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Malala Yousafzai has returned to her hometown in Pakistan, 13 years after she was shot in the head by the Taliban.. The 27-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner shared a picture of herself in the ...
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban is an autobiographical book by Malala Yousafzai, co-written with Christina Lamb. It was published on 8 October 2013, by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the UK and Little, Brown and Company in the US.
The family did not have enough money for a hospital birth and Yousafzai was born at home with the help of neighbours. [31] She was given her first name Malala (meaning "grief-stricken") [32] after Malalai of Maiwand, a famous Pashtun poet and warrior woman from southern Afghanistan. [33]
Ziauddin Yousafzai is a Pakistani education activist. He has three children, a daughter—Malala Yousafzai—and two sons—Khushal and Atal. After writing an anonymous blog for BBC Urdu and being subject to a New York Times documentary Class Dismissed, Malala began gaining a public profile as an advocate for female education and for speaking about the conditions of life under the growing ...
Yousafzai survived being shot in the head when she was 15 in her native Pakistan by a gunman after campaigning against the Pakistani Taliban's moves to deny girls education.
Clinton then reached out to Malala Yousafzai, whom Taub had also written about becoming a producer. As secretary of state, Clinton had gotten to know the Pakistani education activist who was shot ...
Shahid flew to Birmingham, where Yousafzai was hospitalized after being shot by Taliban members, to offer assistance to Yousafzai and her family to help them recover. [10] Shahid and Malala co-founded the Malala Fund in 2013 with the aim of creating access to safe and high-quality education among girls in Pakistan and the African countries of ...
Years later, she was shot in the head at the age of 15 on her school bus by a Taliban member in October 2012. She and her father continued to receive death threats from the terrorist group after ...