Kabul

The Underground Girls of Kabul: In search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan Joy Dorsey Towson University Jenny Nordberg’s, The Underground Girls of Kabul: in search of the hidden resistance in Afghanistan is a collection of stories that shows the emerging resistance of gender norms placed on women and young girls in Afghanistan culture following the Taliban’s 2001 influence . Her aims at educating the readers knowledge of the cultural practice of this society brings to light the…

Kabul Beauty School by Debbie Rodriguez, an author, humanitarian, and licensed cosmetologist, is 270 pages-long and takes place in early 2000’s Afghanistan where Rodriguez joined the Kabul Beauty School. Debbie Rodriguez left her mother, children, and abusive husband behind in the United States to move to Afghanistan and help the Afghan people after the fall of the Taliban. Debbie Rodriguez first arrived in Afghanistan with a group of Christians from an organization that made the journey over…

In The Underground Girls of Kabul, Jenny Nordberg writes about how fathers and husbands have influenced on women’s lives. In Afghanistan, women’s lives are determined by their father and husband. A father has an absolute authority over his daughter’s marriage. He can decide whom his daughter is going to marry. When a woman is married, her husband can take control of her life. The daughter should always obey her father and husband. In the book, NordBerg writes about the story of several women…

This statement is ironic, as it contrasts Baba’s lifestyle in Kabul, compared to America. Amir asserts that “Baba, had built the most beautiful house in [...] a new and affluent neighborhood in [...] Kabul” (4). However, Amir later thinks that the “homes” in America, make Baba’s “beautiful house” seem like a “servant’s hut” (135). These contrasted statements clearly show the differences in lifestyle and social statuses between the two countries that Baba lives in. During his life in Afghanistan,…

In The memoir Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez went beyond to help women to fulfill their dream and empower them. Rodriguez takes us through a journey filled with stories about her own life and how it is interconnected with the Kabul women in such ways. Rodriguez’s struggle and hard work to open up the Beauty school in Kabul has led to discoveries of afghan women as capable, confident, deeply determined and endlessly resilient. In a country where women have very few opportunities to…

“...war is a distant backdrop; Afghan women cannot make political decisions, though they bear the brunt of their awful consequences” (Ghafour). She further explains that her school was probably the only place in Kabul where women are safe to be themselves, express and feel like human beings again. Questions are being asked as to why the Taliban focused their attention mainly and strictly on women being “perfect”, perfect as in always inside, properly covered from…

culture shock is from his move from Kabul to San Francisco. This change for Baba is so devastating and challenging due to his life style in Kabul being so luxurious and him being a well known man of the society. He was of high social status and was an influential man in their town. His lower class life style he lives in America is no comparison to the life he lived in Kabul. Baba being so well known, nobody would ever ask him for identification for anything in Kabul. "[Baba pays] him for the…

surviving in Kabul from his dad because Amir wants his dad to except him for who he is. Amir had to go through each day by pretending like someone he is not for his dad. Amir also use to lack attention from his dad. Amir’s dad does not pay attention to Amir when he has something important to say. Amir says, “Baba went on staring me down, and didn 't offer to read” (Hosseini 31).Amir’s dad didn’t want to read the story that Amir wrote which, demonstrates how he is surviving in Kabul from his dad…

Hosseini, situating in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, drastically shifted settings in chapters eleven to fifteen to a popular American city. The radical change in location caused an offset in Baba’s lifestyle. Originally, Baba lived in an extravagant home in Kabul. The house came with the benefits of a servant, “marble floors… wide windows… gold stitched tapestries… [and] a crystal chandelier…” (p.4). It was “thought [to be] the prettiest house in all of Kabul,” (p.4). After departing to America,…

traveled back to Skardu and heard bad new about Agha Mubarek attacking his school in Hemasil and gave him a fatwa and he does not have enough money for any support. Julia Bergman joined Greg in his work in Afghanistan, they traveled to Kabul and donated medical books to Kabul Medical Institute. Then he traveled to Uzra’s school with a bad new that she and her fellow teachers haven’t receive their salaries yet so Greg decided to give her his money and went to Afghanistan finance area to question,…