Ready Reference Treatise: I am Malala

By Raja Sharma

"I am Malala" by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb was first published on 8th October, 2013. It is Malala Yousafzai's autobiography.

Christina Lamb helped the author write the book, and then she reviewed the book. The book was also made into a movie called "He Named Me Malala."

Both the book and movie were successful and the author received various positive reviews.

The author, Malala Yousafzai, was born on 12th July 1997 in the Swat District of Pakistan. The district is in the North-Western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

Ready Reference Treatise: I am Malala
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Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Plot Overview
Chapter Three: Major Characters
Chapter Four: Complete Summary
Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Aug 22, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370339549

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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Chapter One: Introduction

I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb was first published on 8th October, 2013. It is Malala Yousafzai's autobiography.

Christina Lamb helped the author write the book, and then she reviewed the book. The book was also made into a movie called He Named Me Malala.

Both the book and movie were successful and the author received various positive reviews.

The author, Malala Yousafzai, was born on 12th July 1997 in the Swat District of Pakistan. The district is in the North-Western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

Malala was born into a Sunni Muslim family of Pashtun ethnicity. Malala means "grief-stricken’ in their local language. She was named after a famous Pashtun poet and warrior woman from Southern Afghanistan. That poet was called Malalai of Maiwand.

Yousafzai, her last name, comes from a large Pashtun tribal confederation in Swat Valley in Pakistan. Malala grew up in that region. Her parents had their house in Mingora. Malala lived with her parents, Ziauddin and Tok Pekai, her two younger brothers, Khushal and Atal, and their two pet chickens.

Malala speaks Pashto, English, and Urdu fluently. Her father took the responsibility of her education in her childhood. He would teach her with complete dedication. Her father is a poet and the owner of a school. He is also an educational activist.

Ziauddin, Malala’s father, has a chain of private schools and they are called Khushal Public School.

During one interview, Malala once told the interviewer that she wanted to become a doctor, but her father encouraged her to become a politician.

Her father called her something entirely special. She was allowed to stay up at night and talk about politics. She often talked with her father about politics after her two younger brothers had been sent to bed in another room.

In the month of September 2008, Malala spoke for education rights for the first time. She was with her father who had brought her to speak at the local press club. During her speech, she vehemently asked the audience how the Taliban dared take away her basic right to education.

Her speech was much publicized and most of the newspapers across the country published it. It was shown on several television channels in the Swat district and other regions.

In the following year, i. e. 2009, she started as a trainee and then became a peer educator in the institute for War and Peace Reporting’s Open Minds Pakistan youth programme. That institute encouraged the young students at schools to get engaged in constructive discussions on social issues. They were told to use the tools of journalism, public debates, and dialogue.

Malala started a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC Urdu telling the world about her life under Taliban occupation. She tried to tell the world how the Taliban were trying to take control of the Swat Valley. She presented her views on promoting education for girls in the Swat Valley.

The next year, Adam B. Ellick made a documentary on her life for New York Times. People began to talk about that girl named Malala. She began to appear in interviews in print and on