Founder of the House of Afghanistan and keeper of the keystone of the Canon — the line from Rumi that opens this work: “Listen to the reed.”
Omed founded the house to answer a question that followed him from childhood — what becomes of an inheritance that is loved but never written down? Born of the Afghan diaspora, he turned that question into an institution: a place to gather, verify, distill, and openly share the philosophical, intellectual, and cultural heritage of the Afghan people. He writes here on poetry, philosophy, and the long work of remembering.
