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My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story

by Latifa

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"My Forbidden Face" provides a moving and highly personal account of life under the Taliban regime. With painful honesty and clarity, Latifa describes her ordered world falling apart, in the name of a fanaticism that she could not comprehend, and replaced by a world where terror and oppression reigned.

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Born into a middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980, Latifa had a conventional childhood. Then, Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul. And from that moment, Latifa, just sixteen, became a prisoner in her own home. The simplest and most basic freedoms were forbidden. She was forced to put on a chadri, the state-mandated uniform that covered her entire body. Disbelief at having to hide herself was soon replaced by fear, the fear of being whipped or stoned like women she'd seen. My Forbidden Face provides a moving and highly personal account of life under the Taliban regime. With painful honesty and clarity, Latifa describes her ordered world falling apart, in the name of a fanaticism that she could not comprehend, and replaced by a world where terror and oppression reign.
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ISBN:
9781401359256
Subtitle:
Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story
Translator:
Hachemi, Shekeba
With:
Hachemi, Shekeba
Translator:
Coverdale, Linda
Author:
Latifa
With:
Hachemi, Shekeba
Publisher:
Miramax
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Middle East - General
Subject:
Personal Memoirs
Subject:
Social conditions
Subject:
Afghanistan - Politics and government - 1989-
Subject:
Women -- Afghanistan.
Subject:
Biography - General
Copyright:
2003
Edition Description:
TradePB
Publication Date:
20030709
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
224
Dimensions:
8 x 5.1875 in 6.88 oz
Age Level:
Adult
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"Synopsis" by , Born into a middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980, Latifa had a conventional childhood. Then, Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul. And from that moment, Latifa, just sixteen, became a prisoner in her own home. The simplest and most basic freedoms were forbidden. She was forced to put on a chadri, the state-mandated uniform that covered her entire body. Disbelief at having to hide herself was soon replaced by fear, the fear of being whipped or stoned like women she'd seen. My Forbidden Face provides a moving and highly personal account of life under the Taliban regime. With painful honesty and clarity, Latifa describes her ordered world falling apart, in the name of a fanaticism that she could not comprehend, and replaced by a world where terror and oppression reign.
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