¶ … Forbidden Face and the Woman Warrior
In My Forbidden Face, Latifa narrates a poignant coming-of-age story of a young girl growing up under the brutal regime of the Taliban. Latifa skillfully pulls the reader into a world that seems that of a typical teenager. She writes of "college, girlfriends in search of music tapes, film videos, novels to read avidly in bed in the evening" (11).
Latifa's protected world collapses when the Taliban assume power in 1997. Until then, Latifa had enjoyed the privileges afforded by her family's relative affluence. Latifa went to school, talked to her friends about fashion, dreamed about Indian and Iranian movie stars. She did not wear a veil and donned skirts that were hemmed at the knee. More importantly, the young author had strong career ambitions. Her own mother was a gynecological nurse, while Latifa herself planned for a career in journalism.
Latifa makes it clear that the oppression of the Afghan people in general and of the Afghan women in particular was a result not of Islam, but of the Taliban -- the extremist group with regulations on everything from the ownership of tea kettles (prohibited) to the social conduct of women.
As soon as they assumed power, the Taliban eroded the freedoms that Latifa and other Afghan women had previously taken for granted. In the following months, women were forbidden from attending work or school. They were forbidden from wearing skirts, pants or pantyhose. They are then made to wear the chadri, "a shapeless cloth tent sewn to a tight-fitting cap and covering...
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