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When Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, author of The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, first met Kamila Sidiqi, it was to interview her as the basis of a case study in female entrepreneurship for Harvard Business School.

Nina Sankovitch: The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Entrepreneur of Inspiration Nina Sankovitch 2011

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana is a book to be shared across genders and generations, a truly uplifting and very true story of how one woman set out to start a business and ended up preserving the dignity of so many women; opened up possibilities for hundreds more; and inspired thousands.

Nina Sankovitch: The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Entrepreneur of Inspiration Nina Sankovitch 2011

The story of the business she built under the Taliban, The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, is now a book recently published by HarperCollins.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: Why Do We Think Small When It Comes to Women? Gayle Tzemach Lemmon 2011

When Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, author of The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, first met Kamila Sidiqi, it was to interview her as the basis of a case study in female entrepreneurship for Harvard Business School.

Nina Sankovitch: The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Entrepreneur of Inspiration Nina Sankovitch 2011

The story of the business she built under the Taliban, The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, is now a book recently published by HarperCollins.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: Why Do We Think Small When It Comes to Women? Gayle Tzemach Lemmon 2011

The story of the business she built under the Taliban, The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, is now a book recently published by HarperCollins.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: Why Do We Think Small When It Comes to Women? Gayle Tzemach Lemmon 2011

The French military source said he had been told the commander of Libya's southern forces, General Ali Khana, may also be in Niger, not far from the Libyan border.

Large Libyan convoy arrives in Niger: sources Reuters 2011

He said he had been told that Gaddafi and his son Saif would join Khana and catch up with the convoy should they choose to accept Burkina Faso's offer of exile.

Large Libyan convoy arrives in Niger: sources Reuters 2011

The story of the business she built under the Taliban, The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, is now a book recently published by HarperCollins.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: Why Do We Think Small When It Comes to Women? Gayle Tzemach Lemmon 2011

Kamila had overcome enormous odds to begin a home-based seamstress business in her neighborhood of Khair Khana in Kabul, Afghanistan, a business that grew to encompass dozens of female workers and some males, like one of Kamila's brothers who proved to be particularly adept at embroidery and that became not only a steady wage-provider for all its workers but also a teaching cooperative and a sanctuary.

Nina Sankovitch: The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Entrepreneur of Inspiration Nina Sankovitch 2011