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When Afghanistan fell again, here’s how Malala Yousafzai rediscovered hope #TEDTalks

Malala Yousafzai has spent her life advocating for girls’ education — surviving an assassination attempt at 15, meeting with world leaders and then watching hard-won progress collapse when Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in 2021. That moment of despair forced her to completely rethink what it means to create change, and what she discovered replaced…

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Malala Yousafzai has spent her life advocating for girls’ education — surviving an assassination attempt at 15, meeting with world leaders and then watching hard-won progress collapse when Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in 2021. That moment of despair forced her to completely rethink what it means to create change, and what she discovered replaced her shattered optimism with something more powerful and more honest. Hear how to keep fighting for the future you want, even when hope feels lost.

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  1. @lindaanicete3531

    June 26, 2026 at 1:55 pm

    An admirable, highly respected young lady.

  2. @vocalsunleashed

    June 26, 2026 at 3:42 pm

    Wow it’s Michael and Hannah 😮 Cool! Much cooler than the current European weather 🥲 Why did I not know this existed?! Why are you only showing me this now, youtube?!

  3. @Ahmadsaeedi-i4c

    June 26, 2026 at 4:26 pm

    Afghanistan is a country which has experienced wars for over 50 years.
    May God bring happiness to all Afghans. ❤

    • @sunsalt

      June 28, 2026 at 2:13 am

      @Ahmadsaeedi-i4c Only we humans can make a difference to other people’s lives. No god has ever done anything.

    • @shahdabdel-moezz8481

      June 28, 2026 at 4:25 pm

      ​@sunsalt استغفر الله ربنا يهديك

  4. @humanbeing1616

    June 26, 2026 at 10:52 pm

    What an inspirational woman!!

  5. @rendonjance

    June 27, 2026 at 7:29 am

    Woow thank 🎉🎉

  6. @ATMKGandhi

    June 27, 2026 at 11:37 am

    She is asking wrong question, rather than asking that why Taliban got the govt in Afghanistan…She shud ask how they got it. Yes…u got it right, It was her own country Pakistan, which helped Taliban.
    Sad she isn’t having spine to condemn her own country and terrorism it exports in world.

    • @PhysicsFunmagic

      June 27, 2026 at 1:21 pm

      🎉🎉🎉

  7. @PhysicsFunmagic

    June 27, 2026 at 1:21 pm

    An admirable 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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