Mohammad Omar
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- Bangali : Toward Our Reformation
- Oromo
- Kazakh : Book-In-Brief : Toward Our Reformation
- Toward Our Reformation
- Books-In-Brief : Toward Our Reformation
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Afghan rebâb virtuoso Ustad Mohammad Omar, who was born sometime in the early 20th century, came to the United States in 1974 to Seattle’s University of Washington as an artist-in residence in the ethnomusicology department. On 18 November 1974, he gave his only U.S. concert, at the university’s Meany Hall. He was accompanied by 24-year-old Zakir Hussain, a budding Indian tabla player. Hussain went on to become a world-renowned tabla virtuoso. Ustad Mohammad Omar returned to Afghanistan after h
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Afghanistan
- Place of birth
- Baharak District
- Place of death
- Taloqan
- Occupation
- politician
- Political party
- Islamic Dawah Organisation of Afghanistan
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- Omar a few days before death-3-cropped.jpg
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- date of death
- 2010-10-08
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- Mohammad Omar
- date of birth
- 2000-01-01
- manner of death
- homicide
- cause of death
- explosive device
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