Qais Akbar Omar appears in the following:
A Shakespearean Comedy in Kabul
Friday, July 16, 2021
Staging Shakespeare's Love's Labors Lost in Kabul as a celebration of hope and a form of therapy.
Tragedy for 35 Years: Shakespearean Comedy in Kabul
Friday, December 30, 2016
Staging Shakespeare's Love's Labors Lost in Kabul as a celebration of hope and a form of therapy.
"We've Lived Tragedy for 35 Years": Performing a Shakespearean Comedy in Kabul
Friday, April 22, 2016
The staging of Shakespeare's comedy Love's Labors Lost in Kabul as a celebration of hope and a form of therapy.
Qais Akbar Omar on Growing Up in Kabul
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Qais Akbar Omar talks about growing up in Kabul, Afghanistan, in his memoir A Fort of Nine Towers , which reveals the richness and suffering of life in that country. When he was a child, Kabul was a city of gardens where he flew kites while his family drank tea, it was a time of telling stories, reciting poetry, selling carpets. Then civil war exploded, and his family fled, taking shelter in an old fort. As the Mujahedin war devolved into Taliban rule, Omar learned about quiet resistance, and opened a secret carpet factory to provide work for neighborhood girls.