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Omar, Qais Akbar

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Personal name headingOmar, Qais Akbar
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Graduate of: Brandeis University http://rdaregistry.info/Elements/u/P60808
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Graduate of: Boston University http://rdaregistry.info/Elements/u/P60808
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Associated countryAfghanistan
United States
LocatedKabul (Afghanistan)
Birth date1982-11-18
Place of birthKabul (Afghanistan)
Field of activityJournalism
Creative writing
Human rights
AffiliationKābul Pohantūn
Boston University
Brandeis University
Harvard University
Aschiana Foundation
Initiative to Educate Afghan Women
Profession or occupationJournalists
Journalists
Authors
Writers
Found inShakespeare in Kabul, 2012: t.p. (Qais Akbar Omar) p.4 of flap (graduate of Kabul University's Faculty of Journalism, lives in Kabul whered he manages his family's carpet business and writes books)
Shakespeare en Kabul, 2015: title page (Qais Akbar Omar) page 2 of cover (Omar was born in 1982. He completed his bachelor's degree in journalism at Kabul University. In 2007, he was invited to the University of Colorado as a visiting scholar. In 2012, he moved to the US to study in the International Business School at Brandeis University. In 2014, he graduated from Boston University with a MFA in Creative Writing. In 2014-15, he was a Scholars at Risk Fellow at Harvard University. Omar serves as a goodwill ambassador for Aschiana Foundation in Kabul and for the Initiative to Educate Afghan Women)
Wikipedia, January 14, 2025 (Qais Akbar Omar (born November 18, 1982) is an Afghan-American writer; born in Kabul; owner of Kabul Carpets, a business that his family has operated for four generations; bachelor's degree in journalism from Kabul University; moved to the United States in 2012; Master of Business Administration from Brandeis University; in 2014, he graduated from Boston University with a MFA in Creative Writing; has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, and The Cairo Review of Global Affairs)
Associated languageeng