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

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

by Latifa, Shekeba Hachemi, Linda Coverdale (Translator), Karenna Gore Schiff (Preface by)

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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 a...more

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Published July 9th 2003 by Miramax Books (first published January 2nd 1985)

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Jun 28, 2007 Babsmu rated it 2 of 5 stars

an important book, but it moves sooooo slow. I feel bad that I have to teach it.

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Oct 16, 2008 BoekenTrol rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I bought this book out of curiosity. All the discussions about burqa's, voiles, women covering their head. I wanted t know more about the country that is, for me, symbolic for the burqa. It was in a report on Afghanistan that I first saw these blue things that women were hiding in.
Once again I am happy that I grew up and live in a free country... To have to fight for your human (let alone female) rights, have to hide yourself and your ideas... I stil canno...more

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Mar 24, 2011 Aliyah Abdullah rated it 4 of 5 stars

In this story Latifa, a sixteen year old girl born and raised in Afghanistan, has her rights stripped from her under Taliban tyranny. Latifa has to go from being free and allowed an education and able to follow her dreams as a journalist, to basically becoming a canary in a cage. The Taliban decree laws that are sexist and demoralizing to women. Latifa brings us through the years of suffering endured by her family and other Afghans. This Story gave me a very heartfelt understanding to Latifa, in...more

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Apr 23, 2009 Milan/zzz rated it 2 of 5 stars

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"So, since men as well as women are forbidden by law to laugh in the streets and children are forbidden to play ..."

Can you imagine living under law that forbids laughter? And why on earth someone would force that law? We all know (I suppose) that Talibans are utter fanatics but I’m sure Islam doesn’t forbids laughter. I mean every religion should bring joy to its believer so how come this paradox? And that’s not the only one of course.
To anyone who is familiar with Taliban regime this book will...more

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Jan 17, 2012 Monk rated it 4 of 5 stars

Started reading this when my daughter had to buy it for a high school class. Actually, she told me that she was reading a book by Queen Latifa in her Geography class. After some time, we sorted out that this was NOT written by Queen Latifa, who, despite being the size of a planet, is not a proper subject of study for AP Geography.
Anyhoo, picked it up and had a hard time putting it down. It's not a great book...the structure falls apart several times and even at 200 pages it can drag a bit...but...more

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My forbidden face
“We were all in tears while Wahid kissed our parent’s hands and begged us not to cry” (page 107) is a strong statement to me because it makes me think about how I would feel if I got some sort of earth stopping news in the book My Forbidden Face written by Latifa. Latifa is a young girl, about 15, who lives in Afghanistan during the time the Tailban was attacking. She lives with her family; Mom dad, sister Soraya and her brothers Farad and Daoud.
While reading the book, My Forb...more My forbidden face
“We were all in tears while Wahid kissed our parent’s hands and begged us not to cry” (page 107) is a strong statement to me because it makes me think about how I would feel if I got some sort of earth stopping news in the book My Forbidden Face written by Latifa. Latifa is a young girl, about 15, who lives in Afghanistan during the time the Tailban was attacking. She lives with her family; Mom dad, sister Soraya and her brothers Farad and Daoud.
While reading the book, My Forbidden Face, I learned a few things about terrorism that I had stereotypes about. Innocent people are being hurt. Latifa and her family as well as her neighbors and close friends are all being pushed out of their homes and some even hung, a gruesome and humiliating way to die. The Tailban is a group of Islamic people run by Osama bin Laden in 1990’s that captures Afghan men and tortures them while the women have to watch and work for them. Working for the enemy is something the Afghan women would go against but if they did, they would be harmed as well. Latifa and her village spend this time period, 1997-2001, trying to run away and keep their family safe.
Another thing I learned was that things like this still happen around the world. For instance, the 9/11 attacks. Although it was a few years back, I was alive when it happened and even though I was to young to remember it, my mom can tell you exactly what we both did when she heard the news. New York being so far away and Latifa, in her own home being held a prisoner to make the Tailban clothes, I feel like a fradey-cat compared to her. In the Middle East today there are still bomb threats and people starting wars over the littlest things.
Going off of this, I also learned that it is for no reason. I knew this before but there was always some doubt in the back of my mind like maybe these people did something to deserve to be treated like this but reading the book by a girl my age put it in a whole new perspective for me. Reading her words and learning about her family’s everyday lives being jumbled around for no reason made me think again. This family is Christian, her brother soon to be married and Latifa and her sister in school. “The water on my feverish cheeks is a gift from God, and to go about freely without the Tailban is a marvelous breath of oxygen” on page 83 shows her religion which is important to me that even though her life is on the line, she prays and trusts God to help her through it. It means she’s a strong Christian just like me. Her neighbor who warns them about the attacks of the president is also an innocent man trying to help others.
“We plunge into a whirlwind- first a hotel, then a television studio where they promise me my face will be blurry on the screen so no one can identify me” is a sentence I really like, found on page 193, because I think it has a dramatic effect. When I read it, a voice of a 15year-old girl, young and naive, pops into my head. It makes me feel sad inside but also relief because it means she is safe and with her mother.
Latifa and her family are all sitting around the dinner table one night when they hear a familiar voice start yelling. Her dad goes to see what the hassle is about when he gets word from the neighbor that the Tailban is attacking and that his family was gone. The president was taken and is being held hostage and unless you hide, you will be taken as well. Her dad reports this to her mom who takes her and her sisters to try to run away. Her dad and her brothers go down to see if they can help fight the Tailban. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in history and personal narratives. I enjoyed this book because reading a book written by a survivor of a bad incidence interests me. It has adventure yet some sad parts but because they wrote the book it means they survived and are able to give great description about the event. Reading about attacks like this by someone so close to the epidemic can also help you learn things about the event but even about yourself.
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Feb 02, 2009 Rebecca rated it 2 of 5 stars

This is not a good example of the whole women/fundamentalist Islam genre which had its heyday in the early years of the new millennium. There are far more stirring tales of such woes on the market. While the plight of Latifa is not to be sneered at, the book is not one of the best mediums to convey the real difficulties of women under the Taliban. Readers should try other books for a deeper understanding and to gain more empathy.

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Oct 24, 2011 Patricia rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book provides a first-hand account of daily life in Afghanistan under the Taliban. Latifa (a pseudonym made necessary by death threats to the author and her family members) lived with her family in a middle-class area of Kabul. Her country had been at war her entire life. Over the years, Latifa and her family members struggled to be apolitical just so they could survive the frequent regime changes. One of her brothers served in the army under the Soviets, only to become a political prisoner...more This book provides a first-hand account of daily life in Afghanistan under the Taliban. Latifa (a pseudonym made necessary by death threats to the author and her family members) lived with her family in a middle-class area of Kabul. Her country had been at war her entire life. Over the years, Latifa and her family members struggled to be apolitical just so they could survive the frequent regime changes. One of her brothers served in the army under the Soviets, only to become a political prisoner under the regime. Another brother was sent to university in Dushanbe, Tajikistan on a Soviet scholarship. When the Taliban took over Kabul, Latifa found herself virtually imprisoned in her apartment, forbidden by the Taliban from attending the university where she had just passed her entrance exams. Her sister had been an airline stewardess and her mother a doctor, but both were forbidden from continuing their professions. Her father was a businessman, whose Kabul warehouses were being continually destroyed in battle.

Latifa describes daily life for her family after the Taliban took control. She describes listening to edicts on the radio, forbidding women from working and girls from going to school. Women and girls were also not allowed to be treated by male doctors, and since women doctors were forbidden from practicing, this effectively shut half the population out from being able to receive any kind of health care. Women had to be covered from head to toe if they were to go out in public, and they had to be escorted by a male relative. On one of the few times Latifa dared go out of her apartment for a walk, she witnessed a horrific beating of women whose feet were covered but who had committed the apparently reprehensible crime of wearing the wrong color shoes.

At the beginning of her story, Latifa is an ordinary teenager, excited with fancy dresses and movie stars. But as the years go by, and she finds herself and all other women that she knows forbidden from participating in society in any, Latifa becomes more and more concerned with women's issues-indeed she becomes a feminist, although she had most likely never heard the term before. It's fascinating to read in her descriptions of childhood in Kabul of what a relatively normal life her family had been able to lead, despite the wars and political upheavals. This contrasts sharply with the changes brought in by the Taliban, when marriages could no longer be celebrated, and teachers could be beaten for providing lessons to little girls. This is a very-well written, gripping account of Afghani life from the point of view of an ordinary citizen, and highly recommended to anyone who wants to further their understanding of the Afghan society and attitudes towards the Taliban.(less)

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Mar 10, 2010 Lisa rated it 4 of 5 stars

Great insight into the history of Aghanistan's tumultuous history told through the eyes of a young woman who has lived through it all. From Soviet occupation through various regimes, the Taliban, and finally the current government she describes the unfortunate effects on her life and future. I like the book and learned a lot. It is obvious that the story is being told through an interpreter and thus it doesn't flow. She also skips around in time quite a bit, however she gets her point across. I...more

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Mar 04, 2009 ♥ Marlene♥ rated it 2 of 5 stars

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This book took me 3 days to read and this is such a thin little book. I did think it was interesting, the life of the people of Afghanistan, but it wasn't like, i want to know more, I cannot stop reading. To be honest this book was a bit of a bore. There are much better accounts like this one. I do think it was okay though. Glad that I was able to read. 7.5 out of 10

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Jul 22, 2009 Xxxbabyxxx rated it 5 of 5 stars

I loved this book. I find it disgusting that people want more from this girl. I’m sorry but did you miss the people being raped and killed? Have people become so selfish that they can only see but their own suffering. Anyone that says this book is a bore is a pathetic excuse for a human being. Latifa didn’t write this book for you to come on here and say it’s boring or it needs something more. She wrote what she wanted people to hear about her life. She wasn’t thinking to herself,” How many book...more

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Jan 25, 2013 M.A. McRae rated it 4 of 5 stars

This may not be a professionally written book, it does not contain profound insights, but it does tell us how it was for one young girl effectively condemned for her sex. If I'd read this in isolation, I might have doubted some of what she says, but any moderately informed adult knows of many other sources that say the same.

Flaws in the writing - at times it seems to ramble a bit, jumping back and forward into history, but aside from that, I have no quibble. It does not contain exhaustive descri...more

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Apr 23, 2013 Jenna rated it 4 of 5 stars

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I rate this book at a 4 star count.

After the Taliban showed up to Kabul Latifa's whole life change from being able to go to school, be outside when she wanted to be, to having to be inside her house 24/7. The women/girls had no rights as soon as the Taliban took over their town; they had everything under their control. All the men had to do what the Taliban men said they had to do and the women had to stay home while their husbands, fathers, brother, etc., were out being control under what they...more I rate this book at a 4 star count.

After the Taliban showed up to Kabul Latifa's whole life change from being able to go to school, be outside when she wanted to be, to having to be inside her house 24/7. The women/girls had no rights as soon as the Taliban took over their town; they had everything under their control. All the men had to do what the Taliban men said they had to do and the women had to stay home while their husbands, fathers, brother, etc., were out being control under what they so called, the bad people.

I was surprised by how strong Latifa and her family where, they all had a lot of support to be able to get through everything that was happening in Kabul. Latifa was just a young lady, middle teen, when everything started getting tragic in their home town. Everything was being taken over and they couldn’t do anything to stop it. Latifa and she sister had to stop going to school, stop going outside to get fresh air, and stop doing really anything they wanted to do. For example: Latifa and her sister one day decided that they wanted to go do something. They had to wear a chadri which cover their whole body from head to toe. They had been walking down side roads and the Taliban guards had say that there was a women in the chadri and they took her to the street and wiped her, Latifa saw it all. She had seen a lot of things happen throughout the whole tragedy that happened in her town. But she made it through by herself and with her family and friends.

When someone is reading this book they might want to think about what they would react to with all the beating that is happening throughout the whole entire book. If someone thought that they wouldn't be able to read about all different women being beat/slashed with whips then this isn't the kind of book that person would want to read. Now if there is someone that wants to know things about what Latifa's life was like when she was a little girl then this would be a book that someone would totally definitely want to read because it tell how her life as a child was a life a long period of time. (less)

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May 07, 2009 Sarah rated it 4 of 5 stars

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This is a memoir about Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, told by a woman who was 16 when the Taliban first took control and 22 when she finally escaped to France with some of her family. Instead of recounting the story here, I’ll just link to this book review, which I agree with for the most part.

I did enjoy it. The writing isn’t spectacular, and I think it’s geared toward teenagers, but it’s a quick read and very eye-opening. There are some anecdotes in there about things that have happened in Af...more

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Sep 24, 2007 bridget. rated it 4 of 5 stars

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the content is so interesting. so little i know as an american. her writing is simple.. not particularly great, but very readable. she is a journalist at heart, and her book is writtne much in this way.

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Oct 01, 2010 Sanz rated it 3 of 5 stars

Why do I get to live a privileged life and these women are beaten, tortured, banned from receiving medical/healthcare and not allowed to leave their homes without a male family member? This is the story of a young woman growing up in Afghanistan when the Taliban took over in the mid nineties. According to the author (who wrote this book under a false name) Pakistan supported the Taliban and yet the rest of the world (including the U.S.) was supporting Pakistan. I didn't realize the influence Pak...more

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Mar 21, 2010 Evelyn Chen rated it 5 of 5 stars

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This is the testimony of Latifa, a 16-year-old girl, who lived in Kabul when the Taliban turned it upside down. Writing under a pseudonym, her story enlightens the dark reality of how this oppressive regime shut the voices of women. Female faces were to be unseen, concealed behind a burka, they were banned from leaving their homes without a male relative, and they were also banned them from work, schools, and public life. Latifa had planned on pursuing journalism, bt when the Taliban took over,...more

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Dec 09, 2008 Shannon rated it 4 of 5 stars

I started to think of this as an Afghani version of Anne Frank's diary- a personal narrative of a young woman who experienced life before and during a repressive regime, generally in pretty plain terms for easy access. I would love to see this taught to US middle/high schoolers as I learned more about Afghanistan's history of conflict than I have in my last few months of informal research.

The book does jump around a bit, and is less thorough in explanations of past events and history than I woul...more

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Feb 02, 2009 Lori rated it 3 of 5 stars

This is a young woman's story of growing up in Afghanistan. She tells how the politics of her country has affected her life and that of her family's. When she was young, they dealt with Soviet rule who imprisoned her brother. At 16 she had to deal with the Taliban coming into power. At first she was depressed and just stayed in her apartment since the only way to go out in public was to be with a male member of her family and then wearing the full body covering of a burka. It is a very enlighten...more

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Apr 14, 2009 Joanne rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a book about a young girl who grew up in Soviet occupied Afghanistan and was 16 years old when the Taliban came. The most profound thing I learned is how the change that women experienced under the Taliban was literally overnight - at least for those who lived in Kabul. One day this girl was going to school and applying for college. Her sister worked for the airlines. The next day all businesses were closed, the radio and television stations were off the air, and women could not leave th...more

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Jul 30, 2012 Linda rated it 4 of 5 stars

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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood addresses the possibility of Christian fanatics taking over the government, whereas My Forbidden Face tells the story of Muslim fanatics (the Taliban) taking over the government. The difference, of course, is that Atwood's book is fiction whereas Latifa's book is non-fiction. Both books are scary-- really scary.

The author is 16 years old in 1996 when the Taliban took over Afganistan with their perverted form of Islam.

I think it's worth reading.

Note: This bo...more

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Dec 01, 2010 Bobertoq rated it 1 of 5 stars

The ending of this book is incredibly lame. It seems like the author got bored of writing and decided to end the book there. The beginning is pretty slow and boring, too. And so is everything in between. It is unclear what the climax or any major events are. The only thing I got out of the book is that the Taliban are bad.

Also, the author goes off on random tangents that last up to several pages. It got a little confusing, and it's annoying. I wouldn't be surprised if half the book is the author...more

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Jun 07, 2011 Mrs. Kirsch rated it 5 of 5 stars

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This is a great biography about strong women in unbelievable situations. The author's mother a doctor is unable to practice medicine and women are not allowed to see male doctors. This leaves a lot of women out of work and even more without health care. How can men deny the mothers of their children healthcare. Don't they care about the health of their unborn children? What kind of a culture discards 1/2 of it's population as unworthy of care. How can men decide that women are not alowed to be i...more

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Jul 25, 2009 Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance rated it 3 of 5 stars

I was fascinating with how Afghanistan
changed under the Taliban. At first,
simple laws were passed that restricted
activities the Taliban considered evil.
Slowly, more and more laws were passed,
making more and more activities declared
evil. Finally, the laws were so stringent
that no one, not even the Taliban, was
following them.

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Dec 17, 2008 Heather rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Latifa is a young woman growing up in Afganistan. She tells her story of how her life changes when the Taliban take over the country. Life for all women, young and old changes under the Taliban. They are no longer able to hold jobs and go to school. Latifa is one of many of the women who create secret schools for girls. She tells how she lives shut away in her home and her final journey to Paris. This book is a fascinating biography of a teenager living under extreme oppression and how she survi...more

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Mar 05, 2012 Lydia rated it 3 of 5 stars

This was a good read - I read it to assess it for its lexile levels and its correlation to Common Core, so my teacher-motivated re-read probably does it injustice. It is a great novel to pair with Thousand Splendid Suns, Kite Runner, and even Dressmaker from Kahir Khana. Personally I felt like it was a novel written for very young audiences, which made me appreciate it less simply because I wanted more depth, but it would be engaging for a younger teenager just finding out about issues related t...more

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Sep 04, 2010 Elaine rated it 3 of 5 stars

Latifa is a pseudonym for the author.

Taliban, (singular Talib) are educated in the Koranic schools of Pakistan who follow the tenets of Deobandism which preaches the rejection of all outside influences. Founded at the end of the nineteenth century in Deoband, India, and supported by the British, who were looking for a religious counterweight to the Hindu faith.

Pashtun is the dominant ethnic group of Afghanistan.

December 1979 the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and established the Khan, a sinist...more

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Jan 12, 2010 Windy hapsari rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: narrow-minded, radical,extremist

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. akhirnya ku menemukan mu :)
ketemu juga buku ini, walaupun bekas tapi masih dalam kondisi bagus.
thanks to Ms. Vanessa from Palembang yang sudah berbaik hati menjual bukunya kepadaku ... thank u
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baru selesai baca buku ini semalam. tidak bisa membayangkan seandainya saya ada disana. menjadi seorang wanita ditengah rezim taliban berkuasa sepertinya adalah sebuah penyiksaan, mimpi buruk, dan pemaksaan untuk bunuh diri.
Latifaa was on...more akhirnya ku menemukan mu :)
ketemu juga buku ini, walaupun bekas tapi masih dalam kondisi bagus.
thanks to Ms. Vanessa from Palembang yang sudah berbaik hati menjual bukunya kepadaku ... thank u
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baru selesai baca buku ini semalam. tidak bisa membayangkan seandainya saya ada disana. menjadi seorang wanita ditengah rezim taliban berkuasa sepertinya adalah sebuah penyiksaan, mimpi buruk, dan pemaksaan untuk bunuh diri.
Latifaa was only 16 when taliban attacked Kabul and hang President Najibullah in Ariana Square.
she is mosleem, and obedient to her religion. but when taliban take over Afghanistan, they run the country based on their narrow minded version of Islam. like women not allowed to go to school, get proper education, not allowed to work outside their premises.
if women wish to go out, they must accompanied by their male relatives. its the law, an obligation that must be obeyed by all Afghanistan citizen.
its just like the another face of genocide.
Latifa was raised in very moderate family, a good mosleem family. her older sister is a journalist and her other one was stewardess. one of her older brother is a soldier and live in Moskow - Russia, and the other one is college student and can not resume his education due to the stupid war.
her mother is an intelligent woman, a gynecologist expert. she helped women for free in her apartment basement secretly. during taliban era,women didnt get proper medication, taliban forbid male doctor to help female, only female doctor who could help. what the f**k?
if you have read a thousand spledid suns, the situation is exactly the same. only 'my forbidden face' write as memoir as it is based on true story.
latifaa now stay in Paris, when she wrote this memoar ( around 2001 ) she cant go back to Afghanistan as taliban released a statement that they will kill the women rebel -> which actually addressed to Latifa and her mother.
Islam is peaceful, Islam not misogynistic.
and they are only bunch of male chauvinist pig run their narrow minded version of religion which i am completely sure not come from any holy bible.(less)

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Mar 22, 2008 Helen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Very powerful (and recent, and relevant) memoir about four years in an Afghan girl's life (from when she's 16 to 20 years old) under the Taliban regime (spanning 1996-2000, approximately).

Just when you think your life is crappy, you read about the lives that others are living overseas (or in your very own city) and realize just how bad it can be. The decrees of the Taliban range from inhuman to simply bizarre: no laughing in the streets, no photos of humans or animals, no health care for women,...more

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Mar 17, 2008 Kimberly rated it 4 of 5 stars

When we American women complain about inequality, we could wake up one day and face the situation of the women of Afghanistan...what a nightmare. Overnight, educated professional women are deprived of their careers, college women are separated from the possibility of a future and girls are removed from early education. A calculated strategy to eradicate any challenge from women in a newly re-established male dominant society. The women are even prevented from giving or receiving basic health car...more

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“I pray God that whoever will lead our country may be, in his heart, as much Pashtun as Tajik, as much Uzbek as Hazara. That his wife may counsel and assist him; that he may choose advisors of great character and wisdom. That books may replace weapons, that education may teach us to respect one another, that our hospitals may be worthy of their mission, and that our culture may be reborn from the ruins of our pillaged museums. That the camps of famished refugees may disappear from our borders, and that the bread the hungry eat be kneaded by their own hands.

I will do more than pray, because when the last talib has put away his black turban and I can be a free woman in a free Afghanistan, I will take up my life there once more and do my duty as a citizen, as a woman, and, I hope, as a mother.” — 2 people liked it

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