KABUL – Afghan women are reacting with panic and dismay as a Taliban ban on beauty salons looms in the capital Kabul. It is the latest of dozens of edicts curbing women and girls from public life.

KABUL – Afghan women are reacting with panic and dismay as a Taliban ban on beauty salons looms in the capital Kabul. It is the latest of dozens of edicts curbing women and girls from public life.

Kabul Beauty School opens a window onto the private lives of Afghan women, whose beauty secrets and hidden histories are both revealed in the course of the book. The second formula at work in ...

KABUL – Afghan women are reacting with panic and dismay as a Taliban ban on beauty salons looms in the capital Kabul. It is the latest of dozens of edicts curbing women and girls from public life.

The Beauty Academy of Kabul By Yingquiqi C. Lei , Contributing Writer Directed by Liz Mermin Shadow Distribution Inc. 4 stars Perhaps the last thing post-Taliban Afghanistan needs is a beauty school.

“The Kabul Beauty School” was more about other people’s lives. Whereas this book was far more personal and I had to dig deeper. It was harder because it involved a lot of self-discovery ...

The Taliban has ordered all beauty shops in Kabul to close by the end of July. These businesses are one of the last places where women can work and congregate as restrictions on women are mounting..

A Taliban edict issued this month will shutter some 3,000 women-run salons in Kabul. Above: A young woman visits a a beauty salon in Kabul to prepare for a wedding party.