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. My Forbidden Face provides a poignant and highly personal account of life under the Taliban regime. The simplest and most basic freedoms - walking down the street, looking out a window - were no longer hers. From that moment, Latifa, just 16 years old became a prisoner in her own home. Then in September 1996, Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul. Her father was in the import/export business and her mother was a doctor.
She dreamed of one day of becoming a journalist, she was interested in fashion, movies and friends. Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She reveals her helplessness and despair, and her own defiance under the regime. Born into an educated, middle-class family in Kabul, Latifa's world changed from the moment the Taliban seized power there in 1996. About the Book A poignant first-hand account of life for a young Afghani woman under the Taliban.
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