Deborah Rodriguez - "The Kabul Beauty School"

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=912

Deborah Rodriguez, founder of the Kabul Beauty School, explains why she decided to leave her home in Michigan to join a humanitarian aid group in Afghanistan.

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Deborah Rodriguez talks about "The Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil."

Rodriguez and co-author Kristin Ohlson tell the story of the beauty school that manages to survive in the middle of Kabul. It lifts the veil of secrecy about the vibrant women who were her students there. -- Book Passage

Deborah Rodriguez has been working as a hairdresser since 1979. In 2002, Rodriguez helped found the Kabul Beauty School, the first modern beauty school and training salon in Afghanistan. Rodriguez is now director of the school and owner of the Oasis Salon and the Kabul Coffee House, all located in Kabul where she lives with her Afghan husband.

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[ckjune]

i love her book and she is as i imagined her to be as i read the book. Kudos to you my dear, you are a true hero for women..

[Anathoniel]

Some people are so nasty and selfish and that when they are confronted with anyone doing the least bit of good, they must demean what that person has done and reduce it to "self-interest".. I guess that is how they make feel themselves good about their own nasty selves.

[Ms4369]

@pollygong tottally agree wih u x

[Ms4369]

NO WAIT- I dont see how u can call her a hero when she nothing but ignorant: 0:35-0:44? wota hekkk? stupid freek sho?

[mooshmobile]

her voice sounds so much like Drew Barrymore!

What an incredible woman & an Incredible story. Amazing.

[EdithBreezy]

Im a 17 year old which chose to read Kabul Beauty School i have tho say i immediately fell attached to this book. I enjoyed reading this book and finished it in 3days! I felt the pain that came along with reading this book. I felt that many women out there should have a right to freedom and knowing that women in Kabul were living like this broke my heart. I love Kabul Beauty School.

[pollygong]

And for the record "moorejr1400" I don't know if you are male or female or what but just because women's heads are being covered doesn't mean that they don't want their hair to be well maintained or nicely cut for their own self confidence. A woman does not need a special fancy occasion to want to take care of herself and maintain her feminine delicate features and look good which makes her feel good about herself regardless of whether or not anyone else sees her. Open your mind a little.

[pollygong]

She also explains her very own personal lifestyle changes and trials faced being married to someone of a different cultural background. She reached out to the women that were discontented with their personal situations, not the ones that were happy and content with their lives. Stop being so ignorant. You are in essence contradicting yourself by trying to put this Ms. Rodriguez down and make it look like what she did was malicious which it quite obviously was not.

[pollygong]

This books tells the story of these women because they will never be able to tell it themselves. Western women can read this book and understand and learn from these women about real trials and tribulations, real hardships that they do not face in the Western world. It also teaches them about different depths of communication and reaching out to do something for humanity in your own way. The women who attended Kabul Beauty School did so because they WANTED to. No one forced them.

[pollygong]

I think you are terribly mistaken by the intentions of Deborah Rodriguez's and of her book.. I have recently read it and not once did she try to get these women to stop wearing the burqa or anything like that. What she did was provide a place where these women can speak freely and express their emotions and shed a tear freely. Hurt about losing loved ones, the struggles of arranged marriage and in some cases physical or mental abuse.

[moorejr1400]

good, you see it too she is a b*&^^ to put political correctness aside, she actually did worst than exploit those people, she came with an EMPERALISTIC mentality to practice a cultural norm of the west which is not port of their lives, and she calls this helping them? this "rodriguez" used these peoples ignorance, mislead them, lied to them, and they are worst then they were before meeting this woman, while this fool laughs her way to the bank!!! She will answer for that on the day of judgement

[afghanistanculture09]

You are the uneducated person which doesn't undrestand the situation. I totally know what I say. This lady left thoes people in danger by getting their personal stories and make a book out of it. Is it propper if someone gets your personal story and publish it?? By bublishing this book, what she has done for thoes people?? YOU PEOPLE ARE INVADORS & LIARS.. SHAME ON people LIKE YOU!