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Zafir stared at her and suddenly Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in She dreamed of one day of becoming a journalist, she was interested in fashion, movies and friends.

Then in September , Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul. From that moment, Latifa, just 16 years old became a prisoner in her own home. Her school was closed.

Her mother was banned from working. The simplest and most basic freedoms - walking down the street, looking out a window - were no longer hers. She was now forced to wear a chadri.

My Forbidden Face provides a poignant and highly personal account of life under the Taliban regime. With painful honesty and clarity Latifa describes the way she watched her world falling apart, in the name of a fanatical interpretation of a faith that she could not comprehend. Her voice captures a lost innocence, but also echoes her determination to live in freedom and hope.

Earlier this year, Latifa and her parents escaped Afghanistan with the help of a French-based Afghan resistance group. A poignant first-hand account of life for a young Afghani woman under the Taliban. Born into an educated, middle-class family in Kabul, her world changed from the moment the Taliban seized power there in Classifications Dewey Decimal Class Z75 L38 The Physical Object Pagination xi, p.

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