I am malala by malala yousafzai5/20/2023 Of course, our own seemingly pedestrian struggles can feel a bit unremarkable in comparison. “I determined to continue my fight until every girl could go to school.” In the years since, she’s coauthored a bestselling memoir, opened a girls’ school in Lebanon for Syrian refugees, and continued to fight for the education and rights of girls and women. “It was then I knew I had a choice: I could live a quiet life or I could make the most of this new life I had been given,” she says of surviving the attack. On October 9, 2012, when she was just 15 years old, a gunman sought her out and shot her in the head while she was on a school bus returning from an exam. Her outspoken and public profile, however, “made me a target,” she says. By the time she was a teenager, Yousafzai had already gained significant recognition for her stance against the Taliban regime and advocacy for girls’ education. Yousafzai’s father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, is a noted education activist in his own right, and served as inspiration for her own philosophies. Born on July 12, 1997, Yousafzai was named after Afghan heroine Malalai of Maiwand, who famously won an Afghan victory during the Second Anglo-Afghan War in the late 19th century.
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