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The Underground Girls of Kabul

In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan

by Jenny Nordberg

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The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg

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    Sep 2014, 288 pages

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    Jul 2015, 288 pages

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