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Maria Toorpakai Wazir

May 10, 2016 in Modern Worthies

Maria Toorpakai Wazir

The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight

Toorpakai, from the Waziristan region of Pakistan, pretended for years to be a boy named Genghis Khan so she could play sports. She's now an internationally-ranked squash player.

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