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

Latifa was born in Kabul in 1980 into an educated middleclass Afghan family, at once liberal and religious. As a teenager, she was interested in fashion and cinema, and she longed to become a journalist. Then, in 1996, the Taliban seized power. From that moment, Latifa, sixteen years old, became a prisoner in her own home. Her school was closed and her mother was banned from working as a doctor. In this book, Latifa describes the way her world fell apart....