The Regression of the Taliban

Yasmin: Can you speak to whether this was like these things were a motivation to write the book in this first place? And then maybe I'll save the very last question for after you answer that one. Yasmin: Yes, absolutely. Because, you know, I never wrote a book. I didn't even wear a headscarf all the time. My mother had given up the burqa. My grandmother had give up the burka. It's very interesting. If you Google Afghanistan's university students in the 1970s, there's a picture there with three girls in mini skirts in Kabul,. and Iran, university in Tehran. They sit on a wall, mini skirts.