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Malala Yousafzai

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The Resume

    (July 12, 1997- )
    Born in Mingora, Pakistan
    Student and education rights activist
    Blogged about life under Taliban rule for the BBC (2009)
    Survived an assassination attempt by a Taliban gunman (October 9, 2012)
    Co-authored the memoir 'I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban' (2013)

Why she might be annoying:

    She was allowed to stay up late and talk politics after her brothers had been sent to bed.
    She was considered the favorite to win the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize, but lost out to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
    She makes you feel guilty about ever having skipped school.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She began speaking out at age 11, when she asked 'How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education?' in a speech covered by regional TV and newspapers (September, 2008).
    She and her father regularly received death threats.
    After the shooting, she required surgery to reconstruct her skull and restore her hearing.
    A group of 50 Islamic clerics in Pakistan issued a fatwa against her would-be assassins.
    Her shooting prompted the ratification of Pakistan's first Right to Education law.
    She addressed the UN on her 16th birthday.
    She was the first recipient of Pakistan's National Youth Peace Prize.
    She became the youngest person to ever win the Nobel Peace Prize (2014).

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 21 Votes: 23.81% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 210 Votes: 53.81% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 77 Votes: 49.35% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 101 Votes: 49.50% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 1178 Votes: 45.25% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2261 Votes: 47.15% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 1473 Votes: 45.69% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 3213 Votes: 49.08% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 23 Votes: 39.13% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 148 Votes: 47.30% Annoying