"A stirring and
timely book." --New York Times Book Review
After her father was
murdered, María 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.
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In her powerful new
book, Nobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author
Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the people behind the statistics
and news stories about the millions of people displaced worldwide.
Malala's experiences
visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider her own displacement
- first 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, which is part memoir, part communal storytelling, 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 journeys -
girls who have lost their community, relatives, and often the only
world they've ever known.
In a time of
immigration crises, war, and border conflicts, We Are Displaced is an
important reminder from one of the world's most prominent young
activists that every single one of the 68.5 million currently
displaced is a person - often a young person - with hopes and dreams.