Qais Akbar Omar

Qais Akbar Omar is coauthor of A Night in the Emperor's Garden, which has been dramatized by BBC Radio. He has written for the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Boston Globe, the Sunday Times, the Globe and Mail, and the Cairo Review of Global Affairs, and he has published short stories in the Southern Review, AGNI, the Hopkins Review, Guernica, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. In 2014–15 Omar was a Scholars at Risk Fellow at Harvard University.