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Qais Akbar Omar

Qais Akbar Omar
Qais Akbar Omar is the author of A Fort of Nine Towers (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013), which has been published in more than twenty languages, and the co-author of A Night in the Emperor’s Garden (Haus Publishing, 2015). He has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Sunday Times in London, and The Globe and Mail in Canada, and published short stories in The Southern Review and elsewhere. In 2014–15 Omar was a Scholars at Risk Fellow at Harvard University.


Boxing Through Trauma During the Afghan Civil War

“The doctor said I had seen too many bad things”
May 11, 2017  By Qais Akbar Omar
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