| Description |
x, 180 pages ; 22 cm |
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regular print |
| Summary |
Latifa was born in Kabul in 1980 into an educated middle-class Afghan family, at once liberal and religious. As a teenager she was interested in fashion and cinema and going out with her friends, and she longed to become a journalist. Her mother, a doctor, and her father a businessman, encouraged her dreams. Then, in 1996, the Taliban seized power. From that moment, Latifa, sixteen years old, became a prisoner in her own home. Her school was closed. Her mother was banned from working. The simplest and most basic freedoms - walking down the street, looking out of a window - were no longer hers. She was now forced to cover herself entirely with a burqa. With painful honesty and clarify, Latifa describes how her world fell apart in the name of a fanatical interpretation of a faith |
| Analysis |
Afghanistan |
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Women |
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Taliban |
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Social conditions |
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Sex discrimination |
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Autobiography |
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Overseas item |
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Latifa |
| Notes |
"Translated by Lisa Appignanesi" |
| Subject |
Latifa, 1980-
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Latifa
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Latifa
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Taliban.
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Women -- Afghanistan -- Biography.
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Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Women -- Biography.
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Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions.
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Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 1989-2001.
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Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 2001-
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Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 1973-1989.
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Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 1973-
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| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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Autobiographies.
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| Author |
Appignanesi, Lisa.
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Hachemi, Chékéba.
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| LC no. |
2003386504 |
| ISBN |
1860499562 paperback |
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1860499619 hardback |
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1860499600 paperback |
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