What Did General Abbas Do for Malala's Family

Book by Malala Yousafzai

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot past the Taliban
Malala Yousafzai wearing a pink hijab

Book encompass

Author Malala Yousafzai
Christina Lamb
Country United kingdom
Usa
Linguistic communication English
Subject Autobiography
Publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK)
Niggling, Brownish and Company (US)

Publication engagement

8 October 2013
Pages 288
ISBN 978-0-29787-091-iii
OCLC 1407766175

Dewey Decimal

371.8
LC Class LC2330

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban is an autobiographical volume past Malala Yousafzai, co-written with Christina Lamb. It was published on 8 October 2013, by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the U.k. and Piffling, Brown and Company in the US. The book details the early life of Yousafzai, her father's ownership of schools and activism, the rise and fall of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in Swat Valley and the assassination attempt made against Yousafzai, when she was aged fifteen, following her activism for female person pedagogy. Information technology received a positive critical reception and won awards, though it has been banned in many schools in Pakistan.

Synopsis [edit]

Function One covers Malala Yousafzai's life "Before the Taliban". She describes her childhood habitation Swat Valley. Named for Malalai of Maiwand, Yousafzai lived with her male parent Ziauddin, her female parent Toor Pekai and ii younger brothers Khushal and Atal. Ziauddin'south male parent Rohul Amin was an imam and a teacher. Ziauddin studied a Primary's in English at Jehanzeb Higher. He opened the Khushal School with a partner Naeem, who later left due to fiscal difficulties. Ziauddin found a new partner Hidayatullah, with whom the school slowly began to make a profit. As Ziauddin began to open up more schools, Toor Pekai would bring children in demand to live with them and Ziauddin would give costless places in his schools to poor children. Yousafzai describes the changing political regimes in Pakistan, the get-go drone strikes in Pakistan in 2004 following the September 11 attacks.

Part Ii, "The Valley of Death", details the ascent of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in Swat. In 2006, Fazlullah began a popular "Radio Mullah" broadcast which initially gave advice on such matters as ritual ablutions and drug abstinence, only progressed into the condemnation of music and dancing, and didactics on women staying in the home. The book also describes the continuing War in North-W Islamic republic of pakistan, and the return of Benazir Bhutto in Islamic republic of pakistan which culminated in her bump-off. The Taliban began to commit further murders such as that of Shabana, and Ziauddin Yousafzai continued outspoken activism. During the First Boxing of Swat, Malala begins to write a BBC Urdu weblog nether the pseudonym "Gul Mukai". Her school is shut downward following a Taliban edict in 2009, and her family are forced to move to Shangla for 3 months.

Part 3 is entitled "3 Bullets, 3 Girls". By August 2009, the army accept fought off the Taliban in Swat, and the Yousafzai family return. Malala's school re-opens, and she visits Islamabad with schoolhouse friends, coming together with Major General Athar Abbas and giving a public voice communication. With her father, Yousafzai speaks at many interviews, disquisitional of the Taliban and the regular army'south ineffectiveness. The 2010 Pakistan floods devastate Swat, destroying buildings and leaving many without food, clean h2o and electricity. In the residue of the country, CIA agent Raymond Davis murders two men and the Americans impale bin Laden, leading to widespread mistrust of American influence in Pakistan past the public. In tardily 2011, Yousafzai begins to receive prizes for her activism. She travels to Karachi to talk to Geo Goggle box, also visiting the mausoleum of Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Yousafzai receives decease threats, which worries her parents. Following the shooting of Zahid Khan in Baronial 2012, Ziauddin expected to be targeted adjacent. Malala also begins to fear an attack on her. She revises hard for her exams, staying upward late at dark. After her Pakistan Studies paper on 9 October, two men stop her bus and come aboard. One shouts "Who is Malala?" and shoots three bullets.

Part Four is named "Between Life and Expiry". One bullet travelled from Yousafzai'southward left middle to her shoulder, and her friends Shazia and Kainat were also non-fatally injured. Yousafzai'due south male parent gave a voice communication with the Association of Individual Schools before rushing to the hospital, while Yousafzai's mother was learning to read and rushed abode to pray. Malala was taken by helicopter to the Combined War machine Hospital in Peshawar and then airlifted to a armed services hospital in Rawalpindi. Yousafzai was taken on 15 October to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, aboard a United Arab Emirates jet, but her male parent refused to come up as the remainder of the family could not travel without passports.

Part V is called "A Second Life". Yousafzai woke up in Birmingham on 16 Oct, and spent the following days obsessed with the location of her father, and not beingness able to afford medical treatment, though the Pakistani authorities was roofing costs. Yousafzai received 8000 cards and many presents. When she awoke, she was confused nigh all the cards she had received, as at that place was supposed to be a news blackout in Islamic republic of pakistan and so no ane would know anything had happened to her or where she was being taken, simply someone had seen her being flown out to the UK, and word got effectually chop-chop. Her family finally arrived on 25 October. The day her family got to the hospital was also the start day since arriving in Birmingham that she had whatever access to windows. Malala had not seen the urban center she was beingness kept in for 10 days.[one] She underwent surgery on 11 November to repair her facial nervus; in January 2013, she was discharged, and in February she received surgery to get a cochlear implant. Yousafzai lives in Birmingham, though she misses Swat, and plans to continue her activism then she tin exist known not as "the girl who was shot by the Taliban" but equally "the daughter who fought for education".

Reception [edit]

According to Publishers Weekly, in 2022 the book had sold almost 2 million copies, and in that location were 750,000 copies of the children'south edition in print.[2] In March 2018, The Bookseller reported that 328,000 copies of the book had been sold in the UK, netting over £2.47 meg.[3]

Accolades [edit]

  • 2013 Specsavers National Book Awards, Popular Non-Fiction Volume of the Yr[four]
  • 2013 Goodreads Pick Awards, Best Memoir & Autobiography[five]
  • 2014 Political Book Awards, Finalist, Political Book of the Year[6]

Critical reviews [edit]

Sayeeda Warsi, writing for The Daily Telegraph, giving the book four stars out of 5, wrote "Malala has turned a tragedy into something positive".[seven] Entertainment Weekly gave the book a "B+", writing "Malala's bravely eager phonation can seem a little sparse hither, in I Am Malala, likely cheers to her co-writer, simply her powerful message remains undiluted."[8] Metro list the volume as one of the "20 best non-fiction books of 2013", praising that Yousafzai's story is "one of idealism and stubborn courage".[9]

In The Observer, the reviewer Yvonne Roberts praised Lamb for ensuring "the teenager's voice is never lost", and summarises that "this extraordinary schoolgirl'due south words are a reminder of all that is best in man nature".[10] Fatima Bhutto in The Guardian chosen the volume "fearless" and stated that "the haters and conspiracy theorists would exercise well to read this volume", though she criticised "the potent, know-it-all vocalisation of a foreign correspondent" that is interwoven with Yousafzai's.[11] In The Spectator, the journalist Owen Bennett-Jones describes Yousafzai'southward story as "astonishing", and writes that "as the story progresses, Malala'due south voice definitely cuts through, clear and defiant".[12] Marie Arana in The Washington Postal service called the book "riveting" and wrote "It is difficult to imagine a chronicle of a war more moving, apart from perchance the diary of Anne Frank."[13]

Response in Islamic republic of pakistan [edit]

The All Pakistan Private School's Federation announced that the book would exist banned in its 152,000 member institutions, stating that information technology disrespected Islam and could have a "negative" influence.[fourteen] Pakistani investigative editor Ansar Abbasi described her piece of work as "providing her critics something 'concrete' to prove her as an 'agent' of the Westward confronting Islam and Islamic republic of pakistan".[15]

Following the volume'due south release, the Pakistani Taliban released a statement threatening to kill Yousafzai, and target bookshops which sell the volume.[16]

The book, yet, continues to be available in leading bookstores. It remains a popular reading amidst educated people peculiarly young girls. Some schools, in fact, encourage students to read this book by keeping it in their libraries. Pakistan does not have loftier literacy rate,[17] and therefore, the popularity or otherwise of any literature is always subject to how the educated people have received information technology.[18]

Release details [edit]

I Am Malala was published on 8 October 2013, by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the UK and Little, Brown and Company in the The states.[19] [twenty] The volume has been translated into more 40 languages.[21]

A children'southward edition of the memoir was published in 2022 under the championship I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Upward for Educational activity and Changed the World.[22] The audio volume edition, narrated by Neela Vaswani, won the 2022 Grammy Laurels for Best Children's Anthology.[23]

References [edit]

  1. ^ Yousafzai, Malala (2013). I Am Malala. Back Bay Books. ISBN978-0-316-32242-3.
  2. ^ Robbins, Sarah J. (12 Oct 2017). "Four Questions with Malala Yousafzai". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on 20 November 2017. Retrieved thirteen December 2017.
  3. ^ Cowdrey, Katherine (12 March 2018). "Malala signs We Are Displaced with Westward&N". The Bookseller. Archived from the original on thirteen March 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
  4. ^ "Malala Yousafzai wins at Specsavers National Book Awards". The Daily Telegraph. eleven December 2013. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  5. ^ "Results for Best Memoir & Autobiography". Goodreads. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  6. ^ "Shortlist announced for the Paddy Power Political Book Awards 2014". Politicos. eleven February 2014. Archived from the original on 12 March 2017. Retrieved x March 2017.
  7. ^ Warsi, Sayeeda (eight Oct 2013). "Malala has turned a tragedy into something positive". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved thirty July 2018.
  8. ^ Jordan, Tina (21 October 2013). "I am Malala". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on ten November 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  9. ^ Nicol, Patricia (19 Dec 2013). "The 20 best non-fiction books of 2013". Metro . Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  10. ^ Roberts, Yvonne (13 Oct 2013). "I Am Malala past Malala Yousafzai – review". The Observer . Retrieved xxx July 2018.
  11. ^ Fatima Bhutto (30 October 2013). "I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 10 Nov 2013. Retrieved 10 Nov 2013.
  12. ^ Bennett-Jones, Owen (26 October 2013). "Malala's vox is defiant — only how much can she change Pakistan?". The Spectator . Retrieved xxx July 2018.
  13. ^ Arana, Maria (11 October 2013). "Book review: 'I Am Malala' by Malala Yousafzai". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on fourteen Oct 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  14. ^ Aziz, Umair; Buncombe, Andrew (10 Nov 2013). "Inspiration or danger? Private schools in Pakistan ban Malala Yousafzai's book". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 10 November 2013. Retrieved ten Nov 2013.
  15. ^ Abbasi, Ansar (22 October 2013). "Malala exposes herself to criticism". The News International. Archived from the original on 16 October 2014. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  16. ^ Crilly, Rob (11 October 2013). "Malala Yousafzai: Taliban threatens shops that sell teenage activist's book". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  17. ^ "Salient Features - 6th Population & Housing Census 2017" (PDF). 2017. Retrieved 7 August 2021. CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  18. ^ Reporter, A. (9 Oct 2013). "I am Malala hits book stores". DAWN.COM . Retrieved 7 Baronial 2021.
  19. ^ Yousafzai, Malala; Lamb, Christina. "I Am Malala". Orion Publishing Group. Archived from the original on 31 July 2018. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  20. ^ "I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai | Little, Brown and Company". Little, Dark-brown and Visitor. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  21. ^ "I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai". Curtis Brown. Retrieved xxx July 2018.
  22. ^ Yousafzai, Malala (2014). I Am Malala: How I Girl Stood Upwardly for Didactics and Inverse the World . Little, Chocolate-brown Books for Immature Readers. ISBN978-0-316-32793-0.
  23. ^ "India's Ricky Kej, Neela Vaswani grab Grammys". The Times of India. nine Feb 2015. Archived from the original on 11 February 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2015.

External links [edit]

  • Official website

lesterbeng1961.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Malala

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