Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani female education activist, and producer of film and television. She is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history, receiving the Peace Prize in 2014 at age 17, and is
Yousafzai in 2023
Malala Yousafzai and Kaliash Satyarthi at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony
Yousafzai with her father (left) and Martin Schulz in Strasbourg, 2013
From left to right: Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and Muhammad Ali Jinnah have influenced Yousafzai.
Shayla is an Islamic head covering worn by some Muslim women in the presence of any male outside of their immediate family. It is different from a khimar, because it is usually wrapped and pinned. Som
Malala Yousafzai
…stated, "[The Islamic] faith has always been a big part of my life – and it continues to be so today." She has also defended her practice of wearing a shayla. Yousafzai's opposition to the policy of Talibanization made her unpopular in Pakistan among Taliban sympathisers. A Dawn columnist said she was…
Two mannequins with the left wearing a shayla and the right wearing a niqab