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what are the authors' names - ✔✔Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb
where does malala live currently - ✔✔birmingham, england
why did malala leave her home - ✔✔she was shot by the Taliban
Where is malala from - ✔✔swat valley, Pakistan
what is something that malala has accomplished since the shooting - ✔✔she received
the nobel peace price
what is malala's mission or goal/describe her beliefs - ✔✔she wants to receive an
education, but more importantly she wants to help other girls receive an education. she
fights for girls rights to education and rights in general
what do most of malala's school friends in swat want to do - ✔✔become doctors
where was malala when she was shot - ✔✔on the bus from school
does malala like being away from swat - ✔✔she is safe outside of swat, but she misses
her old home and country because that is where she grew up. swat is also a very
beautiful place and she misses her friends there
what is one way malala's father is different from other pastun men - ✔✔he celebrated
when malala was born even though she's a girl. he wants her to be treated the same as
her brothers
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, who was malala named after and why - ✔✔malalai of maiwand, she was a great
afghani hero who used words not violence. malalas father chose the name because
malalai was a strong women
how is malalas parents marriage different from other marriages - ✔✔malala's father
values his wife's opinions. also it is not an arranged marriage, the really love each other
what made her father's childhood stutter worse - ✔✔his father bullied him about it
how did her father overcome the stutter - ✔✔he entered a speech contest to make his
father proud, and he practiced his speech a lot
why is her father not close to his sisters - ✔✔he led a very different life than his sisters.
he went to school and spent time out of the house with friends. they stayed home
waiting to be married
how do pashtuns remember years - ✔✔using events not dates (ex. in the year of the
earthquake __)
who was the main enemy of afghanistan, pakistan, and the USA in the 1980s - ✔✔russia
what was malalas father almost brainwashed into joining at a young age - ✔✔the jihad
against russia
what is the difference between the shia and the sunnis - ✔✔they both have similar
religious beliefs, but they disagree over the successor of the prophet Muhammad. the
sunnis followed his friend and advisor, Abu Bakr. the shias followed his son-in-
law/cousin Ali.
are there more sunnis or shias in pakistan - ✔✔80% sunni in pakistan
what objections did the mufti have to the school - ✔✔the mufti though that it was
blasphemy for the girls to be going to school. he thought they should be in purdah.
called it a haram school
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