From the House

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Essays, translations, and field notes on Afghan philosophy, poetry, and rasm & rawaj — the long work of remembering, written down.

We Have Come Home to Balboa Park
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We Have Come Home to Balboa Park

This morning, in the same Balboa Park where my family stood in 1981, the House of Afghanistan was voted in.

Omed HabibFebruary 1, 2026
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