The Dressmaker of Khair Khana is a book by author Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, published in March 2011 by HarperCollins. It documents the story of Kamila Sidiqi, a young female entrepreneur working during the years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, a time when the rights of women were severely restricted. Dressmaker is the first book by Lemmon, who serves as deputy director of the Council on Foreign Relations' Women and Foreign Policy program. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Financial Times, and The Christian Science Monitor amongst other publications. The Dressmaker of Khair Khana is a New York Times Bestseller and is currently ranked in Amazon.com's Top 100 Bestseller list. The book was edited by Julia Cheiffetz and was acquired by Lisa Sharkey.