Who Is Malala Yousafzai?

Mosque

A Muslim place of worship

Swat Valley

A beautiful region in northern Pakistan where Malala was born and raised.

Muslim

A follower of Islam

Islam

A religion based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed which stresses belief in one god (Allah) and a body of law written in the Quran.

Islamabad

Capital of Pakistan

Peshawar

City in Pakistan

Allah

God of Islam

Pakistan

Malala's home country

What did Malala do on the day she learned she had won the Nobel Peace Prize?

She stayed in school as if it were a normal day.

Quran

The holy book of Islam

Mingora

The largest city in Swat District Pakistan; the city in which Malala was raised.

At age eleven, what did Malala begin writing?

a blog for a BBC Urdu website

Burqa

a garment or robe worn by some Muslim women to cover their bodies in public

A week after she was shot in October 2012, Malala woke up in---

a hospital in Birmingham, England, that specialized in injuries like hers.

What had Malala's father built in Mingora before Malala was born?

a private elementary school where he taught both boys and girls

When Malala was eight and nine, what did she hear about war in Afghanistan?

a violent group called the Taliban was making women obey severe laws

After the war ended, Malala's new dream was to---

become a politician and work to pass laws.

By the time Malala was seven, what was true of her father's schools?

more than eight hundred children studied in the low-cost private schools

Pashtun

n. member of a Pashto-speaking group of Afghanistan or Pakistan, many of whom are Muslims.

Urdu

official language of Pakistan

Malala was shot in the head while she was---

riding on a small bus.

What happened in 2007 after the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley?

the area became a war zone as the Pakistan Army arrived to stop the Taliban

Pashto

the native language of Pashtuns

For her 16th birthday, Malala was well enough to do?

travel to the United States to speak at the United Nations Youth Assembly