Biography of Malala Yousafzai

Malala was born on the twelfth of july of nineteen ninety seven in the Swat river Valley of
northwest Pakistan.
Her family consists of her parents Toorpekai and Ziauddin, and her two brothers Khushal
and Atal.
His parents ran a network of schools.
When Malala was ten years old, she spoke three languages: Pashto, Urdu and English and
wanted to become a doctor.
The life of Malala changed in two thousand seven because this year the Taliban army took
control of the area where Malala lived.
The taliban army banned cultural activities such as dancing and television. They also
banned girls from attending school, thereby destroying many female schools.
Malala did not hide and when she was eleven years old she began to give speeches in
various social forums defending the right of girls to education and participated in various
aid programs for young students in the region.
Malala was featured in a debate on Pakistani television, thus becoming a public figure in
the area and bringing attention to the Taliban.
In two thousand nine the BBC in Pakistan decided to find a student from the Swat Valley to
write a blog on their website to explain what it was like to live under the influence of the
Taliban.
Malala told her experience to the world under the pseudonym "Gul Makai" and wrote down
her stories on paper and secretly handed them to a reporter.
On the morning of October ninth, two thousand twelve, Malala was on her way to school
with her friends when two members of the Taliban army stopped the bus and shot her three
times, one of them in the forehead.
She was wounded and was taken by helicopter to a hospital in England, many people came
out to protest and the news spread around the world.
Malala created a foundation with her father in two thousand three to help other child
victims.
When Malala was seventeen years old, she won the Nobel Peace Prize for her fight for the
right of all children to education and became the young winner in history.
In two thousand seventeen she wrote the book I am Malala and in two thousand nineteen
she wrote my story.
Malala currently lives with her family in England, studying philosophy, politics and
economics at Oxford University College.