6/21/2023 0 Comments I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai![]() ![]() She talks about how it was like growing up in the beautiful Swat Valley, the Switzerland of Pakistan, and how the Taliban had tried to eradicate all that was wonderful in her homeland-their culture, their history, their art, architecture and music, and the Pashtun way of life. ![]() In I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban, Malala Yousafzai (with the help of Christine Lamb) bravely tells her story. Almost overnight, Malala Yousafzai became the face and the voice of all Pakistani girls who were struggling to get an education at a time when the Taliban was blowing up their schools and demanding purdah or risk violence or even death. ![]() The Taliban bullet was intended to silence the young woman forever, but instead, it only served to make Malala’s voice louder-and this time the whole world was listening. The man aimed at her and fired three shots, one of which hit Malala square in the left eye socket. Though none of her schoolmates had answered, some of the girls had looked over at her. A young man boarded the van and asked a single question, “Who is Malala?” On October 9, 2012, 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai was on her way home from school when her school bus was stopped just a few hundred meters from a checkpoint in Swat Valley. It was a shooting that inspired outrage throughout the globe. ![]()
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