Saturday, March 1 at 2pm:  Todt Hill-Westerleigh Branch Library, 2550 Victory Blvd (near Willowbrook Rd), SINY 10314

Staten Island OutLOUD hosts a reading/conversation on I Am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai.  This special event is presented in honor of Women In History Month.  Co-hosted by Joan Harmon.

Malala Yousafzai is a teenage educational activist who grew up in the Swat district of Pakistan’s Kyber Pass area.  In 2012, she was shot in the face by a Taliban gunman in an assassination attempt, because she and her father were staunch supporters of education for girls.  But Malala would not be defeated.  After recovering from her wounds, she redoubled her work, and the world’s support has rallied attention to her cause.  As a result of her efforts, Pakistan ratified its first Right to Education Bill, and the United Nations launched a petition in favor of universal education for all children around the world

. Malala addressed the UN in 2013 to urge universal education. She was the first winner of Pakistan’s National Youth Peace Prize, and has also been awarded the Sakharov Prize, and the Simone de Beauvoir Prize. Malala is the youngest person (and the first girl) ever to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.  Malala now lives with her family in Birmingham, England.