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Birth
Malala Yousafzai was born on 12 July 1997 in the Swat District of Pakistan into a Sunni Muslim family. She was named Malala after Malalai of Maiwand, a famous warrior woman from southern Afghanistan. -
Childhood
Malala was educated mostly by her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, who is a teacher and an activist himself, running a chain of private schools known as the Khushal Public School. -
BBC Bloger
In late 2008, the editor of the BBC Urdu website decided to examine the Taliban's influence in Swat by asking a schoolgirl to blog anonymously about her life there. After several girls decline dthe offer because it was an extremely dangerous task, Ziuaddin Yousafzai suggested his own daughter, 11-year-old Malala. -
First Blog Entry
Yousafzai's debut entry was posted to the BBC Urdu blog. She would write notes by hand and give them to a reporter. The reporter would then scan and e-mail them. The blog presents Yousafzai's everyday life and thoughts during the First Battle of Swat, -
Taliban's Ban
In Mingora, the Taliban banned girls ffrom going to school after 15 January 2009. The group had already blown up more than a 100 girls' schools. The following day, Yousafzai read for the first time excerpts from her blog that had been published in a local newspaper. -
Attack
On 9 October 2012, a Taliban gunman shot Yousafzai while she was going home on the school bus. She was hit with one bullet, which went through her head, neck, and ended in her shoulder.Two other girls were also wounded in the shooting. They were both stable enough to speak to report. -
Medical Treatment & Recovery
After the shooting, Yousafzai was airlifted to a military hospital in Peshawar, where doctors were forced to begin operating after swelling developed in the left portion of her brain, which had been damaged by the bullet when it passed through her head.
On 3 January 2013, Yousafzai was discharged from the hospital to continue her rehabilitation at her family's temporary home in the West Midlands. -
Malala's Day
On 12 July 2013, Yousafzai's 16th birthday, she spoke at the UN to call for worldwide access to education. The UN dubbed the event "Malala Day". It was her first public speech since the attack, leading the first ever Youth Takeover of the UN, with an audience of over 500 young education advocates from around the world. -
Nobel Prize
On 10 October 2014, Yousafzai was announced as the co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize for her struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education. Having received the prize at the age of 17, Yousafzai is the youngest Nobel laureate. Yousafzai shared the prize with Kailash Satyarthi, a children's rights activist from India. She is the second Pakistani to receive a Nobel Prize.
