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Let Her Fly: A Father's Journey Kindle Edition
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With humor and sincerity, Yousafzai describes his life before the Talibanization of Mingora, scenes of his sons Khusal and Atal fighting kites on the roof, his progressive partnership with his wife Toor Pekai, and the challenge of raising children in an unfamiliar country.
After Malala was shot by the Taliban, the Yousafzai family was completely uprooted from their home in the Swat Valley and forced to start over in the United Kingdom. Now, Ziauddin expresses the complex pain and joy of his return, six years later, to the site of Malala's attack. Let Her Fly is an intimate family portrait by the father of one of the most remarkable leaders in the world today.
Ziauddin and Toor Pakai have set a singular example for parents who hope to empower their children to make a difference. Let Her Fly will resonate with anyone who has ever cared for a child, as Ziauddin Yousafzai shares what he's learned from his children, and what he hopes to teach the world.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherLittle, Brown and Company
- Publication dateNovember 13, 2018
- File size15499 KB
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"Yousafzai, father of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai, movingly tells his life story, focusing primarily on his journey from the Swat Mountains of Northwest Pakistan to Birmingham, England to protect his daughter...Those interested in learning more about Malala's incredible life will be enriched by her father's deeply personal account of courage and perseverance during a life of activism."―Publisher's Weekly
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- ASIN : B07B89XGRM
- Publisher : Little, Brown and Company (November 13, 2018)
- Publication date : November 13, 2018
- Language : English
- File size : 15499 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 177 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,650,902 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #747 in Fatherhood (Kindle Store)
- #882 in Biographies of Social Activists
- #1,558 in Feminist Theory (Kindle Store)
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Ziauddin it turns out is a warrior in his own right. I believe the West at least, many men who call themselves feminists are just practicing an academic exercise. Or, more insidiously, trying to trick and seduce enlightened women.
Not so for Mr. Yousafzai. He's a man that 'walks the walk'. In one of the most repressive patriarchal societies on Earth today, he risked much, including danger, to help tear down (peacefully) some of the norms that enslaved women in that country.
To my way of thinking, he's much more than just the dad of a Great Person. He certainly blazed the trail that she walks now, and should be as honored as much as his famous daughter.
On the other hand, it was interesting to read her story, THEIR story, through dad's eyes. Malala, seems to me, has the potential to be one of the great persons of our generation (if she's not there already). It's not often you get a parent's take on the life of such a person.
This man has a light shining from the inside of his soul, guiding his path towards change and the courage it takes to create it. What I especially love about the book is the honesty that comes through. The biggest challenge for his advocacy for women's rights wasn't the Taliban or conservative people around him. It was the inner fight against old Ziauddin, who was raised as a privileged man in a patriarchal society, and the Ziaduddin with longing for a new world... And what a world he created for all of us, by raising his Malala.
I love the way he has structured the book with a chapter for each of his family relationships. When I read about his relationship to wife Toor Pekai, I came to a sentence that echoes what I had been saying on the same stage at the book fair, just an hour before I listened to Ziauddin. I was one of the authors in a panel about Women in the UAE. And I commented how all of us suffer from oppression an inequality, echoed in this is a quote in Ziauddin's book, where he writes about being newly wedded and behaving differently than the men around him in the village, p94: "What I discovered was that in feeling Pekai's freedom with me, I, too, felt free. She enriched my life by being herself."
This is a wonderful reading experience, my wish is that all men around the world gets to enjoy this book.
Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2019
This man has a light shining from the inside of his soul, guiding his path towards change and the courage it takes to create it. What I especially love about the book is the honesty that comes through. The biggest challenge for his advocacy for women's rights wasn't the Taliban or conservative people around him. It was the inner fight against old Ziauddin, who was raised as a privileged man in a patriarchal society, and the Ziaduddin with longing for a new world... And what a world he created for all of us, by raising his Malala.
I love the way he has structured the book with a chapter for each of his family relationships. When I read about his relationship to wife Toor Pekai, I came to a sentence that echoes what I had been saying on the same stage at the book fair, just an hour before I listened to Ziauddin. I was one of the authors in a panel about Women in the UAE. And I commented how all of us suffer from oppression an inequality, echoed in this is a quote in Ziauddin's book, where he writes about being newly wedded and behaving differently than the men around him in the village, p94: "What I discovered was that in feeling Pekai's freedom with me, I, too, felt free. She enriched my life by being herself."
This is a wonderful reading experience, my wish is that all men around the world gets to enjoy this book.