The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safeby Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. When the Taliban took control of Kabul, Kamila Sidiqi and all the women of Kabul saw their lives transformed overnight. Desperate to help her family, Kamila began sewing clothes in her living room and eventually started a dressmaking business.