Well meaning but sometimes brazen, Rodriguez stumbled through language barriers, overstepped cultural customs, and constantly juggled the challenges of a postwar nation even as she learned how to empower her students to become their families’ breadwinners by learning the fundamentals of coloring techniques, haircutting, and makeup. With the help of corporate and international sponsors, the Kabul Beauty School welcomed its first class in 2003. Yet she soon found she had a gift for befriending Afghans, and once her profession became known she was eagerly sought out by Westerners desperate for a good haircut and by Afghan women, who have a long and proud tradition of running their own beauty salons. Surrounded by men and women whose skills-as doctors, nurses, and therapists-seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother of two from Michigan, despaired of being of any real use. Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. You can read this before Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil written by Deborah Rodriguez which was published in 2007–. Brief Summary of Book: Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez
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