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My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban
My Forbidden Face Growing Up Under the Taliban Author:Latifa, Shekeba Hachemi, Linda Coverdale (Translator) "I pray God that whoever will lead our contry may be in his heart as much Pashtun as Tajik, as much Uzbek as Hazara. — That his wife may counsel and assist him; that he may choose advisors of great character and wisdom. that books may replace weapons, that education may teach us to respect one another, that our hospitals may be worthy of their mi... more »ssion, an dthat our culture may be reborn from the ruins of our pillaged museums.
That the camps of famished refugees may disappear from our borders, and that the bread of the hungry eat be kneaded by their own hands.
I will do more than pray, because when the last talib has put away his black turban nad I can be a free woman in a free Afghanistan, I will take up my life there once more and do my duty as a citizen, as a woman, and, I hope, as a mother."« less