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Malala Yousafzai
Pakistani education activist and Nobel laureate (born 1997)
"Malala" redirects here. For other uses, see Malala (disambiguation).
Malala Yousafzai (Urdu: ملالہ یوسفزئی, Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ, pronunciation: [məˈlaːləjusəfˈzəj];[4] born 12 July 1997)[1][4][5] is a Pakistani female education activist, film and television producer, and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate[6] at the age of 17. She is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history, the second Pakistani and the only Pashtun to receive a Nobel Prize.[7] Yousafzai is a human rights advocate for the education of women and children in her native homeland, Swat, where the Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become Pakistan's "most prominent citizen."[8]
The daughter of education activist Ziauddin Yousafzai, she was born to a Yusufzai Pashtun family in Swat and was named after
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“I don’t want to be famous for being the girl who was shot by the Taliban. I want to be the girl who fights for education,” says Malala. This is her story:
“Which one of you is Malala?” asks the man dressed in white. He hides his face with a bandana.
None of the girls on their way home from school in the back of the minibus say a word. But their faces reveal who Malala is.
The man raises his pistol and fires three rapid shots. The first bullet hits Malala in the head.
Malala has fought long and hard against the Taliban in the Swat Valley in Pakistan, for girls’ right to go to school. Now, at the age of 15, she is close to death.
But when Malala regains consciousness, she has become a symbol for girls’ right to education throughout the world.
When Malala is born, her arrival is not celebrated as much as it would have been if she had been a boy. Many Pashtun people, as people from the Swat Valley are known, believe boys are more important than girls. But Malala’s father Ziauddin is di
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Malala's Story
1997
I was born in Mingora, Pakistan on July 12, 1997.
Welcoming a baby girl is not always cause for celebration in Pakistan — but my father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, was determined to give me every opportunity a boy would have.
2008
My father was a teacher and ran a girls’ school in our village.
I loved school. But everything changed when the Taliban took control of our town in Swat Valley. The extremists banned many things — like owning a television and playing music — and enforced harsh punishments for those who defied their orders. And they said girls could no longer go to school.
In January 2008 when I was just 11 years old, I said goodbye to my classmates, not knowing when — if ever — I would see them again.
2012
I spoke out publicly on behalf of girls and our right to learn. And this made me a target.
In October 2012, on my way home from school, a masked gunman boarded my school bus and asked, “Who is Malala?” He shot me on the left side of my head.
I woke up 10 days later in a hospital in Birmingham, England. The doctors and nurses told me abou
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