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Birth
Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, Pakistan, located in the country's Swat Valley -
Blog
In early 2009, when she was just 11 years old, Yousafzai began blogging for the BBC about living under the Taliban's threats to deny her an education. In order to hide her identity, she used the name Gul Makai. However, she was revealed to be the BBC blogger in December of that year. -
She received the International Children's Peace Prize
With a growing public platform, Yousafzai continued to speak out about her right, and the right of all women, to an education. Her activism resulted in a nomination for the International Children's Peace Prize in 2011. That same year, she was awarded Pakistan's National Youth Peace Prize. -
Shot by the Taliban
On October 9, 2012, when 15-year-old Yousafzai was riding a bus with friends on their way home from school, a masked gunman boarded the bus and demanded to know which girl was Yousafzai. When her friends looked toward Yousafzai, her location was given away. The gunman fired at her, hitting Malala in the left side of her head; the bullet then traveled down her neck. -
Speech at the U.N.
Nine months after being shot by the Taliban, Yousafzai gave a speech at the United Nations on her 16th birthday in 2013. Yousafzai highlighted her focus on education and women's rights, urging world leaders to change their policies. -
After the rehabilitation
After months of surgeries and rehabilitation, She joined her family in their new home in the U.K. -
Her study
She began studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford. -
She graduated
She graduated from Oxford University. -
Marriage
She married Asser Malik