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Christina Lamb: The Sewing Circles of Herat

Imagine ​a land where it is forbidden for women to wear lipstick, white shoes, or shoes that click on the ground. Where women are not allowed to laugh out loud, nor their silhouettes even be visible from a window. Where streets and parks cannot bear female names. A land of no music where the only entertainment is public amputations and executions.

That’s what Afghanistan was like under the Taliban. People said even the birds had flown away. A tribal chief from Kandahar asked the Taliban leader Mullah Omar what people were supposed to do for fun. “Go and look at flowers”, he replied. But after the Taliban took over there was no rain for five years and all the flowers died.

Their distrust of culture mean that nowhere came under worse repression than the ancient city of Herat, once a centre of Persian culture with a powerful Queen. Bodies hanging from lampposts became a regular sight at the Flower crossroads in the city centre.

It was just behind this… (tovább)

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Perennial, New York, 2004
352 oldal · ISBN: 0060505273

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