Tanya Mosley

Today, Malala Yousafzai.

We know her as the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the girl who survived a Taliban bullet at 15 for advocating for girls' education in Pakistan.

Well, now she has a new book where she's reintroducing herself to the world.

Her new memoir is called Finding My Way.

And in it, she writes about the messy, funny and flawed experiences that come with age while carrying both the honor and the weight of being an activist for women's rights.

Also, Ken Burns talks about his new PBS documentary on the Revolutionary War.

It includes the perspectives of women, Native Americans, and enslaved and free Black people, the people excluded from the Declaration, All Men Are Created Equal.

And TV critic David Bianculli reviews a new documentary series about Martin Scorsese.

That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend.

This is Fresh Air Weekend.

I'm Tanya Mosley.

College is often a time to figure out who we are, to fall in love for the first time, to experiment, to fail, to question what we believe.

But for my guest today, Malala Yousafzai, it was different.

She spent her college years under scrutiny and 24-hour security.

When she was 15, Malala survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban, a gunshot to the head while riding home on a school bus.

But long before that, she'd been standing up to them, demanding the right for girls to go to school in her hometown of Mingora and Pakistan's Swat Valley.

The Taliban had taken control, closing schools, banning women from public life, and brutally punishing anyone who resisted.

After the shooting, Malala's life changed overnight.

She became a symbol of resistance, praised, politicized, and picked apart.

While the world saw an unshakable young woman with a message, Malala was also a teenager, undergoing surgeries to reconstruct what was destroyed by the Taliban, experiencing post-traumatic stress, and navigating others' expectations of who she should be.