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Qais Akbar Omar
Qais Akbar Omar manages his family’s carpet business in Kabul and writes books. In 2007, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado. He has studied business at Brandeis University and is currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing at Boston University. Omar has lectured on Afghan carpets in Afghanistan, Europe, and the United States. He is the author of A Fort of Nine Towers and coauthor, with Stephen Landrigan, of Shakespeare in Kabul.
 
 
books by Qais Akbar Omar