 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 be educated under the strict interpretation of Islamic law introduced by the Taliban, 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.