O livro conta a história de Malala Yousafzai, uma paquistanesa que levou um tiro na cabeça à queima-roupa em 2012. Isso aconteceu porque Malala, na época ainda adolescente, defendia o direito à educação para meninas - algo considerado inaceitável para o Talibã. Entretanto, ao invés de se silenciar frente às frequentes ameaças que sofria, ela não se intimidou e, mesmo após o ataque sofrido em 2012, continuou defendendo o direito à educação de qualidade para todas as crianças. A persistência de Malala na defesa de uma causa tão nobre fez com que ela fosse reconhecida internacionalmente, sendo convidada para palestrar em diferentes países e ganhando diversos prêmios, incluindo o Prêmio Nobel da Paz de 2014. Leia mais em: https://www.acrobatadasletras.com.br/2021/04/resenha-eu-sou-malala-de-malala.html
The 17-year-old Pakistani children’s rights activist won the World Children’s Prize in Stockholm on Tuesday, and said she would donate all of that prize money to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA said in a statement.
Malala Yousafzai, the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is to donate $50,000 (39,000 euros) to help rebuild United Nations schools in Gaza, the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency said Wednesday.
The 17-year-old Pakistani children’s rights activist won the World Children’s Prize in Stockholm on Tuesday, and said she would donate all of that prize money to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA said in a statement.
“Innocent Palestinian children have suffered terribly and for too long,” UNRWA quoted Malala as saying.
Honestly, it would be hard for anyone to fuck up a film about Malala Yousafzai because she is such a fantastic, amazing and charismatic young woman. Shot in the head by the Taliban for speaking out about the right for girls to get an education, she has fought tooth and nail for her cause - I don’t bandy the word about too often, but to me, she’s an inspiration.
And the film does a lovely job of capturing her spirit in the little bits showing her at home, whether it’s bickering with her little brothers of giggling sheepishly over crushes on the likes of Roger Federer, It’s nice to see the side of her that is just teenage girl, all be it an obviously remarkable one.
But while Malala herself has none, the film itself does has it’s faults. She is such an interesting subject that I’d rather they went over the back story in a little less detail and just focused solely on her. I could probably watch her talk about her favourite brand of loo roll and I’d still be enthralled.
Also, Malala is an astounding public speaker, so they missed a trick not showing more of her speeches; the blazing passion and the level of articulation she has is just beyond comprehension, and I really think they should’ve shown more of this.
But, any film that’s about her story is going to interest me, and if this means more people will become aware of her then I’m very glad this film is out there.
I hate society for making me believe that “pretty” is the most important thing a woman can be.
I don’t truly think this, however, whenever I see a picture of a woman I immediately look for what makes her pretty, it is the first thing my mind goes to.
I was looking at pictures of Malala and found that I was trying to convince myself that she was beautiful. As if her accomplishments were only as valid as her attractiveness. What does it matter if she is pretty? She is incredible, and the fact that I was focussing on her face angers me.
Someone made a post featuring a later picture of Audrey Hepburn, saying that the media only shows her in her 20’s. Someone else shared how while alive, she raised money for the Dutch resistance against the nazis, and in her post-film career was a goodwill ambassador of UNICEF. Yet despite all this, history remembers her as pretty. After reading that, I looked at the picture and thought to myself “even old she was beautiful”. WHY WAS THAT MY TAKEAWAY?
How did a woman’s prettiness become so important that it overpowers her intelligence, righteousness, and bravery?
Yesterday, Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani education activist, turned 17. Tomorrow is Malala Day, a day of activism pushing for increased access to education for children around the world, especially girls. Malala is one of the most influential teenagers in the world. Here’s what, in my humble opinion, makes her so fantastic:
1.She started as a blogger. Under the name Gul Makai, she blogged for BBC throughout 2009 about living under the Taliban’s threat of denying her an education. Her identity was revealed in December of that year.
2.She survived an attempted assassination by the Taliban. There are few things more terrifying than being on the receiving end of a bullet shot by a member of a terrorist group. While on a bus home from school on October 9, 2012, a Taliban member stepped onto the bus and shot her.
3.She refused to let the Taliban’s threat intimidate her. “They thought that the bullets would silence us,” she said in a speech to the UN, “but they failed. And then, out of that silence came, thousands of voices.”
4.She still pursued education after being shot. By March of the next year, she was in school in Birmingham, England.
5.Throughout turmoil, she is still dedicated to her homeland. “I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country. Even if its people hate me, I will still love it,” she said.
6.On her 16th birthday, she gave a speech for the UN. “I raise up my voice – not so that I can shout,” she said in the speech, “but so that those without a voice can be heard.”
7.On her 17th birthday, she visited Nigeria. She met with parents of some of the 200+ girls who went missing 3 months ago and spoke on the importance of continuing to call for action.
8.She was the recipient of Pakistan’s first National Youth Peace Prize.
9. She was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2013.
10. She was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.
11. Her attempted assassination sparked 2 million signatures on a petition that led to the ratification of Pakistan’s first right to education bill in Pakistan.
12. She wrote and published an autobiography. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up For Education and Was Shot by the Taliban came out in October 2013.
13.She calls for nonviolence. “I do not even hate the Talib who shot me,” she said. “Even if there is a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him.”
14.She doesn’t want to get revenge, but rather forgives the group who is out to kill her. “If you hit a Talib with your shoe,” she said in her book, “then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.”
15. While speaking at at the UN at age 16, she pushed them to recommit to educating every child by 2015.
16. Physical appearance is not a concern for her. “I reassured my mother that it didn’t matter to me if my face was not symmetrical,“ she said in her book. "Me, who had always cared about my appearance, how my hair looked! But when you see death, things change.”
17.She continues to fight for human rights even though she is still targeted by the Taliban. "We will target her again and attack whenever we have the chance,” said a spokesperson of the group.
