Μάθημα : ΑΓΓΛΙΚΑ Β ΛΥΚΕΙΟΥ 2025 - 26

Malala Yousafzai is the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate, education activist, and survivor of a Taliban assassination attempt at age fifteen.

This conversation explores the gulf between icon and identity—what happens when you're trying to figure out who you are while everybody has already decided for you. We discuss PTSD that surfaced years later, therapy she resisted, reconciling heritage with freedom, the crisis facing Afghan girls under gender apartheid, and why meaningful activism extends beyond social media.

Through it all, she's redefining what courage actually looks like.

Malala is vulnerable, honest, and profoundly human. And this conversation is a gift. Enjoy

Thirteen years ago, the Taliban shot a fifteen-year-old Pakistani girl in the head—attempting to murder her for speaking out about their ban on girls’ education.

But Malala Yousafzai survived. And overnight, the world decided who she was.

Most people think they know the story. The fearless activist. The youngest Nobel Prize winner. The global symbol of courage. But there’s much more to it. Much has happened in Malala’s life since then.

What gets lost is the humanness—the complexity, the struggle, the person still trying to figure things out.

For Malala, this crystallizes in a single haunting line: “I’ll never know who I was supposed to be.”

My guest today is a young woman at the beginning of her life, newly married, navigating ordinary everyday experiences in surprisingly relatable ways. She’s here to share her side of the story—the Malala behind the global icon, a side of herself you’ve never seen before, and just might surprise you.

Her new memoir, Finding My Way, is about exactly that: finding and defining yourself, carving out your own identity and path, irrespective of what others—or in her case, the world—expects from you.

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