Veiled Threat

Denied schooling, employment and adequate health care and confined to their homes unless accompanied by a male relative, the women of Afghanistan struggled to survive under the Taliban regime. Appearing alone in public or without a burqua could cause a stoning. But as Veiled Threat reveals, many women and girls of Afghanistan rebelled against the Taliban. Author Sally Armstrong introduces us to several of those extraordinary women - among them a radio announcer, a psychiatrist, a pharmacist, a civil engineer, and Dr. Sima Samar, who operated secret schools and hospitals for girls. With insight and power, Armstrong describes the waking hell the women were forced to live, and their acts of resistance that testified to their courage and spirit.