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Catch the moving “He Named Me Malala” Monday 2/29 and a Giveaway

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On Monday, February 29, at 8pm est/7pm central, you can catch the moving documentary “He Named Me Malala” on its TV premiere on the National Geographic Channel.  

I remember the first time I saw Malala on TV and heard her story. Her words truly moved me as well as her beauty and grace. Once a target of the Taliban, Malala’s bravery shines through, and, as the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, she is now a leading advocate for children’s rights and girl’s education.

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ABOUT THE MOVIE:
HE NAMED ME MALALA is an intimate portrait of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai, who was targeted by the Taliban and severely wounded by a gunshot when returning home on her school bus in Pakistan’s Swat Valley. The then 15-year-old was singled out, along with her father, for advocating for girls’ education, and the attack on her sparked an outcry from supporters around the world. She miraculously survived and is now a leading campaigner for girls’ education globally as co-founder of the Malala Fund.
 
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, Waiting for Superman) shows us how Malala, her father Zia and her family are committed to fighting for education for all girls worldwide. The film gives us an inside glimpse into this extraordinary young girl’s life – from her close relationship with her father who inspired her love for education, to her impassioned speeches at the UN, to her everyday life with her parents and brothers.

I’m also pleased to be able to offer a giveaway for my readers.

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Enter below to win a copy of the book: I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

 

 

 

This giveaway is open to those in the US. If you have won the same prize on another blog, you will not be eligible to win it again.

 

Connect:

Visit the sites: #HeNamedMeMalala and/or #WithMalala

This is a sponsored post on behalf of Review Wire Media for Nat Geo. I received information to facilitate my review as well as a promotional item to thank me for my participation.

Inspiration Tuesday

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“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens.

But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive.

You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.”
― Chuck Close

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