I Am Malala The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban Malala Yousafzai

What’s it like to grow up in a society where women and girls have few rights, and a terrorist group is trying to take away the only freedoms they do have? What can one person do to combat violent extremism that is destroying everything she loves?In I Am Malala, Nobel Peace Prize winner and girls’ education activist Malala Yousafzai answers these questions by recounting her life story—from her origins in poverty to her campaign for girls’ education in Pakistan to her eventual shooting at the hands of the Taliban. Part memoir, part history of the Taliban’s rise to power and attacks on women’s and girls’ rights, I Am Malala is above all a chronicle of bravery in the face of great risk.Our guide provides historical, political, and religious context for the events in Malala's life. We also examine the research and data behind issues such as gender according to Islam, the origins of terrorist organizations, the link between misogyny and violent extremism, and girls’ education worldwide.