Most of them have boyfriends.

Most of them have broke up

with some of the boyfriends

and found new ones.

It's quite difficuIt

to tell girIs who really I am.

l don't know whether

they would like me,

or whether

they're interested in me.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

ln Kenya, there are so many

girls who cannot go to school.

(SINGING IN OTHER LANGUAGE)

(TEACHER SPEAKING)

This schooI starts from grade nine.

MALALA:
Grade nine?

Up to which grade?

Up to grade 12,

but, because we are still new, we onIy

have grade 9 and 10.

(SINGING CONTINUES )

I Iived in this country.

I was born in this country

called Pakistan...

I was born in Swat Valley.

There are more than

180 million peopIe.

Most of them are youth.

So, who wants to

become a doctor?

You want to.

The crops that you are growing?

The number one is wheat.

Number two is rice.

Number three is maize.

Who wants to study history?

That's great.

The Iargest mountain?

It's called K2.

The Iongest river?

It comes through these valleys

and goes down, down, down,

and through Sindh.

What do you want to be?

I'd Iike to become a Iawyer.

-On this side?

-Yeah.

The girIs whose mother

or father is educated,

they shouId raise up

their hands.

ZIAUDDIN:
l loved education.

l loved to be a teacher.

l started my own school...

just with $150.

We hired a small building.

l was the sweeper.

l was the manager.

l was the headmaster.

The very first day

of my school,

l stood and l recited

the national anthem.

There were three students,

and it started.

MALALA:
l used to be

in school all the day.

l loved the way

teacher was speaking.

And l loved the way

the students

were listening carefully

to the teacher...

being all around with

other girls and with teachers.

l put in my student

a kind of rebel

against traditions, customs...

and how to raise their voice.

MALALA:
l could not

even speak properly, but...

in my own language

l would try to give lectures

to the empty classrooms.

School was my home.

Moniba was here and then

I was sitting next to her.

Here was I.

And here was Shazia,

and here was Kainat.

The Talib came here...

and I was just

very near to him...

and then he asked,

''Who is MaIaIa?''

This is an easy one.

(ALL SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)

Remember the symboIs and numbers.

So you mean these signs

in the middIe here?

And then remember the number, too.

Okay, choose a card

in all these cards

and then remember it.

(SPEAKS OTHER LANGUAGE)

You have to take it out, okay?

Now see my tricks.

(SHUFFLES CARDS )

-This is your card.

-(LAUGHS )

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Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai (Malālah Yūsafzay: Urdu: ملالہ یوسفزئی‬‎; Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ‎ [məˈlaːlə jusəf ˈzəj]; born 12 July 1997) is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become "the most prominent citizen" of the country.Yousafzai was born to a Pashtun family in Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Her family came to run a chain of schools in the region. Considering Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Benazir Bhutto as her role models, she was particularly inspired by her father's thoughts and humanitarian work. In early 2009, when she was 11–12, she wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC Urdu detailing her life during the Taliban occupation of Swat. The following summer, journalist Adam B. Ellick made a New York Times documentary about her life as the Pakistani military intervened in the region. She rose in prominence, giving interviews in print and on television, and she was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize by activist Desmond Tutu. On 9 October 2012, while on a bus in the Swat District, after taking an exam, Yousafzai and two other girls were shot by a Taliban gunman in an assassination attempt in retaliation for her activism; the gunman fled the scene. Yousafzai was hit in the head with 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. The attempt on her life sparked an international outpouring of support for Yousafzai. Deutsche Welle reported in January 2013 that Yousafzai may have become "the most famous teenager in the world". Weeks after the attempted murder, a group of fifty leading Muslim clerics in Pakistan issued a fatwā against those who tried to kill her. Taliban officials responded to condemnation by further denouncing Yousafzai, indicating plans for a possible second assassination attempt which was justified as a religious obligation. Their statements resulted in further international condemnation.Following her recovery, Yousafzai became a prominent activist for the right to education. Based out of Birmingham, she founded the Malala Fund, a non-profit organisation, and in 2013 co-authored I am Malala, an international best seller. In 2012, she was the recipient of Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize and the 2013 Sakharov Prize. In 2014, she was the co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, along with Kailash Satyarthi. Aged 17 at the time, this made her the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. In 2015, Yousafzai was a 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. Yousafzai attended Edgbaston High School from 2013 to 2017, and is currently studying for a bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. more…

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