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I am Malala: How a Girl Stood Up for Education and Change the World

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"Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow. Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human," said Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani girl, publicly raised her voice in the favor of female education. On October 9, 2014, she was shot point-blank range on the head while coming back from school by Taliban in apparent attempt to silence her. 
However, by the grace of God, she survived the attack that no one expected. This fatal attack gave her a global voice that she has been using to fight for female education on a global scale. Her fight earned her a Nobel Prize in 2014 when she was just 17-year-old, making her the youngest winner of this honor of all time. Now she is an international symbol of peaceful protest. 
Malala grew up in an untroubled area of Pakistan, which eventually transformed into terror for residents. She was only ten-year-old when the Taliban took over her region. They said music ...