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Hairdresser Deborah Rodriguez details her experiences in post-Taliban Afghanistan, discussing the opening of her beauty school and recalls the personal stories of various women who overcame obstacles to obtain an education in cosmetology.

Chronicles The Marafat School, an award-winning institution in the slums of Kabul, Afghanistan where the Hazaras, the country's most vulnerable population, go beyond reading and writing and learn how to question, criticize, and create provocative art.

Sunny, a thirty-eight-year-old American, establishes a coffee shop in the middle of war-torn Afghanistan, which becomes a safe haven and comfort to the men and women patrons who meet there, including Halajan, who works alongside Sunny and harbors a secret relationship from her ultra-traditional son, and Yazmina, a young woman who was kidnapped from a remote village, impregnated, and left on a the city street.

Eighteen-year-old Phyllis Chesler, a Jewish-American girl from Brooklyn, fell in love with a wealthy college Afghan student in 1961. They married and went to Afghanistan where her American passport was taken away and she became the property of her husband's polygamous family. Despite the fact that she was trapped she managed to escape. This book is her memories of that time.

Recounts the true story of Kamila Sidiqi, a woman who was forced to support herself and her five siblings after the Taliban seized control of the city of Kabul and her father and brothers fled the country.

Hairdresser Deborah Rodriguez details her experiences in post-Taliban Afghanistan, discussing the opening of her beauty school and recalls the personal stories of various women who overcame obstacles to obtain an education in cosmetology.