War in North-West Pakistan

Have you ever been in a situation where you wanted to fight for something you thought was right in this world? Well, this had been the situation where Malala had been in right now. Malala has been fighting for what she thinks is right for this world and should be done. What she is fighting for is for all women who don't have education to have education right now. There are more than 130 million girls without education and this is what she is trying to change. She wants all women to be equal and…

Malala Yousafzai A person shot and left for dead in a Middle Eastern country. With the current state of unrest in that region, this a familiar story that likely would not surprise many. In this story, the country is Pakistan and the victim is a 15-year-old girl that just wanted to go to school. This attack was the catalyst that thrust Malala Yousafzai into the spotlight and led to her becoming the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize winner and a global leader for change. Malala Yousafzai is a…

(Pakistan is a country in South Asia, near Afghanistan and Iran.) She was privileged enough to have access to clean water, shelter, food, and most importantly to her, education. When she was hit by the fact that a man named Fazlullah (A radio “mullah”, or…

Malala Yousafzai, currently in Birmingham England, had recently a bullet shot to the head, and has just spoken to the United Nations. Ever since the Taliban, the strict Islamic militia, shot Malala in the head, she’s been a huge sensation and has truly shook the world, giving speeches to support educational rights. She has even said, “Education is the power terrorists fear most.” Ms.Yousafzai had been protesting through her speeches about females and males education and is also known in several…

affected who she would become, she overcame many obstacles, she accomplished many things in her life, and she has many more things interesting about her. Malala’s early life would affect who she would become. She was born July 12, 1997 in Mingora, Pakistan. She wrote under the pen name Gul Makai to a BBC journalist (Kettler, 2016). Also, she was shot on October 12, 2012. This girl is an inspiration to my soul. Malala overcame many obstacles. One obstacle was she survived being shot in the head…

Malala’s Yousafzai struggles and hardships throughout her teenage life show every college student they can fight for what they believe in and to never give up when times get hard. The bravery that she exhibited through it all showed me that no matter what you are going through and the obstacles that are thrown in your way you can always overcome them, and by overcoming those trials and tribulations you become a greater person because of it. As Malala said in the book “We don’t understand how…

Born in Mingora, Pakistan, which is located in the country’s Swat Valley Malala Yousafzai, whose name means "grief stricken,” witness her town being destroyed by an Islamic fundamentalist group. Yousafzai’s hometown was a popular destination in the summer for its festivities in her early childhood till the Taliban showed interest in the town. The Taliban is an Islamic militant fundamentalist group that enforced Sharia law. They also denied education to females and forced strict rules of behavior…

Powerful” by Kristen Lewis describes the torment that many Muslim people, especially women and girls were put through by the Taliban. Malala’s life took place while the Taliban was taking control over places that she lived in or near, Afghanistan and Pakistan. They began enforcing rules that were expected to be obeyed by everyone they were applied to, lots of the time directly enforced to women and girls. For example, in 2009, the Taliban ordered all girls’ schools to close down. Malala was one…

America feared the possibility of larger attack by intervening, and sent troops away. Muhammad Malik, a professor at the College of Samanabad in Pakistan, writes, “The purpose is domination of a pure Pashtun people and culture in Afghanistan. As a consequence the influence of American culture in Afghanistan will be eliminated, almost entirely during the period that Amir calls the end of Afghanistan”…

Education is the most critical area of empowerment for women. Giving them their right to basic education is the only way of providing them power and creating a better tomorrow for all of us. ‘I am Malala’ by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb is the fearless memoir of Malala Yousafzai who stood up for the education of the girls and was shot by the Taliban on October 9, 2012. She says, “I come from a country which was created at midnight and when I almost died it was just after midday.” Her…