Malala Yousafzai

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Malala Yousafzai in 2014.

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for girls' education. When she was a schoolgirl in October 2012, she was the target of an assassination attempt by the Pakistani Taliban. Since then she has been living in Birmingham, United Kingdom, both to continue medical treatment and to protect her against a repeat attempt on her life.

Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. At age seventeen, she is the youngest Nobel laureate in history.

[edit] Early life

Yousafzai was born in 1997 in the Swat region of northern Pakistan. Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, is himself an education activist and runs a network of schools in Pakistan. "Yousafzai" is not truly a Western-style surname, but the name of Malala and Ziauddin's tribe.

When Yousafzai was 11, the Pakistani Taliban took over the region. They came in the night (much like vampires) and gradually introduced Sharia law, forbidding music, requiring women to be veiled in public, and closing girls' schools (not so much like vampires). During this period, Yousafzai began writing a blog for BBC Urdu, detailing her experiences.

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