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...schooling was forbidden to girls over the age of eight. A recent U.N. report estimated that at most 7% of Afghan girls were enrolled in school, compared with roughly half the boys. In Peshawar, the Pakistani city near the border to which many Afghan refugees have escaped, Masooda is a shy second-grade girl--but she is 16. She left school five years ago, on the day the Taliban entered her central Afghan town of Kota Sangi and beat her with a cane for not wearing a burka. When her family fled to Pakistan two weeks ago to escape...
...little bit proud. It’s the cooking part itself, however, that I like the most. For so long I have been taught to obsess over food, whether I am eating too much or the wrong kind, and this breeds an obsessive focus on food because it is forbidden in so many forms...
...clerics who formed an army just two years ago, the Taliban now control 75% of a country torn by war... In their first week the Taliban shut girls out of schools and ordered women workers from offices and hospitals. At a press conference, two female foreign correspondents were forbidden to ask questions of the Acting Deputy Foreign Minister Shirmohammad Stanekzai, because, according to an aide, he "must not hear their voices" ...Residents of Kabul were generally too cautious to express concern about the Taliban out loud, but they certainly had reason to wonder: at the first Taliban-attended Friday prayer...
...German army marched into Hungary: "The German soldiers...wore shiny boots and had a self-confident air about them. They reminded me of my toy soldiers...I was impressed." Soon the Jews were required to wear a yellow Star of David. The Nazis took away the family's radio: forbidden. They arrested the building superintendent's wife for bringing chicken soup and mashed potatoes to Andris when he was sick: against the law to feed Jews. One day Andris looked outside his window and saw German soldiers loading the occupants of a Jewish apartment building into trucks: "The people filing...
...With the Taliban gone, Fakhria hopes to open a storefront salon. No blackened windows anymore to hide the forbidden faces. She also wants to go back to her teaching job. "I can make more money in a salon," she says. "But I want to pass on knowledge...