Best Of: Malala Yousafzai / Oscar Isaac

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Today, Malala Youssefzai. She was only eleven when she started to demand the right of girls to go to school after the Taliban invaded her town and banned girls' education. She was fifteen when she was shot by a Taliban gunman. Looking back now, does she think she understood the risk that she would become a Taliban target? I had pictured it many times that this could happen.

I had pictured it at school, I had pictured it in my school bus. I had pictured it on the street, I knew that the Taliban could do anything. Also, we hear from actor Oscar Isaac. He's currently starring in the Netflix series Beef and recently played Dr. Victor Frankenstein in Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.

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