1. CURRENT EVENT
BY ENEYA JENKINS

2. Education in Pakistan
versus Cordoba
 Cordoba, Spain was a center of learning in 756 AD.
 Cordoba was a center of learning where women could
attend university.
 Today Pakistan is an Islamic country like Cordoba
 Although Pakistan culture does not promote girls
schooling.
 Pakistani culture promotes women to stay home and do
housework and childcare.
 Cordoba 1,200 years ago, promoted women’s education
more than Pakistan does today.

3. Education in Pakistan
Girls in Middle Eastern countries like
Pakistan are not educated like us.
Keeping girls uneducated limits their
independence.
Their culture is run by men who keep
women suppressed.
Girls in Pakistan do not have
opportunities we have in the United
States.
Malala’s story is about changing girls
rights through education.

4. Courage
 Malala’ has been fighting for girls education in
Pakistan since she was 12 years old.
 In her town, Swat, only 1 in 5 girls went to
school.
 In 2009, the Taliban banned girls from going to
school in Swat and Malala spoke out against
them.
 At 12, her family was forced to leave because the
Taliban and Pakistani army fought in Swat.
 Beheadings in Swat’s town center were so
common that they called it “Slaughter Square”.
 Her family returned to Swat and things improved
for a while.
 At 15, she was shot on October 12, 2012 by the
Taliban on her way home from school.
Girls walk through a
school that was destroyed
by Taliban in 2009.

5. Malala’s Fight
 The Taliban said they shot her for speaking out against
them.
 The Taliban was not known for shooting females and
children.
 Malala continued to speak for girl’s education.
 Even without the Taliban, most girls would not get an
education because of the Pakistani culture.
 Malala’s voice is heard worldwide due to her story and
courage.

6. Noble Peace Prize
 At 17, she received the Noble
Peace Prize.
 A world re-known award for
promoting world peace.
 Malala’s words include:
“Let us pick up our books and
pens because they are our most
powerful weapons. One teacher,
one child, one book, and one pen
can change the world. Education
is the only solution. Education
first.”

7. DATES
Interviews with Malala by reporters began in 2008.
Malala was shot in October 2011.
She received the Noble Peace Prize in 2014.
Cordoba thrived over a thousand years ago, yet
Pakistan’s education for girls is still behind
Cordoba’s.

8. IMPACT
Many Middle Eastern countries like Pakistan are
impacted by their religion, Islam.
Malala’s fight promotes children’s rights and
education in countries all over the world.
Hopefully her fight will help give children
opportunities like we have in the United States.