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Malala Yousafzai first captured the world’s attention when she was attacked by Taliban on her way to school in the Swat Valley, Pakistan, in October 2012. In Anne Frank-style, Malala’s dispatches for the BBC in Urdu, on how much girls like her were worried about their education being disrupted by the Taliban, had already made
her a figure of some prominence in her home country. But when the Taliban shot her for her speaking openly about the importance of education for girls, she became a global symbol of courage.
In the years since, Malala has continued to promote the cause of girls’ education around the world, in addition to becoming the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize recipient in 2014. (She shared the prize with India’s Kailash Satyarthi.) She has also, according to recent reports, attained millionaire status.
Malala Yousafzai first captured the world’s attention when she was attacked by Taliban on her way to school in the Swat Valley, Pakistan, in October 2012. In Anne Frank-style, Malala’s dispatches for the BBC in Urdu, on how much girls like her were worried about their education being disrupted by the Taliban, had already made
her a figure of some prominence in her home country. But when the Taliban shot her for her speaking openly about the importance of education for girls, she became a global symbol of courage.
In the years since, Malala has continued to promote the cause of girls’ education around the world, in addition to becoming the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize recipient in 2014. (She shared the prize with India’s Kailash Satyarthi.) She has also, according to recent reports, attained millionaire status.
