Books

  1. Drakey

    Drakey edited the characters of Kabul Beauty School Sunday, June 24, 2012.

    • Edited the description of Zilgai: Afghanie who ran a guest house
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  2. Drakey

    Drakey edited the characters of Kabul Beauty School Sunday, June 24, 2012.

    • Edited the description of Osama: Terrorist that hid in Afghanistan
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  3. Drakey

    Drakey edited the characters of Kabul Beauty School Sunday, June 24, 2012.

    • Edited the description of Karzai: Afghanistan's president
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  4. Dianne

    Dianne edited the characters of Kabul Beauty School Thursday, January 26, 2012.

    • Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/ImportantImportant People
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  5. Rhylast

    Rhylast edited the characters of Kabul Beauty School Tuesday, January 10, 2012.

    • Edited the description of Shaz: A lady who came with one of the beauty school locations. SheShaz was employed to clean the school. She was fired several times.is considered low caste and is ostracized by the other women.
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  6. sherry sinche

    sherry sinche edited the characters of Kabul Beauty School Monday, November 21, 2011.

    • Edited the description of Ali: Book club
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  7. Jennifer R

    Jennifer R edited the characters of Kabul Beauty School Monday, September 6, 2010.

    • Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
    • Edited a character: PapaSam: Also called Papa Sam by the author. He is Debbie Rodriguez's husband (a second husband). He has his own business. He has a first wife who lives with his family in Saudi Arabia. She has borne him children. He lived with Debbie in Afghanistan and helped her with logistics for her beauty school
    • Edited the spoiler-free description of PapaSam: Also called Papa Sam by the author. He is Debbie Rodriguez's husband. He is a business owner and also helps Debbie with some of the logistics for her beauty school.
    • marked the description of PapaSam as a spoiler
    • Edited the description of Roshanna: One of Debbie first friends in Afghanistan. She speaks both English and Dari. She was briefly married to a cousin who lives outside of Afghanistan. He divorced her. She gets married during the course of the memoir, giving Debbie a chance to discuss the Afghan marriage customs. There is some question as to whether he new husband mistreated her also. Her first communication to her family after her marriage indicated that her husband's mother had misrepresented him as an engineer when he was merely a clerk and that the family was keeping her in a kind of indentured servitude. Shortly after that she called again to say it had been a test by her husband's family to see if she really loved him. She was not heard from again.
    • Edited the spoiler-free description of Roshanna: One of Debbie's first friends in Afghanistan. She speaks both English and Dari.
    • marked the description of Roshanna as a spoiler
    • Edited the description of Mina: A distant cousin of Debbie's husband Sam who is admitted to one of the beauty school classes and promised a job at the school after graduation if she is one of the top students of that class.
    • Edited the description of Shaz: A lady who came with one of the beauty school locations. She was employed to clean the school. She was fired several times.
    • Edited a character: Miss DebbieDebbie Rodriguez: Also called Miss Debbie. She is an American hairdresser who decided that she wanted to make a difference in the lives of Afghan women. She organized donations and paired with other agencies to start a beauty school in Kabul that trains native women to have a trade so they can make money for themselves and not be as dependent on their husbands.
    • Edited the description of Robina: She is the daughter of progressive parents. She was raised outside of Afghanistan but returned with her two sisters when the country where her family had taken refuge became more hostile to Afghanis. She was trained as a hairdresser prior to returning and came to the Kabul Beauty School for a job. Debbie felt her looks and style would allow her to relate well to the Salon's western clientele
    • Edited the description of Maryam: A cook at the Kabul Beauty School
    • Edited the description of Baseera: One of the early students of the Kabul Beauty School who has returned to teach and work there.
    • Edited the description of Laila: She speaks both Dari and English and often translates for Debbie.
    • Edited the description of Bahar: One of the early students of the Kabul Beauty School. She returned to teach others and to work at the school.
    • Edited the description of Daud: A driver for Debbie on her first visit to Afghanistan
    • Edited the description of Val: One of Debbie's friends--instrumental in her marrying Sam.
    • Edited the description of Farooq: The reason Shaz was finally dismissed for good. He used Shaz's love for him to get her to deliver phone numbers for the other girls in the beauty school and even tried to abduct Maryam, the cook.
    • Edited the description of Suraya: One of Debbie's friends--instrumental in her marrying Sam.
    • Edited the description of Zach: One of Debbie's sons from her first marriage. He visited her in Afghanistan.
    • Edited the description of Achmed Zia: One of the chowkidor's employed by the Kabul Beauty School.
    • Edited the description of Topekai: One of the students in the first class at the Kabul Beauty School. She was the first to understand the hair-coloring concepts and helped Debbie explain them to other students in a language they would understand. She worked at the Kabul Beauty School as a teacher.
    • Edited the description of Dostum: A General who is a friend of Sam's
    • Edited the description of Noor: Was the person on site to keep the Kabul Beauty School running during its early incarnation.
    • Edited the description of Mary Macmakin: A westerner who was already in Afghanistan at the time Debbie Rodriguez was attempting to start her beauty school. Debbie donated many of the items that had been donated to her to Mary's work and Mary helped her with contacts in Afghanistan.
    • Edited the description of Paul Mitchell: Also known as John Paul DeJoria. The company was among the first to donate products to the beauty school.
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  8. Shelfari

    Shelfari edited the characters of Kabul Beauty School Tuesday, March 30, 2010.

    • Added a character: Papa Sam
    • Added a character: Roshanna
    • Added a character: Mina
    • Added a character: Shaz
    • Added a character: Ali
    • Added a character: Miss Debbie
    • Added a character: Robina
    • Added a character: Maryam
    • Added a character: Baseera
    • Added a character: Nahida
    • Added a character: Laila
    • Added a character: Bahar
    • Added a character: Daud
    • Added a character: Val
    • Added a character: Farooq
    • Added a character: Suraya
    • Added a character: Chris
    • Added a character: Bcau
    • Added a character: Zach
    • Added a character: Achmed Zia
    • Added a character: Topekai
    • Added a character: Allen
    • Added a character: Dostum
    • Added a character: Noor
    • Added a character: Mary Macmakin
    • Added a character: Karzai
    • Added a character: Osama
    • Added a character: Paul Mitchell
    • Added a character: Zilgai
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