Earlier this year, 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 Latifa describes the way she watched her world falling apart, in the name of a fanatical interpretation of a faith that she could not comprehend. With painful honesty and clarity Latifa describes the way she watched her world falling apart, in the name of a fanatical interpretation of a faith that she could not comprehend. Latifa and her parents escaped Afghanistan in May 2001 and were brought to Europe in an operation organized by a French-based Afghan resistance group and Elle. 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 a window - were no longer hers. Then in September 1996, Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul.įrom that moment, Latifa, just 16 years old became a prisoner in her own home. Her father was in the import/export business and her mother was a doctor. It records the events experienced by Latifa, her family, her friends, and how all Afghan girls and women are deprived of their rights in their own country, living in darkness even after the dawn of the twenty-first century. She dreamed of one day of becoming a journalist, she was interested in fashion, movies and friends. My Forbidden Face is the story of a young Afghani woman. Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980.

My Forbidden Face by Latifa