A portrait of Nobel Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai was unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery in London. The portrait was painted by a New York-based Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat.
Moreover, the painting had an inscribe poem in Pashto titled ‘To the Malala of the Maiwand on her rebirth’ by Rahmaat Shah Saail.
A London-based Twitter user Nadir Cheema took to his Twitter and tweeted about the painting.
He said, “Malala’s portrait unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery painted by Shirin Neshat.”
Malala’s portrait unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery painted by Shirin Neshat.
Inscribed poem in Pashto ‘To the Malala of the Maiwand on her rebirth’ by Rahmaat Shah Saail.
He wrote the poem before Malala was attacked. @NPG @NPGLondon @ZiauddinY @malala @MalalaFund pic.twitter.com/mpDdjFmqqd— Nadir Cheema (@NadirCheema) October 1, 2018
He further stated that the poem by Rahmaat Shah was written before Malala was attacked.
“Inscribed poem in Pashto ‘To the Malala of the Maiwand on her rebirth’ by Rahmaat Shah Saail. He wrote the poem before Malala was attacked,” he tweeted.
Yousafzai has been a strong advocate for girls’ education ever since she was a child, which resulted in the Taliban issuing a death threat against her.
On October 9, 2012, a gunman shot Malala when she was travelling home from school.
Earlier this year, a school built with Malala’s Nobel Prize money became operative in her home district of Shangla in Swat region. She is also currently a student at the University of Oxford.