A documentary by Adam B. Ellick follows a Pakistani girl through a perilous six months as she loses her education, is forced into exile and faces an uncertain return back home in Swat, Pakistan. Desperate circumstances can force people to stray from their firmest principles. That’s what I observed during the six months I spent following a family from Pakistan’s Swat Valley who live under the influence of the Taliban. I’ve told their story as I observed it in a two-part documentary for The New York Times. In Part 1, titled “Class Dismissed,” the father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, owns a girls’ school that went bankrupt in January when the Taliban forced him to shut it down. His 11-year-old daughter, Malala, lost her education. More
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World: A Schoolgirl's Odyssey - nytimes.com/video
A documentary by Adam B. Ellick follows a Pakistani girl through a perilous six months as she loses her education, is forced into exile and faces an uncertain return back home in Swat, Pakistan. Desperate circumstances can force people to stray from their firmest principles. That’s what I observed during the six months I spent following a family from Pakistan’s Swat Valley who live under the influence of the Taliban. I’ve told their story as I observed it in a two-part documentary for The New York Times. In Part 1, titled “Class Dismissed,” the father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, owns a girls’ school that went bankrupt in January when the Taliban forced him to shut it down. His 11-year-old daughter, Malala, lost her education. More
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