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My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story (Reprint Edition) by Shekeba Hachemi, Latifa Latifa, Linda Coverdale Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2003 ISBN-10: 1-4013-5925-6 / 1401359256 ISBN-13: 978-1-4013-5925-6 / 9781401359256 My Forbidden Face frames a fragment of Afghanistan's bloody history through the eyes of 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 their freedom. She describes the sudden change tha |