Golden needle sewing school
The Golden Needle Sewing School was an underground school for women in Herat, Afghanistan, during the rule of the Taliban .
Because women were not allowed to go to school, authors of the Herat literary circle founded a group called the Herat Sewing Circle. This group founded the Golden Needle Sewing School around 1996.
The women went to school three times a week, apparently to sew, but instead listened to lectures from literary professors from Herat University . Children who played outside kept watch and warned them about the religious guards in good time, so that they had time to hide their books and get out their sewing kits.
literature
- Christina Lamb. The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan . Flamingo 2002.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Belinda Elizabeth Jack : The Woman Reader . Yale University Press, New Haven 2012, ISBN 978-0-300-12045-5 , pp. 293 f.