Malala Yousafzai celebrates graduation from Oxford University 9 years after being shot by the Taliban
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai celebrated her graduation from Oxford University.
A year and a half after officially earning the degree, Malala Yousafzai was able to walk at the graduation ceremony that had been delayed by the pandemic.
In photos posted to Instagram and Twitter, Yousafzai posed in her cap and gown on the Oxford campus with the caption, “Some Latin was said and apparently I have a degree”.
Malala’s husband and her parents were present at the graduation ceremony.
Pakistani activist for girls’ education Malala Yousafzai married Asser Malik, General Manager of Pakistan Cricket Board’s High Performance Centre, in an intimate ceremony, called nikkah, in the UK on Tuesday (November 9). The families of the couple were present for the ceremony.
In 2017, Nobel Peace Prize winner and international education activist Malala Yousafzai met with young girls displaced by the Boko Haram crisis. These girls are trying against all odds to continue with their studies.
Malala talked to girls a school at a camp on the outskirts of Maiduguri that is home to more than 21,000 displaced people.
The Nigerian girls were able to share stories of their experiences of Boko Haram and described how violence and insecurity have disrupted their lives and their learning.
Malala Yousafzai is also the world’s youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan had at times banned girls from attending school.
Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former Pakistani Prime Minister Shadid Khagan Abbasi, she has become the country’s “most prominent citizen”.
The daughter of educational activist Ziauddin Yousafzai was born to a Pashtun family in Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Her family came to run a chain of schools in the region.
Reception of Yousafzai in Pakistan is mostly negative. Yousafzai’s opposition to Taliban policy makes her unpopular among Taliban sympathisers.
A Dawn columnist alleges that she is scapegoated by the failing state government, and a journalist in The Nation wrote that Yousafzai is hated by “overzealous patriots” who are keen to deny oppression of women in the country.
