Malala Yousafzai was born in 1997 in Mingora, Pakistan where her childhood was marked by the Taliban's destruction of girls' schools. In 2012, the Taliban shot Malala in the head for advocating for girls' education, requiring doctors to replace part of her skull with a titanium plate though she survived the assassination attempt. The passage provides biographical details of Malala Yousafzai's birthplace, childhood under the Taliban, and shooting over her support for girls' education.