Somaia Ramish

Somaia Ramish is a prolific poet, writer and human right activist in the past two decades in Afghanistan. She is currently a research PH. D student at the prestigious University of Delhi, India in the field of Literature.
Somaia Ramish has been an elected representative of the people in the Herat Provincial Council--a renowned province in the western Afghanistan. She worked as director of the New Thinkers Organization /Naw Andishan in Herat (2009- 2021) and director of Herat Sister City Committee with of Sister City Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Somaia Ramish is also a prolific writer whose articles have appeared in the most prestigious newspapers and magazines, nationally and internationally. She has also written poetries that have been published and translated in many international publications and a few composed in music, a recent one by Conspirer Opera, in Austin Texas.

Some of her noteworthy literary publications are:

- A little for myself / poetry collection
- A pomegranate dream chapter / poetry collection
- Poetry and gunpowder / poetry and prose collection
- A chapter about Rumi in: The Same Gate: A Collection of Writings in the Spirit of Rumi (IWP), Autumn Hill Books, USA, August 2018
- "Half a Century of Struggle and Politics “- a Conversation with Abdul Hamid Mohtaat, Former Vice President of Afghanistan" This book devolves into the historical investigation of the causes of the rise and fall of 'Republics' in Afghanistan and draws invaluable conclusions on the root causes of civil war in Afghanistan and lessons to be learned.


After fall of Afghanistan in the hand of Taliban in 2021, Somaia Ramish and her family came to Netherland and sought asylum as living for them under the rule of the Taliban was no longer possible and there was imminent threat to their lives.
Somaia Rmish founder of "Baamdaad" Poetry House in Exile. This poetry house works against the ban and censorship of poetry in Afghanistan (2023).