Unveiled: Voices of Women in Afghanistan

by Harriet Logan

A stunning journey, in striking photographic images and intimate personal stories, through the world of women in Afghanistan before, during and after the Taliban, with photographs taken by award-winning photographer Harriet Logan. This book seeks to tell the personal stories, through photographs and short anecdotes, of several women in Afghanistan who spent years depersonalised behind their veils. In 1997, Harriet Logan went to Afghanistan and met a phenomenal group of women with strong personalities and great dreams for their lives. Despite the peril to her life and theirs, she photographed them. From November to December 2001, Logan returned to Afghanistan to find these women again, and to learn how their situation had evolved since the first time she met them, under the repressive rule of the Taliban. In so doing, Harriet also met more outstanding women, and recorded the womens' existing doubts and enduring hopes for a better future.

Genres: Nonfiction, Womens, Middle East

128 pages, Hardcover

First published April 2, 2002

Reviews

[Lilly Qamar · Rating 3 out of 5]

Um livro verdadeiro ,forte e impactante , nos deparamos com várias realidade totalmente diferente do nosso mundinho.

[Ivey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reading this book 22 years later is so depressing knowing they were so hopeful

[Tempo de Ler · Rating 2 out of 5]

Em «Mulheres de Cabul» a fotógrafa Harriet Logan alia magníficas imagens fotográficas a relatos perturbadores de mulheres afegãs antes e depois da queda do regime Taliban (1997 e 2001).
Ao acompanhar o desenvolvimento da vida de algumas mulheres entre estas duas datas e conhecendo novas mulheres em 2001, cedo nos apercebemos da sua força e coragem para conseguir sobreviver numa atmosfera tão opressiva, bem como o seu expresso desejo de liberdade.
O contraste social entre a nossa realidade e a realidade destas mulheres é brutal, especialmente no que toda ao papel da mulher na sociedade. É, de certo, animador apreciar as melhorias depois da queda deste regime.
Arriscando as suas próprias vidas para partilhar connosco as suas vidas, partilham em simultâneo a crueldade do mundo que as aprisiona e rebaixa.
Um livro muito interessante que vale a pela ler só pelas formidáveis fotografias. Contudo, não é o que estava à espera, daí apenas as duas estrelas.

[Nick · Rating 5 out of 5]

Photos of Afghan women, taken in 1997 under the Taliban and again in 2001 (for those the author could locate) after their fall, with what they told the narrator, ranging from a former television anchor to others in the direst poverty that savage repression and unlimited war can inflict. Beautiful, devastating, harrowing, beyond any words. Except their own.

[Katie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an interesting and eye-opening collection from the women of Afghanistan who'd met with the author in 1997, and again in 2001. What the women endured under the Taliban was dehumanizing, to say the very least.

[Marinda Hicks · Rating 4 out of 5]

When Harriet Logan vists Afghanistan about the Taliban invasion, she learns about the struggles the women go through to support their family and live. I wish we could learn and read about why they attacked and about other people who were hurt by the Taliban .

[Christina · Rating 5 out of 5]

changed my life! beautiful photography, beautiful words. LOVE it

[Aline · Rating 5 out of 5]

Registrei um livro no BookCrossing.com!
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[Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stunning photos before and after the revolution...totally unreal, unbelievable, and astounding....Feels as though it's not possible... but it was, and is.

[Bonnie Ridley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Research for two of my books: A Land without Morning, and Consequences.