Qais Akbar Omar: 4 books

One of the rare memoirs of Afghanistan to have been written by an Afghan, A Fort of Nine Towers reveals the richness and suffering of life in a country whose history has become deeply entwined with our own. For the young Qais Akbar Omar, Kabul was a city of gardens where he flew kites from...

" Lire ce témoignage, c'est comprendre l'Afghanistan tel qu'il existe aujourd'hui. " Khaled Hosseini, auteur des Cerfs-volants de Kaboul Afghanistan, début des années 1990. Le jeune Qais Akbar Omar, neuf ans, vit avec sa nombreuse famille, frère, soeurs, grand-père, oncles, tantes,...

In 2005, a group of actors in Kabul performed Shakespeare's Love’s Labour's Lost to the cheers of Afghan audiences and the raves of foreign journalists. For the first time in years, men and women had appeared onstage together. The future held no limits, the actors believed. In this fast-moving,...

In 2005, everything seemed possible in Afghanistan. The Taliban was gone. A new government had been elected. A cultural renaissance was energizing the country.An actress visiting from Paris casually proposed to some Afghan actors in Kabul: Why not put on a play? The challenges were huge. It had been...