Malala Yousafzai is Harvard Humanitarian of the year
Malala Yousafzai, the 16 year-old Pakistani girl who was shot on Oct. 9, 2012, in an assassination attempt for expressing her philosophy of gender equality in education and who famously said, “I want every girl, every child, to be educated,” will receive the 2013 Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award. The ceremony will be held on Sept. 27 at 4 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. “The Harvard Foundation is proud to present its 2013 Humanitarian Award to Malala Yousafzai, and to host her at Harvard University as our special guest,” said S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation and professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School. “Malala is a young woman of exceptional courage and a tireless advocate for gender equality in educational opportunities for girls worldwide.” Yousafzai will be accompanied by Junaid Khan, the neurosurgeon credited with saving her life. He will be introduced by Harvard Medical School Dean Jeffrey S. Flier...