The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
April 04, 2011 Monday AT 3PM CT

 
 

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When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 1996, women's lives changed overnight as they were forced into their homes. Yet Afghan women didn’t give up. Journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon tells us the story of a young woman who became an entrepreneur and whose business created jobs and hope for many women in her neighborhood during the Taliban years.



Guest
  • Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Deputy Director of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Women and Foreign Policy program, author of The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
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