Malala Yousafzai, 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.
In 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.
In 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 Time magazine's Person of the Year.
Malala continues to champion universal access to education
through the Malala Fund, a non-
profit organization investing in community-led programs and
supporting education advocates around the world.
Christina Lamb 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. She currently works for the Sunday Times and lives in London and Portugal with her husband and son.
"[A] memoir every American woman should read."--Leigh Newman,
Oprah.com
"[A] vivid autobiography.... Yousafzai possesses an eloquence
beyond her years, but her touching asides drive home the fact that
she's also very much a 16-year-old girl.... Captivating and
surprisingly personal."--Erika W. Smith, Bust
"A gripping story.... What makes this book so important is not just
the universal value of Malala's cause.... It's the relevance of her
story to one of the most vexing security questions in today's crazy
world...."--Trudy Rubin, Philadelphia Inquirer
"A story for each and every girl who chooses to break societal
taboos, challenge the clergy, declare war against illiteracy and
believe in the power of the pen."--Daud Khattak, Newark Star
Ledger
"An eye-opener in the fight for girls' education
equality."--More
"An inspiring, clearly written memoir that offers a glimpse of an
extraordinary young woman and the confounding world from which she
comes."--Karen Sandstrom, Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Briskly written but full of arresting detail.... Striking [and]
surprising..."--Jill Lawless, Associated Press
"Compelling. It's a brave girl's tale in an unsafe country, and it
reveals her fierce determination to make the world a better
place."--Michael Taube, Washington Times
"For a teenage girl in a distant corner of the globe to spark life
into this movement-against overwhelming odds-is truly
extraordinary. The world must not allow Malala's message to
die."--Dallas Morning News
"Her powerful message remains undiluted."--Tina Jordan,
Entertainment Weekly
"How did Yousafzai have the courage, at 15, to stand up to the
Taliban in her native Pakistan? Her memoir, written less than a
year after she nearly died for her efforts, will open your
eyes."--People
"In simple, clear writing, I AM MALALA gives a rare and moving
first-person glance into what it's like to be a teenager in a
country seized by extremists who stand against the basic freedoms
you believe in."--Krystin Arneson, Bustle
"Incredibly inspirational.... Malala is intelligent and fiery with
dreams of changing the world, but the book has the added benefit of
being a true story that is easily interwoven with important global
issues such as human rights, development, education, and peace....
If there is one thing that I AM MALALA should teach us, it is to
look beyond Manichean narratives of good and evil. It is important
to applaud Malala for the awareness she has built around important
issues like education for young women."--Cristina Maza,
PolicyMic
"Like millions around the world, I draw strength from brave
Malala's example.... Malala is a testament that women everywhere
will not be intimidated into silence. We will make our voices
heard."--Gabrielle Giffords, Time magazine's "TIME 100"
"Malala matters....In her modesty and dignity, she should be
Islam's beloved daughter, her journey a return to the early promise
of Muslim modernism."--Fouad Ajami, New York Post
"Ms. Yousafzai has single-handedly turned the issue of the right of
girls--and all children--to be educated into headline news. And she
is a figure worth hearing."--Isabel Berwick, Financial Times
"Ms. Yousafzai's stature as a symbol of peace and bravery has been
established across the world..."--Salman Masood, The New York
Times
"Not only has Malala Yousafzai become an international symbol of
inspiration and bravery, but her survival instilled educators with
courage-and is slowly helping make Pakistani schools safer."--Nick
Schifrin, ABC.com
"One hears some ghosts of Anne Frank in reading I AM MALALA, the
flightiness, effervescence and, well...girlishness of an adolescent
girl flung once again the indifferent violence of inhuman men, like
flowers hurled against a stone wall."--Leonard Pitts Jr., Miami
Herald
"Remarkable...a must-read, first-person account of her journey
through global terrorism, her brave, encouraging parents, and her
own fight for girls' education."--MarieClaire.com
"Riveting.... [Malala's] clear voice [is] beautifully captured by
Lamb."--Rafia Zakaria, Ms. Magazine
"Riveting.... Co-written with Christina Lamb, a veteran British
journalist who has an evident passion for Pakistan and can render
its complicated history with pristine clarity, this is a book that
should be read not only for its vivid drama but for its urgent
message about the untapped power of girls.... It is difficult to
imagine a chronicle of a war more moving, apart from perhaps the
diary of Anne Frank. With the essential difference that we lost
that girl, and by some miracle, we still have this one."--Marie
Arana, Washington Post
"The touching story will not only inform you of changing conditions
in Pakistan, but inspire your rebellious spirit."--Matthew Love,
Time Out New York
"The victory of Malala Yousafzai is that she's just getting
started."--Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon
"The voice that beams, 'I am Malala' is the voice that continues to
meet the assassin's challenge. It is the voice of a courageous
campaigner who still fights for girls' education. The voice of an
icon who may one day be able to return to her country, but who even
from afar symbolizes its noblest cause."--Shehryar Fazli, Los
Angeles Review of Books
"Wise beyond her years...."--Annie Gowen, Marie Claire
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