We Are Displaced, Malala Yousafzai
We Are Displaced, Malala Yousafzai
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We Are Displaced
My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World

Author: Malala Yousafzai

Narrator: Malala Yousafzai, Neela Vaswani

Unabridged: 4 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/08/2019


Synopsis

In this powerful book, Nobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces the people behind the statistics and news stories about the millions of people displaced worldwide.

After her father was murdered, María escaped in the middle of the night with her mother.

Zaynab was out of school for two years as she fled war before landing in America. Her sister, Sabreen, survived a harrowing journey to Italy.

Ajida escaped horrific violence, but then found herself battling the elements to keep her family safe.

Malala's experiences visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider her own displacement — first as an Internally Displaced Person when she was a young child in Pakistan, and then as an international activist who could travel anywhere in the world except to the home she loved. In We Are Displaced, Malala not only explores her own story, but she also shares the personal stories of some of the incredible girls she has met on her journeys — girls who have lost their community, relatives, and often the only world they've ever known. 

In a time of immigration crises, war, and border conflicts, We Are Displaced is an important reminder from one of the world's most prominent young activists that every single one of the 68.5 million currently displaced is a person — often a young person — with hopes and dreams.

"A stirring and timely book." —New York Times

About Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai, the educational campaigner from Swat Valley, Pakistan, came to public attention by writing for BBC Urdu about life under the Taliban. Using the pen name Gul Makai, she often spoke about her family's fight for girls' education in her community. In October 2012 Malala was targeted by the Taliban and shot while returning home from school. She survived and continues her campaign for education. In 2011, in recognition of her courage and advocacy, Malala was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize and won Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize. She is the youngest person ever to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize and has received numerous other awards, including the International Children's Peace Prize (2013), the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, and the Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award. Malala now attends the University of Oxford and continues to champion universal access to education through Malala Fund (malala.org), a non-profit organisation that invests in community-led programs and supports education advocates around the world.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Maria on September 01, 2022

An S.O.S to World “It never fails to shock me how people take peace for granted. I am grateful for it every day. Not everyone has it. Millions of men, women and children witness wars every day. Their reality is violence, homes destroyed, innocent lives lost. And the only choice they have for safety i......more

Goodreads review by Jennie on February 10, 2019

Malala Yousafzai is the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate, known for fighting for girls' rights to education in impoverished countries that have experience ghastly war atrocities and human right violations. She came into the public spotlight around 2013, when she survive a bullet to the head when t......more

Goodreads review by Maria on April 04, 2020

Desenraizados Existem 68.5 milhões de pessoas deslocadas à força, e entre eles Malala. Neste livro, Malala faz questão em recordar-nos que não está só, pois muitos outros, tal como ela, deixaram para trás o seu canto do mundo, as suas raízes, para um mergulho forçado no desconhecido. Professores, médi......more

Goodreads review by Vi on December 11, 2020

Wow, this book made me tear up. I guess we don’t acknowledge our privilege enough until we read about these kind of stories. So many incredible people changing this world that should be recognized more often. Thank you, Malala, for giving voice to these women.......more

Goodreads review by Cait on September 09, 2019

Trigger Warning: Animal death (chickens), war, injury and death, racism, islamophobia, death of a loved one (grandmother and mother), murder, genocide, terrorism, displacement I have a lot of feelings about this book......more


Quotes

6 Best Books for Teens of 2019, Parents magazine
School Library Journal Best Books of 2019
ALA Notable Books for Children 2019
ALA
Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2019

Nobel Peace Prize winner Yousafzai, who famously survived being shot by Taliban soldiers as a teen in 2012, is a passionate activist for girls' right to education. Yet, in this profound volume, she sidesteps those aspects of her life to illuminate another experience: displacement - beginning with her family's forced 2009 evacuation of their Pakistani hometown in response to escalating Taliban violence. Comprising the bulk of the book are urgent, articulate first-person stories from displaced or refugee young women whom Yousafzai has encountered in her travels, whose birthplaces include Colombia, Guatemala, Syria and Yemen. ... The contributors' strength, resilience, and hope in the face of trauma is astounding, and their stories' underlying message about the heartbreaking loss of their former lives and homelands (and the resulting "tangle of emotions that comes with leaving behind everything you know") is profoundly moving.—Publishers Weekly

"A stirring and timely book that strips the political baggage from the words 'migrant' and 'refugee,' telling the deeply personal stories of displacement and disruption that were lived by Yousafzai and nine other girls. ... [In] all these accounts, hope emerges as a kind of belligerent reaction to pain and loss."—The New York Times Book Review

"While geared to mature middle and high school level listeners, this is an audiobook that could be listened to and discussed in a guided family or school setting. Anyone who wants to learn more about immigration and refugees will benefit from this telling."—School Library Journal, review of audiobook edition