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Unveiled: Voices of Women in Afghanistan [Hardcover]

Harriet Logan (Author)
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"We have been forgotten, and we need the right to speak. If no one hears what we say, nothing will change."

In 1997, during the Taliban's repressive rule, award-winning photographer Harriet Logan went to Afghanistan and encountered a group of extraordinary women whose strong characters and dreams for the future made an indelible impression on her. Despite the peril to her life and theirs, she captured their lives in a series of striking photographs. The women risked their safety by speaking to and being photographed by her because they felt that the outside world needed to know what was happening to them. The images of women from 1997 contrast sharply with those from the 1970s, when they were free to dress as they wished, speak up for their rights, and pursue their educations alongside men.

After the Taliban's defeat at the end of 2001, Logan returned to Afghanistan, where she found many of these women again and met others. These courageous and intelligent women shared with her stories of unimaginable sadness and abiding strength through the long years of war and uncertainty. Zargoona, a widow, reveals that she could not afford to treat her cancer because Taliban law prevented women from earning a living. Nahed, a schoolteacher, has vowed never to marry because even her own brothers beat her, Durkhanai, the daughter of a famous television anchor-woman, tells how she experienced the joys of family life and the pain of lost freedom all at once: "We were like birds in a cage. For me, maybe my cage was good -- my home was full of happiness. We love each other here and we are not hungry. But outside it was terrible." Nine-year-old Sanam rejoices that she can carry her doll without being beaten for idolatry. Latifa lost her foot when she stepped on a mine and subsequently left her house only four times during Taliban rule. She begs of women across the world: "Please help us Afghan women. We have just come out of a dark period into the sunshine. Learn from us so that what we have suffered will never happen again."

Logan's photographs reveal the world of these women, from portraits of them at home to the war-torn landscapes of Kabul and its marketplaces newly brimming with beauty products. This stunning journey in text and image will open the reader's eyes to the Afghanistan of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

About the Author

Harriet Logan is one of Britain's most intrepid photographers. Well known for tackling tough stories, she has photographed diverse subjects, including AIDS victims, prostitutes around the world, and emergency rooms and trauma units. Her work has appeared world-wide in the London Sunday Times Magazine, Fortune, Marie Claire, and Elle. Logan won the two premier U.K. awards for Young Photographer of the Year, the Ian Parry and David Hodge Awards, as well as a special award for magazine photographer at the 1999 Picture Editors' Awards and the 2000 Vic Odden Award from the Royal Photographic Society. Logan's photographs have been exhibited in Perpignan, France; London; Los Angeles; and other cities around the world. A member of Network Photographers since1994, she lives in London with her husband, Andy, and her two children, Jackson and Freddie.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Good Pictures, Simplistic Portrayal of Afghanistan, Feb 6 2004
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This review is from: Unveiled: Voices of Women in Afghanistan (Hardcover)
The first thing I had a problem with, right off the bat, was the cover and the title. There is too much focus on the burqa and not enough on real issues. I flipped to the back cover to see the author's credentials and was not surprised to find that the author is really a photographer. I think she would have done better not to have included superficial history and just focused on the women. The history in the book only goes as far as: before, during, and after the Taliban. Everything written is predictable. Before Taliban-good, during-bad, after-good. The history of Afghanistan is, of course, much more complicated than any one regime and I think it is better NOT to have a book like this, than have it. It takes the focus off of other issues and lays the blame on the Taliban and their major offense as the burqa.

I gave it one star, though, because of the black and white pictures. The book should have been strictly a pictoral view of these women's lives.

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2.0 out of 5 stars paints an unrealistic picture of life for women pre-taliban, July 28 2003
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This review is from: Unveiled: Voices of Women in Afghanistan (Hardcover)
I lived in Kabul in the late 1970's. Although there were women who went about unveiled, attended university,and appeared to be living a life of equality to men, they were just a tiny fraction of the Kabul elite and in no way represented the lives of the vast majority of Afghan women. Afghanistan is a wonderful country that I dearly love, but it serves no purpose to pretend that they were once had a highly westernized society, where women had unlimited opportunities. Let Afghan women in Afghanistan define what their future is to be, not Western feminists who think that they know what it should be.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Disturbing, informative, Feb 25 2003
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Cynthia (Colorado Springs, Colorado United States) - See all my reviews
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This book would be a superb first read for anyone wanting to understand the hardships women experienced under the Taliban. It compares women's lives before and after the Taliban came to power. The women to tell their own stories whenever possible, and photographs reinforce the main ideas. The major thrust of this book is that these women should not be forgotten again...
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