I Am Malala

^{Dr Fiona and Dr Javid by my bedside}

^{First days in the Birmingham hospital}

^{Reading in hospital}

^{Our headmistress, Madam Maryam (left), with Shazia, one of the girls who was shot with me}

^{My friends keep a chair in class for me (far right)}

^{Sir Amjad, head of the boys’ school, greets my poster every morning}

^{Here I am at the UN with Ban Ki-moon, Gordon Brown, family and friends}

^{Speaking at the UN on my sixteenth birthday}

^{With my mother in Medina}

^{Here we are outside our new home in Birmingham}

Additional Credits and Thanks

Picture section

SECTION 1

P4 bottom © Copyright Justin Sutcliffe 2013.

SECTION 2

P2 top © Kh Awais

P2 bottom © Copyright Asad Hashim/Al Jazeera. Courtesy of Al Jazeera English (AlJazeera.com).

P3 top, bottom, P4 top © Copyright University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. Used with the kind permission of The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.

P5 bottom © Copyright Justin Sutcliffe 2013.

P6 top © UN Photo / Eskinder Debebe. Used with the kind permission of the United Nations Photo Library.

bottom © UN Photo / Rick Bajornas. Used with the kind permission of the United Nations Photo Library.

P8 © Antonio Olmos 2013.

Text

With grateful thanks to:

The Jinnah Archive (www.jinnaharchive.com) for the use of selections from the work of Quaid-i-Azam M.A. Jinnah.

Rahmat Shah Sayel for use of his poems.

For help with the translations of tapey from Pashto, thanks to my father’s friends Mr Hamayun Masaud, Mr Muhammad Amjad, Mr Ataurrahman and Mr Usman Ulasyar.

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