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Jenny Nordberg
Jenny Nordberg is a New York-based foreign correspondent and a columnist for Swedish national newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.In 2010, she broke the story of "bacha posh" - how girls grow up disguised as boys in gender-segregated Afghanistan. The front page story was published in The New York Times... show more

Jenny Nordberg is a New York-based foreign correspondent and a columnist for Swedish national newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.In 2010, she broke the story of "bacha posh" - how girls grow up disguised as boys in gender-segregated Afghanistan. The front page story was published in The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune, and Nordberg's original research was used for opinion pieces around the world and inspired several works of fiction. Her latest project, The Underground Girls of Kabul, to be published in ten countries in late 2014, reveals entirely new and previously unknown aspects of the practice and goes deep into the gender segregation and resistance among women in Afghanistan. Five years in the making, this cross-border investigation is described by Publisher's Weekly as "one of the most convincing portraits of Afghan culture in print." She is also developing bachaposh.com as an online resource for girls who have grown up as boys due to segregation. Together with The Times' investigative unit, Nordberg previously worked on projects such as an examination of the American freight railroad system; a series that won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, and U.S. efforts at exporting democracy to Haiti. She has also produced and written several documentaries for American television, about Iraqi refugees, Pakistan's nuclear proliferation and the impact of the global financial crisis in Europe.In Sweden, Nordberg was a member of the first investigative team at Swedish Broadcasting's national radio division, where she supervised projects on terrorism and politics. Nordberg has won awards from Investigative Reporters and Editors, The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights and Föreningen Grävande Journalister.Jenny Nordberg holds a B.A. in Law and Journalism from Stockholm University, and an M.A. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
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Dem
Dem rated it 8 years ago
An amazing book club discussion book that had our group deep in discussion for 2 hours in which all the members contributed to one of the most passionate discussions our group has ever held.I kept thinking as we all sat around the table discussing Afghan culture and Western culture. What if 12 Afgh...
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Reading Jenny Nordberg’s The Underground Girls of Kabul was a lot like reading Sophie’s Choice or Uncle Tom’s Cabin. There’s not a lot of similarity between the three books, content- or style-wise. Sophie’s Choice and Uncle Tom’s Cabin are fiction; The Underground Girls of Kabul is based on the auth...
DubaiReader
DubaiReader rated it 10 years ago
This is a hugely interesting subject, particularly given that the girls dressed as boys were in Afghanistan, where the segregation between men and women is so extreme. How then, is it possible for girls to pretend to be boys for many years, enjoying the same freedoms that boys enjoy? How is it that ...
Kate Says: "Reading Is Fun!"
Kate Says: "Reading Is Fun!" rated it 10 years ago
This book was written by Jenny Nordberg and was an excellent piece of investigative journalism because the book was based on her actual interviews with women who lived part of their lives as boys, in Afghanistan. Gender roles and how they vary around the world has always been an interesting topic ...
Merle
Merle rated it 10 years ago
Like many New York Times readers, I read Nordberg’s first article on girls disguised as boys in Afghanistan and was fascinated. It’s a topic that deserved a book, and fortunately Nordberg went deeper and wrote one. This book relates many stories of girls disguised as boys, and women disguised as m...
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