{"product_id":"i-am-malala-the-girl-who-stood-up-for-education-and-was-shot-by-the-taliban-hardcover","title":"I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMalala Yousafzai\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChristina Lamb\u003c\/b\u003e (With)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs seen on Netflix with David Letterman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was 15, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInstead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At 16, she became a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI AM MALALA \u003c\/i\u003eis the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI AM MALALA \u003c\/i\u003ewill make you believe in the power of one person's voice to inspire change in the world.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMalala Yousafzai\u003c\/b\u003e, the educational campaigner from Swat Valley, Pakistan, came to public attention by writing for BBC Urdu about life under the Taliban. Using the pen name Gul Makai, she often spoke about her family's fight for girls' education in her community. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn October 2012, Malala was targeted by the Taliban and shot in the head as she was returning from school on a bus. She miraculously survived and continues her campaign for education. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn recognition of her courage and advocacy, Malala was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, becoming the youngest-ever recipient at just seventeen years of age. She was also honored with the National Youth Peace Prize in Pakistan in 2011 and the International Children's Peace Prize in 2013, and she was short-listed for \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003emagazine's Person of the Year. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMalala continues to champion universal access to education through the Malala Fund, a non-\u003cbr\u003eprofit organization investing in community-led programs and supporting education advocates around the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristina Lamb\u003c\/b\u003e is one of the world's leading foreign correspondents. She has reported on Pakistan and Afghanistan since 1987. Educated at Oxford and Harvard, she is the author of five books and has won a number of awards, including Britain's Foreign Correspondent of the Year five times, as well as the Prix Bayeux-Calvados, Europe's most prestigious award for war correspondents. 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