LONDON – A portrait of Nobel Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai is being displayed at the National Portrait Gallery in London. The portrait is being painted by a New York-based Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat.
Along with the painting, there is an inscribed poem in Pashto titled ‘To the Malala of the Maiwand on her rebirth’ by Rahmat Shah Sail.
A London-based Twitterati Nadir Cheema posted related to the art piece saying: “Malala’s portrait unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery painted by Shirin Neshat.”
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Cheema also mentioned that the poem by Rahmat Shah was written before Malala was attacked. “ written prose in Pashto ‘To the Malala of the Maiwand on her rebirth’ by Rahmat Shah Sail. He wrote the poem before Malala was attacked” wrote in the tweet.
Yousafzai has been a strong advocate for girls’ education ever since she was a child, which resulted in the Taliban issuing a death threat against her. Yousafzai was born to a Pashtun family in Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Her family came to run a chain of schools in the region.
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Yousafzai is an admirer of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Benazir Bhutto and she was particularly inspired by her father’s thoughts and humanitarian work.
In early 2009, when she was 11–12, she wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC Urdu detailing her life during the Taliban occupation of Swat. In 2012, a gunman shot Malala when she was traveling home from school.
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Malala is surely a role model for all the young girls out there who want to achieve high in life.
