Nasser Azam female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. Standing three metres high, the portrait indicates the enormous impact Yousafzai has had on the world. Malala first attracted public attention through her anonymous diary published on BBC website, detailing life under Taliban occupation in Pakistan, and their attempts to ban education for girls. In 2012, Malala narrowly avoided death after being shot by the Pakistani Taliban militants for her outspoken campaigning. After numerous interventions and intensive rehabilitation at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, United Kingdom Malala has made a full recovery and continued her mission for the right of all
Crouch End Festival Chorus scale choral works by James McCarthy: "17 Days" (2012), which explores the emotional landscape of the Chilean mining accident of 2010, and "Malala" (2014), inspired by the story of Nobel peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai. Will Todd chose a setting of Dylan Thomas’s "Rage Against the Dying of the Light" for the second of four works commissioned to celebrate CEFC’s 30th Birthday in 2014. In 2015, CEFC gave the first performance of Roland Perrin's "Lansky: The Mob’s Money Man", a fusion of New York and Cuban jazz and traditional Jewish Klezmer music written for jazz singer, narrator, choir and jazz