I am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban
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Performing in a play at school
Painting at school
A picture I painted when I was twelve, just after we came back to Swat from being IDPs. It shows the dream of interfaith harmony.
In our garden in Mingora, building a snowman with Atal
Visiting Spal Bandi, where my father stayed while he studied
At school reading a story: ‘All That Glitters Is Not Gold’
At the tomb of Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan
My father and the elders of Swat
School bombing
The bus where I was shot
Dr Fiona and Dr Javid by my bedside
First days in the Birmingham hospital
Reading in hospital
Our headmistress, Madam Maryam (left), with Shazia, one of the girls who was shot with me
My friends keep a chair in class for me (far right)
Sir Amjad, head of the boys’ school, greets my poster every morning
Here I am at the UN with Ban Ki-moon, Gordon Brown, family and friends
Speaking at the UN on my sixteenth birthday
With my mother in Medina
Here we are outside our new home in Birmingham
Additional Credits and Thanks
Picture section
SECTION 1
P4 bottom © Copyright Justin Sutcliffe 2013.
SECTION 2
P2 top © Kh Awais
P2 bottom © Copyright Asad Hashim/Al Jazeera. Courtesy of Al Jazeera English (AlJazeera.com).
P3 top, bottom, P4 top © Copyright University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. Used with the kind permission of The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
P5 bottom © Copyright Justin Sutcliffe 2013.
P6 top © UN Photo / Eskinder Debebe. Used with the kind permission of the United Nations Photo Library.
bottom © UN Photo / Rick Bajornas. Used with the kind permission of the United Nations Photo Library.
P8 © Antonio Olmos 2013.
Text
With grateful thanks to:
The Jinnah Archive (www.jinnaharchive.com) for the use of selections from the work of Quaid-i-Azam M.A. Jinnah.
Rahmat Shah Sayel for use of his poems.
For help with the translations of tapey from Pashto, thanks to my father’s friends Mr Hamayun Masaud, Mr Muhammad Amjad, Mr Ataurrahman and Mr Usman Ulasyar.
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