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The book under review “My Forbidden Face” has been written by a young Afghan woman from Kabul under the pen name of Latifa, on the account of security. She and her family had death threats and she had to be careful as she still had friends and families back in Afghanistan, who faithfully recorded events over a five-year period as they happened to her and her family in their country (Afghanistan) after it was taken over by the Taliban. It was written after her and her family's escape to France in May 2001 and was brought to Europe in an operation organized by a French-based Afghan resistance group and Elle Magazine. Since then she has been writing My Forbidden Face in collaboration with Chekeba Hachemi, They both live in Paris. This is her first book. Written in seven small chapters, along with an afterword, the book gives an unusual information, as according to Latifa, though she was well-off, so things were seen from a different perspective, than the underprivileged yet she also faced subjugation. This book is a true, gloomy and brutal saga of many violations of human rights towards women in Afghanistan and an informative description of the political overthrow by the Taliban, the rapid revolution of terror and chaos to sustain control and suffocate its citizens.