My experience so far on the book My Forbidden Face is how thing change literally overnight for women under the Taliban rules in soviet occupied Afghanistan.  The testimony of the author, who lived in Kabul when the Taliban turned it upside down, tells of the dark reality of how this oppressive regime shouts the voices of women. Female faces were to be unseen, concealed behind a burka, they were banned from leaving their homes without a male relative, and they were also banned from work, school, and public life. For example, the author had planned on pursuing journalism, but when the Taliban took over she was forced to observe and make sense of what was happening to women.

I could not engage the book immediately, because I have some assignment to do. However, reading the book make me feel sad and disturbed for women under the Taliban rules, because of the horrors and injustices that occurred against women. I think they were basically trying to eliminate women. For example, white is the color of the Taliban flag, so women are not allowed to wear white.