From W.HYY.Y.I. in Philadelphia, I'm Terry Gross with Fresh Air Weekend. Today, Malala Youssef's

she was only 11 when she started to demand the right of girls to go to school after the Taliban

invaded her town and banned girls' education. She was 15 when she was shot by a Taliban gunman. Looking back now, does she think

she understood the risk that she would become a Taliban target? I had pictured it many

times that this could happen. I had pictured it at school. I had pictured it in my school bus.

I had pictured it on the street. I knew that the Taliban could do anything. Also, we hear from actor

Oscar Isaac. He's currently starring in the Netflix series Beef and recently played Dr. Victor

Frankenstein in Guillermo del Toros Frankenstein. And Marie Karegan recommends three books for

spring reading.

This is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Terry Gross.

As remarkable as it is that my guest Malala Youssef's eye won the Nobel Peace Prize when she was 17.

There are remarkable ways she's been living her life since then.

Let's start with a famous part of her story.

She was born in 1997 and grew up in a remote region of Pakistan-Swat Valley near the Afghanistan border. In 2008, after the Taliban

invaded her town, terrorizing the people, they banned girls' education. She publicly spoke out

for her right and the right of all girls to go to school.

As payback in 2012 when she was 15, she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman. She was flown

to a hospital in England where she continues to live. Her recovery was miraculous. It's when I read

her recent memoir, Finding My way, that I learned how

the bullet changed the course of her life, thrusting her into a new culture, and changing her in ways

that didn't quite fit her public image as an inspirational hero and top student, and sometimes

even challenged her own self-image. When she was admitted to Oxford University,

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