We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World

About this book

Nobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Malala Yousafzai turns the faceless statistics and endless news stories about displacement into real people introducing a small fraction of the millions worldwide who have fled home in this powerful account. "A stirring and timely book." The New York Times After her father was murdered Mara 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. Malalas experiences visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider her own displacementfirst 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 journeysgirls who have lost their community relatives and often the only world theyve ever known. In a time of immigration crises war and border conflicts We Are Displaced is an important reminder from one of the worlds most prominent activists that every single one of the 68.5 million currently displaced is a personoften a young personwith hopes and dreams.