... One question Latifa does raise in so many words, and I must re-iterate: why are these people so scared of their own women?
My other half suggested that this is basic primate behaviour: that it is not fear, just the alpha-male jealously guarding his "possessions". I don't know. If that ... Read review
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My Forbidden Face
My Forbidden Face frames a fragment of Afghanistan's bloody history through the eyes of
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its author, Latifa. Now 22, Latifa was 16 when the Taliban seized power in 1996. Overnight, Afghani women were stripped of their aspirations, their pleasures and th...
My Forbidden Face - Latifa
My Forbidden Faceframes a fragment of Afghanistan's bloody history through the eyes of its
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author, Latifa. Now 22, Latifa was 16 when the Taliban seized power in 1996. Overnight, Afghani women were stripped of their aspirations, their pleasures and the...
My Forbidden Face - Latifa
Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She dreamed
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of one day becoming a journalist she was interested in fashion movies and friends. Her father was in the import/export business and her mother was a doctor. Then ...
Advantages: A powerful memoir, simply told Disadvantages: None
...all matters because it affects my reading of Latifa's testimony. I come to this work from my own perspective, and I do not wish to offend anyone by my reactions to it. What follows is purely personal.
On these pages I have often expressed a dislike of the long intro to a book review….hook them in, I say, people want to know about the book not the fact that you got it from your third cousin's aunt-in-law and thought you might as well read it because ... ...I'm going to break my rule…bear with me…
A few weeks ago was International Women's Day. What's that all about, I hear you ask, and I cannot answer you…because I have no idea. Why should 'women' have a day, and men not? Intellectually, if that is your response, I tend to agree with you. I believe in the equality ~ and the diversity ~ of the sexes. We are not the same, nor should we wish to be. Equality of right, equality of opportunity, equality ...
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