Malala is friendly, charming, and kind, possessing a high degree of empathy that guides her

work. She has dedicated her life (so far) to raising awareness of the issue that many people
around the world still lack access to education. A charismatic and idealistic leader, she lives to
serve others and develop strong, intimate relationships.

Extraverted (E)
Malala began speaking to crowds when she was as young as 11 years old. By the age
of 12, she had drawn national and international attention for her activism. Sociable and
confident both onstage and off, she has often been described as impassioned, and she
has always spoken, as she puts it, “from what was inside [her] soul.”

Intuitive (N)
In her native Pakistan, Malala was an outlier in a very conservative society. Even in
more progressive societies, her beliefs can be considered by some to be “radical.” But
as an Intuitive personality, Malala has never been afraid to dream.

Despite the Taliban’s threats, Malala stood tall and continued to speak out against them
as much as she possibly could. She felt as though it were her duty, her obligation to
speak for her right to education. Without it, who would she be? Malala felt that if no one
else would speak up, then she must be the one to do it. She was driven by a need to
protect education not just for herself, but for all the young girls like her – and anyone
else who was denied this fundamental right.

Feeling (F)
Through her activism, Malala has demonstrated her selflessness and deep empathy.
What’s perhaps the most miraculous thing is that she has no anger in her heart for the
men behind her attack. In the 2015 documentary He Named Me Malala, she says she’s
angered by the ideology that they represent, but she’s always said that, “Never, never
have I ever felt anger towards them.”

Judging (J)
Malala’s focus on equal access to education is broad, but she has remained dedicated
to this goal since she was an adolescent and has never shied away from the difficult
work of activism. Now, as a young woman in her twenties, Malala continues to be driven
by her sense of duty and to deliver her message clearly and decisively to an
ever-growing audience.
Putting It All Together
In these and other ways, Malala Yousafzai fits our description of the Protagonist
personality type:

“Protagonists are natural-born leaders, full of passion and charisma. Forming around
two percent of the population, they are oftentimes our politicians, our coaches, and our
teachers, reaching out and inspiring others to achieve and to do good in the world. With
a natural confidence that begets influence, Protagonists take a great deal of pride and
joy in guiding others to work together to improve themselves and their community.”

We’ll end on Malala’s own Protagonist-like words: “I raise up my voice – not so I can
shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. We cannot succeed when half of
us are held back.”

Here at 16Personalities, we hold accuracy in high esteem. That said, there’s only so
much research we can do on a person. While Malala is very much living, she’s a very
busy woman. We’ll try to get an interview with her if we can! Until then, our label of
Protagonist remains theoretical.

So, do you have your own theories about Malala’s personality type? Let us know in the
comments below!

Malala’s father and role model, Ziauddin is an educated, articulate, and charismatic man
who passes on to his daughter a passion for freedom, education, and equality. As a
child, Ziauddin is afflicted with a nervous stutter, and he also struggles to assert his own
personality in the face of Rohul, his articulate, charismatic father. Ultimately, through
hard work and perseverance Ziauddin becomes a talented public speaker. As an adult,
he uses his rhetorical abilities to organize schools for young women—a measure that
makes him a traitor to Islam in the eyes of the Taliban. Despite the Taliban’s threats,
Ziauddin continues to run his school and encourages Malala to fight for education and
women’s rights. Ziauddin is instrumental in connecting Malala with the journalists and
broadcasters who first bring her to national prominence. While Ziauddin is intensely
proud of his daughter’s eloquence and single-mindedness, his pride turns to guilt when
Malala is attacked by a Taliban soldier. Ultimately, Ziauddin continues to use his talents
to fight for equal rights and equal education, and encourages Malala to do exactly the
same.

Ameer’s
Among her many awards, in 2013 Yousafzai won the United Nations Human Rights
Prize, awarded every five years. She was named one of Time magazine’s most
influential people in 2013 and appeared on one of the seven covers that were printed for
that issue. With Christina Lamb (foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times),
Yousafzai coauthored a memoir, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and
Was Shot by the Taliban (2013). She also wrote the picture book Malala’s Magic Pencil
(2017), which was based on her childhood. In 2014 she became the youngest person to
win the Liberty Medal, awarded by the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia to
public figures striving for people’s freedom throughout the world. Nominated for the
Nobel Peace Prize in 2013 but passed over that year, Yousafzai in 2014 won the prize,
becoming the youngest Nobel laureate.

Malala Yousafzai initially became famous for her childhood activism against the
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan’s (TTP’s) restrictions on education for girls. She appeared on
television and wrote a blog for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Her fame
soared after a gunman shot her in the head in 2012, when she was 15 years old, and
she survived.For her work in drawing global attention to the threat to girls’ education in
Pakistan, in 2014 at age 17 Malala Yousafzai became the youngest Nobel Prize
laureate up to that time. She also won other accolades, and several funds and
education initiatives were established in her honour.
Malala Yousafzai attended Khushal Girls High School and College in Mingora, Pakistan,
until it was closed by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). She continued her secondary
education elsewhere in Pakistan, and later in England, before attending the University
of Oxford.
1997

I was born in Mingora, Pakistan on July 12, 1997.

Welcoming a baby girl is not always cause for celebration in Pakistan — but my father,
Ziauddin Yousafzai, was determined to give me every opportunity a boy would have.
2008

My father was a teacher and ran a girls’ school in our village.

I loved school. But everything changed when the Taliban took control of our town in
Swat Valley. The extremists banned many things — like owning a television and playing
music — and enforced harsh punishments for those who defied their orders. And they
said girls could no longer go to school.
In January 2008 when I was just 11 years old, I said goodbye to my classmates, not
knowing when — if ever — I would see them again.
2012

I spoke out publicly on behalf of girls and our right to learn. And this made me a target.

In October 2012, on my way home from school, a masked gunman boarded my school
bus and asked, “Who is Malala?” He shot me on the left side of my head.

I woke up 10 days later in a hospital in Birmingham, England. The doctors and nurses
told me about the attack — and that people around the world were praying for my
recovery.
2014

After months of surgeries and rehabilitation, I joined my family in our new home in the
U.K.

It was then I knew I had a choice: I could live a quiet life or I could make the most of this
new life I had been given. I determined to continue my fight until every girl could go to
school.

With my father, who has always been my ally and inspiration, I established Malala Fund,
a charity dedicated to giving every girl an opportunity to achieve a future she chooses.
In recognition of our work, I received the Nobel Peace Prize in December 2014 and
became the youngest-ever Nobel laureate.
2018

I began studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford.

And every day I fight to ensure all girls receive 12 years of free, safe, quality education.

I travel to many countries to meet girls fighting poverty, wars, child marriage and gender
discrimination to go to school. Malala Fund is working so that their stories, like mine,
can be heard around the world.

We invest in developing country educators and activists, like my father, through Malala
Fund’s Education Champion Network. And we hold leaders accountable for their
promises to girls.
2020

I graduated from Oxford University!

I will always treasure my time at Lady Margaret Hall — the lectures, club meetings, balls
and late nights (some spent finishing papers, some just chatting with friends in the
dorm). Although a global pandemic meant I spent my final months as a university
student in my parents' house, I'm grateful that I was able to complete my education.
After taking time to relax, I am more dedicated than ever to my fight for girls.

With more than 130 million girls out of school today, there is more work to be done. I
hope you will join my fight for education and equality. Together, we can create a world
where all girls can learn and lead.

Childhood and early activism

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The daughter of an outspoken social activist and educator, Yousafzai was an excellent
student. Her father—who established and administered the school she attended,
Khushal Girls High School and College in the city of Mingora—encouraged her to follow
in his path. In 2007 the Swat valley, once a vacation destination, was invaded by the
TTP. Led by Maulana Fazlullah, the TTP began imposing strict Islamic law, destroying
or shutting down girls’ schools, banning women from any active role in society, and
carrying out suicide bombings. Yousafzai and her family fled the region for their safety,
but they returned when tensions and violence eased.

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On September 1, 2008, when Yousafzai was 11 years old, her father took her to a local
press club in Peshawar to protest the school closings, and she gave her first
speech—“How Dare the Taliban Take Away My Basic Right to Education?” Her speech
was publicized throughout Pakistan. Toward the end of 2008, the TTP announced that
all girls’ schools in Swat would be shut down on January 15, 2009. The British
Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) approached Yousafzai’s father in search of someone
who might blog for them about what it was like to live under TTP rule. Under the name
Gul Makai, Yousafzai began writing regular entries for BBC Urdu about her daily life.
She wrote from January through the beginning of March of that year 35 entries that
were also translated into English. Meanwhile, the TTP shut down all girls’ schools in
Swat and blew up more than 100 of them.

In February 2009 Yousafzai made her first television appearance, when she was
interviewed by Pakistani journalist and talk show host Hamid Mir on the Pakistan current
events show Capital Talk. In late February the TTP, responding to an increasing
backlash throughout Pakistan, agreed to a cease-fire, lifted the restriction against girls,
and allowed them to attend school on the condition that they wear burkas. However,
violence resurged only a few months later, in May, and the Yousafzai family was forced
to seek refuge outside of Swat until the Pakistani army was able to push the TTP out. In
early 2009 The New York Times reporter Adam Ellick worked with Yousafzai to make a
documentary, Class Dismissed, a 13-minute piece about the school shutdown. Ellick
made a second film with her, titled A Schoolgirl’s Odyssey. The New York Times posted
both films on their Web site in 2009. That summer she met with the U.S. special envoy
to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, and asked him to help with her effort
to protect the education of girls in Pakistan.

Yousafzai recovered, staying with her family in Birmingham, where she returned to her
studies and to activism. For the first time since being shot, she made a public
appearance on July 12, 2013, her 16th birthday, and addressed an audience of 500 at the
United Nations in New York City. Among her many awards, in 2013 Yousafzai won the
United Nations Human Rights Prize, awarded every five years. She was named one of
Time magazine’s most influential people in 2013 and appeared on one of the seven
covers that were printed for that issue. With Christina Lamb (foreign correspondent for
The Sunday Times), Yousafzai coauthored a memoir, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood
Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (2013). She also wrote the picture book
Malala’s Magic Pencil (2017), which was based on her childhood. In 2014 she became
the youngest person to win the Liberty Medal, awarded by the National Constitution
Center in Philadelphia to public figures striving for people’s freedom throughout the
world. Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013 but passed over that year, Yousafzai
in 2014 won the prize, becoming the youngest Nobel laureate.

Malala Yousafzai
After winning the Nobel Prize, Yousafzai continued to attend school in England—she
graduated from the University of Oxford in 2020—while using her enhanced public
profile to bring attention to human rights issues around the world. In July 2015, with
support from the Malala Fund, she opened a girls’ school in Lebanon for refugees from
the Syrian Civil War. She discussed her work with refugees as well as her own
displacement in We Are Displaced (2019).

Her life, before and after the attack she endured, was examined in the documentary He
Named Me Malala (2015). The title referenced the fact that Yousafzai had been named
for the Afghan heroine Malalai, or Malala, who purportedly led her people to victory
against the British in the 1880 Battle of Maiwand.

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The outer cover of the book has colorful pictures and words. The back of the cover has
flaps displaying the author’s biography and the synopsis of the whole story. This story
has been written by many famous authors all over the world but the one we are reading
is being written by _____. The book jacket makes an effort to promote the book and
protect the book from damage. Malala's face is also being depicted on the front cover of
the book to allow readers to recognize the main character of this inspiring story. The
price of the book is reasonable and can be bought by many people and also be able to
be accessed on social media too!
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Physical Parts of a Book

Book cover or book boards: the outer coverings of your book.
Joint: the exterior part of the book that bends or creases when the book is opened.
Hinge: the interior part of a book's joint — its inside edge.
Head: the top part of the book.
Tail: the bottom part of a book.

delightful – giving great delight, very pleasing, beautiful. with a charming story –
with a delightful story. with a beautifully crafted story – with a beautifully written story.
excellent – exceptionally good.

“The writing was captivating,” “The characters were believable and I cared about
them,” “The plot had so many twists and turns I couldn't put the book down.” Specific
praise helps browsing readers get a better sense of why your book is so good

● heartwarming – causing gladness and tender feelings.

● heartfelt – sincere, not deceitful.
● insightful – exhibiting insight or clear and deep perception.
● thought-provoking – making you think a lot about a subject.
● laugh-out-loud funny – extremely funny, hilarious.