Malala's revenge: from the Nobel to the degree at Oxford
From Pakistan to Oxford. From the Nobel Peace Prize to a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. At just 22, Malala achieves another great milestone by completing her studies at the prestigious University of Oxford.He announces this by posting some shots on his Instagram page accompanied by the following caption:
"Difficult to express my joy and gratitude right now after completing my degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford"
A "normal" girl
Despite her activism, Malala is a girl like any other and the photos in which she is immortalized during the graduation party prove it. In addition to the canonical celebrations with the family, the young woman, as usual, gets covered in foam and confetti and looks proudly into the room with a genuine smile that reveals all the emotion for a dream that has finally come true.
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A young woman's struggle for the right to education
Education has always been at the top of Malala's list of priorities. She was just a girl of just 14 when, with immense courage, she started writing on a BBC blog in Urdu, the official language of Pakistan, under the pseudonym of Gul Makai, to denounce the abuses of the Taliban regime and carry on the battle for the - inalienable - right of women to education.
“When I was 11, I woke up one morning and could no longer go to school because the Taliban had banned the education of girls from Swat, the region of Pakistan where I was born ", he had told a few years ago during an interview. This was the straw that broke the camel's back. A vessel full and overflowing with oppression and violence that Malala and girls like her were forced to suffer every day, with no hopes or prospects for the future.
The attack, the new life in England and the Nobel Prize
But she is not there and decides to rebel by putting pen to paper the terrible conditions of oppression to which women in Pakistan were subjected. Unfortunately, this commitment costs her dearly and in 2012 Malala is the victim of a terrorist attack by the same regime she was fighting against, which wants to punish her by shooting her in the head. On this tragic occasion, the whole world learns of her extraordinary work and the hospital in Birmingham, United Kingdom, opens the doors to operate her, saving her life. It is there that Malala and her family begin a new life, without forgetting what they left behind. Together they found the Malala Fund, a non-profit organization that promotes the right to education of girls around the world.
The activism of the young Pakistani woman was officially recognized in 2014 when, at 17, she was the youngest winner of a Nobel Peace Prize, awarded to her "For its fight against the oppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education".
The meeting with Greta Thunberg
It was in Oxford that a few months ago Malala met her snack and activism partner Greta Thunberg. Together they had discussed environmentalism and human rights, uniting their great and young minds to devise a plan with which to change the fate of the world. Greta herself admitted with an Instagram post that she has always looked to Malala as a role model and that she was inspired by her in her battle against climate change.
Today he is enjoying some well-deserved rest
Today Malala is finally enjoying the serenity she was deprived of in the past and, like any recent graduate, declares that she is no longer in her skin at the thought of recovering the hours of lost sleep with long sleeps and binge-watching on Netflix. . We will call it "the warrior's rest", more than deserved!
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