Malala’s new book to focus on refugee experience
Los Angeles: Nobel peace prize winner Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai has announced her next book We Are Displaced.
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers has acquired the rights of the book, which will focus on the refugee experience and is described as an introduction for young readers to “what it means to lose your home, your community, and the only world you’ve ever known.”
According to Entertainment Weekly, Yousafzai will begin by recounting her own experience, and then share personal stories of those she has met on journeys to various refugee camps and the cities where refugee girls and their families have settled.
“What tends to get lost in the current refugee crisis is the humanity. We hear about millions of refugees, hundreds of migrants trapped on a boat or in a truck.” London: Two London mosques were given special listed status on Tuesday in recognition of their architectural and historic importance, in a move a government minister said celebrated “the rich heritage of Muslim communities in England”.
The London Central Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre in Regent’s Park, central London, and the Fazl Mosque in the southwest of the British capital were both listed as Grade II buildings by the government’s culture department.
The special Grade II status is awarded to just 5.8 per cent of approximately 500,000 listed buildings in England, marking them out as particularly important sites and giving them greater protection.
“By listing these beautiful mosques, we are not only preserving important places of worship, but also celebrating the rich heritage of Muslim communities in England,” said Heritage Minister Michael Ellis.
A fund to establish a central London mosque was set up in 1910, but the Regent’s Park location was only secured in the 1940s and building work was finally completed in 1977.