{"id":204845,"date":"2025-12-26T11:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T11:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/204845\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T11:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T11:40:10","slug":"the-nobel-peace-prize-winner-on-how-sport-can-give-hope-to-refugees-and-women-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/204845\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nobel Peace Prize winner on how sport “can give hope” to refugees and women around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

Malala Yousafzai: “You realise how precious peace is” in this film<\/p>\n

The 76-minute film was directed and edited by Ben Sturgulewski and filmed over a series of years, including in 2019 in Bamyan, prior to the Taliban taking back power in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

As the viewer gets to know the ski school and is enveloped around the excitement of the Afghan Ski Challenge, Alishah’s life as a refugee in Germany is dripped through the narrative with beautifully shot sections in black and white.<\/p>\n

“I love when\u00a0Alisha talks about peace,” says Yousafzai. “It’s so hard to define what peace is, but he feels it. And it’s that feeling that you have when you are enjoying a moment like simply skiing with your friends, or laughing together… and you realise that you are safe, or you don’t have hear bombings and firing and every moment.<\/p>\n

“When you see this documentary, you realise how precious peace is to the Afghan people.”<\/p>\n

Yousafzai, 27, is the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner ever, and has turned her advocacy into a global effort, often focusing in on the refugee experience. The UNHCR, the United Nations’ refugee agency, estimated<\/a> earlier this year that some 117 million people have been forced to flee their homes, with 43 million of them classified as refugees.<\/p>\n

Alishah is one of them, fleeing Afghanistan in 2021 and settling with his family in Germany. In one scene, he’s seen strolling the aisles of a grocery store filled with Western products and explaining just how out of place he feels.<\/p>\n

“No one is taking my freedom, but I don’t feel free,” Farhang says in the documentary. “Not knowing people, not knowing the area, not even knowing the culture… it’s difficult to do for a Muslim. People look at you in a different way. Your background is just refugee. I wish they knew that we never had anything to do with extremism in Afghanistan and war. We were just normal people doing normal life.”<\/p>\n

It’s a powerful thread that Moayed says resonates with him – and he is sure will sting for audiences, as well.<\/p>\n

“[It’s] so powerful because what he’s really saying is, ‘I’m just like you,'” details Moayed. “Because everybody in their community has a coach that they love. And so these types of small little stories are really impactful to humanising people that have been dehumanised for too long.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Malala Yousafzai: “You realise how precious peace is” in this film The 76-minute film was directed and edited…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-204845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}