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

An astonishing first-hand account of a young womans life lived under the tyranny of the Taliban.Born into a middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980, Latifa spent her teenage days talking fashion and movies with her friends, listening to music, and dreaming of one day becoming a journalist. Then, on September 26, 1996, Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul. Suddenly, streets were deserted. Her school was closed. Phones were cut. The radio fel...

By Latifa Latifa
Hardcover: 210 pages
Publisher: Miramax Books; First Edition edition (March 13, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780786869015
ISBN-13: 978-0786869015
ASIN: 0786869011
Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 0.9 x 8.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 541046
Format: PDF Text TXT ebook

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When reading this book I was hoping for a detailed personal account of a woman under Taliban rule, and in a way that is what this book delivered. This book does share some small personal accounts of life under the Taliban, of the atrocities committed

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