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The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything To Keep Them Safe
By Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach
- ISBN
- 978-0-06173-237-9
- Publisher
- Harper: HarperCollins
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Reviewed on February 15, 2011
Journalist Lemmon (deputy director, Women & Foreign Policy Prog., Council on Foreign Relations) tells the moving story of Kamila Sidiqi, a young woman in Kabul, Afghanistan, who, out of desperation, started a successful dressmaking business to support her family and other destitute women during the repressive Taliban regime. Lemmon encountered Kamila in 2005 when Lemmon was on assignment for the Fina...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
