My Forbidden Face

Latifa was born in Kabul, in 1980, into an educated middle-class Afghan family, at once liberal and religious.

Then, in 1996, the Taliban seized power. From that moment, Latifa, sixteen years old, became a prisoner in her own home. Latifa describes the way her world fell apart in the name of a fanatical interpretation of a faith.

Her story goes to the heart of a people caught up in a terrible tragedy in a brutalised country.