Qais Akbar Omar
Qais Akbar Omar is the author of the memoir, A
Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story and co-author of Shakespeare
in Kabul. In 2007, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado,
researching eco-sensitive methods of carpet production, and he has lectured on
Afghan carpets in Afghanistan, Europe, and the United States. He is a 2014–15
Scholars at Risk fellow at Harvard University.
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