Omaid Sharifi

Co-founder of ArtLords (artlords.co), a Kabul-based organisation promoting public art for social transformation, started in 2014.

'Pessimism is a luxury. For people living in Afghanistan, that is never an option': an Afghan art organisation on life under the Taliban

In our series "Dispatches from Afghanistan", we speak to artists and cultural workers about their experiences since the rise of the Taliban