My Forbidden Face
- Title: My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban – A Young Woman’s Story
- Author: Latifa
- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Miramax Books; 1st ed. I. edition (July 9, 2003)
- ISBN: 1401359256
I spent three months working in Saudi Arabia, and that gave me an interest in the Arab world. So, I decided to read this book as a companion to Inside the Kingdom (earlier in this blog).
The book is written in a simple, direct, story-telling fashion. The story pained me to read – a girl becoming a woman, looking towards a future, and that comes to an abrupt halt when the Taliban take Kabul and enforce their form of the Sharia (Sharia is the legal code of Islam).
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March 11th, 2006 by alephnaught