How 15-Year-Old Malala Yousafzai Defied The Taliban And Inspired Girls To Fight For Their Education

For most people, education is usually seen as a right, not a fight. But that’s exactly what it was for Malala Yousafzai, a teenage girl attending school in northwest Pakistan. Yousafzai, now 15 years old, gained worldwide attention when she began blogging for the BBC under a pen name in 2009, following the Taliban’s mandate that banned all girls from attending school.  The teenager, who continued to attend school despite the ban and the Taliban’s destruction of 150 school...