Malala Yousafzai, born in 1997 in Mingora, Pakistan, became an international symbol of courage and hope for girls' education rights at just 11 years old. In her hometown of Swat Valley, the Taliban regime had banned girls from attending school. Malala, along with her father, began speaking out against this injustice, which resulted in her being shot by a Taliban gunman on her way to school in 2012. After surviving the assassination attempt, Malala's story went viral, and she became ...