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3 unusual facts about Christina Lamb


Christina Lamb

In her time she interviewed and became good friends with many in the local community including future Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

Her first major interview was with Benazir Bhutto in London in 1987 where subsequently she was then invited to her wedding in Pakistan later that year.

Golden Needle Sewing School

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.



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