It was nine years ago that a Taliban gunman shot Malala Yousafzai in the head for publicly declaring that girls had the right to an education.
In a new post the Pakistan-born Nobel Laureate wrote for Podium, she opens up about recently undergoing her sixth surgery after being shot in the temple in 2012, with the bullet grazing the then-15-year-old’s eye, skull and brain, “lacerating my facial nerve, shattering my eardrum and breaking my jaw joints.” In her essay, she recalls her disorientation when she first awoke after being shot.
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