ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Malala Yousafzai will speak virtually with several public libraries across the Capital Region on October 22. The education activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate will discuss her new memoir, which is slated to be released later this month.
Born in Pakistan, Yousafzai became an international figure when she was just a child. In 2008, after the Taliban took control over her hometown and banned girls from attending school, she began blogging for BBC Urdu to share her experiences and advocate for girls’ right to a full education.
In 2012, when she was just 15 years old, a masked Taliban gunman boarded her school bus and shot her in the head in retaliation for her activism. She woke from a coma 10 days later in a hospital in England…