{"id":121,"date":"2006-03-11T11:43:52","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T11:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/2006\/03\/11\/my-forbidden-face\/"},"modified":"2008-11-01T18:53:22","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T01:53:22","slug":"my-forbidden-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2006\/03\/11\/my-forbidden-face\/","title":{"rendered":"My Forbidden Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-121\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\">:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1401359256\/sr=8-1\/qid=1142105972\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/104-0883756-9829569?%5Fencoding=UTF8\" target=\"NewWindow\"> My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban &#8211; A Young Woman&#8217;s Story<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author: <\/strong>Latifa<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback: <\/strong>224 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Miramax Books; 1st ed. I. edition (July 9, 2003)<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN: <\/strong>1401359256<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Inside the Kingdom<\/span> (earlier in this blog).<\/p>\n<p>The book is written in a simple, direct, story-telling fashion.  The story pained me to read &#8211; 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).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-121\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 121);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-121\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-121\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban &#8211; A Young Woman&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-1X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}