Английская Википедия:Golden Needle Sewing School
The Golden Needle Sewing School was an underground school for women in Herat, Afghanistan, during the First Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Because women were not allowed to be educated under the strict interpretation of Islamic law introduced by the Taliban,[1] women writers belonging to the Herat Literary Circle set up a group called the Sewing Circles of Herat, which founded the Golden Needle Sewing School in or around 1996.[2]
Women would visit the school three times a week, ostensibly to sew, but would instead hear lectures given by professors of literature from Herat University. Children playing outside would alert the group if the religious police approached, giving them time to hide their books and pick up sewing equipment. Herat may have been the most oppressed area under the Taliban, according to Christina Lamb, author of The Sewing Circles of Herat, because it was a cultured city and mostly Shi'a, both of which the Taliban opposed.[2] She told Radio Free Europe:
See also
- Afghanistan
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- Islamic feminism
- Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
- Sewing circle
- Sharia
- Treatment of women by the Taliban
- Women in Islam
Notes
Further reading
- Lamb, Christina. The Sewing Circles of Herat. HarperCollins, 2004.
- The Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan, accessed 29 July 2010.
- ↑ "The Taliban's War on Women" Шаблон:Webarchive, Physicians for Human Rights, August 1998, accessed 29 July 2010.
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 Synovitz, Ron. "Afghanistan: Author Awaits Happy Ending To 'Sewing Circles Of Herat'", Radio Free Europe, March 31, 2004, accessed 29 July 2010. Also see Lamb, Christina. "Woman poet 'slain for her verse'", The Sunday Times, November 13, 2005.
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