Malala Yousafzai is a girl education campaigner from Pakistan who won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. She is the youngest Nobel Prize winner ever, the second Pakistani, and the first Pashtun to do so. She received the award when she was just 17 years old. She is well-known for advocating for human rights, particularly the education of women and children in Swat, where the Pakistani Taliban have occasionally forbade girls from attending school. According to former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become Pakistan's "most renowned citizen" and her activism has expanded into a global movement. She was unpopular with Taliban sympathisers because of her resistance to the programme of Talibanization. A columnist for Dawn claimed she was used as a scapegoat by the "failed state administration," while a journalist for The Nation claimed Yousafzai was despised by "overzealous nationalists" eager to downplay the tyranny of women in Pakistan. Yousafzai wed Asser Malik, a manager for the Pakistan Cricket Board, on November 9, 2021 in Birmingham.
Malala Yusuf, Noble peace prize winner and executive producer of the Oscar-nominated short documentary “Stranger at the Gate proudly states that the movie is a compelling genuine narrative of forgiveness and redemption and that she hopes the movie will encourage every audience to confront their presumptions and be compassionate to everyone they encounter. The movie won an award at the 2022 Tribeca Festival and it narrates the story of a former U.S. Solider with PTSD who planned to destroy a mosque but ended up converting to Islam. The New Yorker releases the Joshua Seftel-directed documentary “Stranger at the Gate” as a part of the New Yorker Documentary series. Yousafzai spoke before the UN on July 12, 2013, her 16th birthday, to promote universal access to education. It was declared "Malala Day" by the UN.
