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The incredible life of Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, who doesn't have a cell phone or use Facebook and once left Jon Stewart speechless

Shana LebowitzOct 19, 2017, 00:56 IST

Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala arrives to celebrate her 19th birthday at the Dadaab refugee camp near the Kenya-Somalia borderThomson Reuters

At age 20, Malala Yousafzai is one of the most accomplished and most celebrated people in the world.

Five years ago, she was shot by the Taliban in her native Pakistan for defying the ban against women going to school. Since then, she has won the Nobel Peace Prize, traveled all over the world, authored two books, and started studying at Oxford University.

Below, we rounded up some of the highlights of Yousafzai's incredible life.