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There is a
story to Malala Yousafzai’s improbable transformation from a quiet, deferential
11-year-old living near Pakistan’s tribal areas to a teenage spokeswoman for
girls’ education. Malala, shot in the head by the Taliban last year, has been
nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, to be announced on Friday.
It begins with her determined father, Ziauddin
Yousafzai, but gets pushed forward by intense news media coverage of her daring
campaign. I met Malala in 2009, when she was determined to defy the odds and
become a doctor. I spent six months making two documentaries about her life
that helped bring her brave campaign to the world, transforming her into a
public figure. After the Taliban tried to silence her, The New York Times wove
the footage together into a single, 32-minute documentary.
Since the attack last October, I have at times
struggled with a question journalists often confront: By giving her a platform,
did I inadvertently play a role in her shooting? I wanted to understand how
this all unfolded so I began combing through nearly 20 hours of unseen footage
of the family long before they were coached by publicists, and before they had
signed multimillion-dollar book and movie deals.
While my original documentary tells the story of
Malala’s struggle for education in the face of the Taliban, this back story
also raises
some sobering and difficult questions. Malala was a
brave young girl, advocating for a better future for all girls in her country,
but was it fair for her to fight so publicly in such a dangerous environment?
Or was she thrust into the limelight by adults captivated by the power of a
child staring down the Taliban?
Given Malala’s re-emergence on the world stage —
healing from her wounds and nominated for the Nobel — I thought it was a good
time to answer the five questions people often ask me about how I came to know
this resilient young woman.
How did you find Malala?
YOUR
REACTION
Please share your thoughts on Malala Yousafzai's story or ask Adam B.
Ellick, the reporter, a question.
In December 2008, while working as a reporter in
The Times’s bureau in Afghanistan, I read a small news article
in the Pakistani press about how the Taliban in the Swat Valley planned to ban girls’
education in January 2009. The ban would affect 50,000 schoolgirls, and I was
astonished that the story was not being more aggressively reported in the
media.
When I went to Pakistan to report, a courageous
Pakistani journalist who had reported in Swat, Irfan Ashraf, introduced me to a
private school owner, Ziauddin Yousafzai, who was campaigning to save his
business. He showed up with his 11-year-old daughter, Malala.
After a lengthy interview with Zia, I asked him if
I could ask Malala a few questions. She began answering in Pashtu, and Irfan
translated. After about 10 minutes, I realized from Malala’s facial expressions
that she understood my questions. I interrupted to ask if she spoke English,
and she said, “Yes, I was just saying there is a fear in my heart.” I turned to
Zia and Irfan and said: “What’s wrong with you people? She speaks better
English then the rest of you and you are translating for her!” We all laughed.
When I sat across Malala on the floor that day, it
certainly never occurred to me that this shy girl would become so prominent.
Why would her father participate in such a
documentary, knowing the dangers?
By Adam B. Ellick and Irfan Ashraf
A 2009 documentary by Adam B. Ellick profiled
Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani girl whose school was shut down by the Taliban.
Ms. Yousafzai was shot by a gunman on Oct. 9, 2012.
When we first met, I saw Zia as a middleman,
someone who could introduce me to a family affected by the crisis in Swat. He
quickly said no family would agree. Later that day, we discussed if his family
could be documented. He was cautious, but intrigued. He saw The Times as a
megaphone to the outside world. His friend Fazal Maula Zahid, an activist who
co-founded a local organization advocating for peace in Swat, sat with us
during our first interview. He bluntly told Ziaudin that the crisis demanded
that they serve as agents of change. A lot was being said in Pashtu as well, so
I didn’t understand all of the discussions. As Zia described the harrowing
dangers in Swat, I became skittish. It was the only time in my career that a
source was becoming increasingly interested in a story, while I was becoming
increasingly tentative.
This article has been revised to reflect the
following correction:
Correction: October 9, 2013
An earlier
version of this article incorrectly stated the year that the Taliban planned to
ban girls’ education in Swat. The year was 2009, not 2010.
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TEACHER MISTEREDIO
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