Earlier in 2001, Latifa and her parents escaped Afghanistan with the help of a French-based Afghan resistance group. Her voice captures a lost innocence, but also echoes her determination to live in freedom and hope. With painful honesty and clarity, she describes the way she watched her world falling apart, in the name of a fanatical expression of faith that she could not comprehend. Seller Rating: Contact seller Book Used - Softcover Condition: Good US 3.00 Convert currency US 2.99 Shipping Within U.S.A. Post by flexiprepaid, combined postage available biography Get great deals on Childrens Books. My Forbidden Face Latifa Published by Piatkus, 2013 ISBN 10: 1860499619 ISBN 13: 9781860499616 Seller: HPB-Diamond, Dallas, U.S.A. This is Latifa's poignant and highly personal account of life under the Taliban regime. Buy My forbidden face - Latifa in Kota Kinabalu,Malaysia. But the teaching gave her a reason to get up in the morning. Latifa knew that she was risking her life for something that could change little. To avoid arousing suspicion, the children were not allowed to attend every day, nor could they keep regular hours. In a step of defiance, she set up a clandestine school in her home for a small number of young girls. Latifa struggled against an overwhelming sense of helplessness and despair. Having never worn even a veil before, she now was forced to wear a chadri. 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 of 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 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.

My Forbidden Face by Latifa