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Ziauddin Yousafzai is an educator, human rights campaigner and social activist. He hails from Pakistani’s Swat Valley where, at great personal risk among grave political violence, he peacefully resisted the Taliban’s efforts to shut down schools and kept open his own school. He also inspired his daughter, Malala Yousafzai, to raise her voice to promote the rights of children to an education.
Ziauddin is the co-founder and serves as the Chairman of the Board for the Malala Fund. He also serves as the United Nations Special Advisor on Global Education and also the educational attaché to the Pakistani Consulate in Birmingham, UK.
Ziauddin currently resides in Birmingham, UK.
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ZIAUDDIN YOUSAFZAI: I think Malala is an average girl, but there are something ... would be interested to know how you sustained yourself through that period?
Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, Waiting For Superman) examines how Malala, her father Zia and her family are committed to fighting for education for all girls worldwide...
Refugee families in Europe today share a common story: displaced from their country in fear for their lives, driven to flee to the West, and facing a gruelling challenge of setting up a new life in a foreign country – but still longing for their old one, mourning what they’ve been forced to leave behind.
Ziauddin Yousafzai considers himself “blessed” to be known by his Nobel Peace Prize-winning daughter.
Malala Yousafzai's father Ziauddin slammed presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday for his comments about Muslim immigrants.
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