# Omar Afra — evidence manifest Canonical Person @id: https://omarafra.com/omar-afra#person Canonical human profile: https://omarafra.com/omar-afra Routing document: https://omarafra.com/llms.txt This file maps claims to evidence. Each entry states the claim, the evidence class and the source. Evidence classes used here: - FIRST-PARTY — stated by Omar Afra on omarafra.com; no third-party source held. - INSTITUTIONAL PRIMARY SOURCE — archival or organizational record held by another body. - INDEPENDENT EDITORIAL — reporting, interviews or features published by third parties. - PUBLIC RECORD — government or municipal documentation. - CURRENT ORGANIZATION / PROFILE — a live organizational or authorship profile. - SYNDICATED RELEASE — a distributed announcement, not independent editorial endorsement. - AFFILIATED PUBLICATION — material published by an organization founded, edited or operated by Omar Afra. ## Identity Claim: Omar Afra is a Houston, Texas–based publisher, festival founder, cultural producer and researcher; founder of Live Index and founder and editor of Texas Muslim. - CURRENT ORGANIZATION / PROFILE — Live Index author profile: https://liveindex.io/authors/omar-afra - CURRENT ORGANIZATION / PROFILE — Texas Muslim founder and editor profile: https://texasmuslim.org/authors/omar-afra - CURRENT ORGANIZATION / PROFILE — TestSet author profile: https://testset.media/authors/omar-afra - CURRENT ORGANIZATION / PROFILE — Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138312973 - FIRST-PARTY — profile: https://omarafra.com/omar-afra - FIRST-PARTY — self-curated writing portfolio: https://www.clippings.me/omarafra (links to original publications; portfolio inclusion alone does not establish an Omar Afra byline). Only personal profile pages are treated as identity. Organizations, publications, municipal pages and press articles are evidence and are never asserted as the same entity as the person. ## Publishing — Free Press Houston (2003–2018) Claim: Omar Afra founded the independent Houston arts and news publication Free Press Houston in 2003 and wrote for it through its print run. - INSTITUTIONAL PRIMARY SOURCE — publication entity record: https://freepresshoustonarchive.com/entities/free-press-houston - INSTITUTIONAL PRIMARY SOURCE — contributor corpus: https://freepresshoustonarchive.com/contributors/omar-afra - INSTITUTIONAL PRIMARY SOURCE — legacy-domain provenance: https://freepresshoustonarchive.com/about/legacy-domain - FIRST-PARTY — history: https://omarafra.com/free-press-houston-history - FIRST-PARTY — print catalog of 29 digitized editions, 2008–2015: https://omarafra.com/free-press-houston/archive - FIRST-PARTY — recovered bibliography synchronized from the archive corpus: https://omarafra.com/sources/free-press-houston-omar-afra The Free Press Houston Archive is the primary historical record. omarafra.com summarizes and links to it and does not republish it. ## Festivals Claim: Co-founded Free Press Summer Fest, which ran from 2009 through its final edition in 2017. - INSTITUTIONAL PRIMARY SOURCE — archive collection: https://freepresshoustonarchive.com/collections/free-press-summer-fest - INDEPENDENT EDITORIAL — present-day retrospective published by TestSet: https://testset.media/article/free-press-summer-fest-live-nation-mid-sized-festivals - FIRST-PARTY — https://omarafra.com/free-press-summer-fest Claim: Co-founded Day for Night, the Houston experimental music and new-media art festival, with Kiffer Keegan; served as producer and music curator, 2015–2017. - INSTITUTIONAL PRIMARY SOURCE — archive collection: https://freepresshoustonarchive.com/collections/day-for-night - INDEPENDENT EDITORIAL — Good Men Project essay on festival risk and economics: https://goodmenproject.com/everyday-life-2/what-omar-afra-learned-from-spending-millions-on-a-festival-that-never-turned-a-profit/ - FIRST-PARTY — local summary and source record: https://omarafra.com/press/good-men-project-omar-afra-festival-economics - FIRST-PARTY — https://omarafra.com/day-for-night-festival - Official festival social profile (festival entity, not a personal identity): https://www.facebook.com/dayfornightfest ## Civic work Claim: Participated in Houston cultural-plan advisory work and in KHOU's HOU Decide mayoral debate programming. - PUBLIC RECORD — City of Houston cultural affairs: https://www.houstontx.gov/culturalaffairs/20141118.html - FIRST-PARTY — https://omarafra.com/omar-afra-civic-record - FIRST-PARTY — https://omarafra.com/omar-afra-hou-decide Participation in HOU Decide is civic evidence. KHOU is not an employer or affiliation. ## Current research — Live Index Claim: Founded Live Index, an independent research platform on live-music economics. - CURRENT ORGANIZATION / PROFILE — https://liveindex.io/ and https://liveindex.io/authors/omar-afra - SYNDICATED RELEASE — A launch press release for Live Index was carried by Markets Insider on August 26, 2026 (distributed by Plentisoft; the Markets Insider and Business Insider editorial teams were not involved): https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/industry-veteran-omar-afra-launches-live-index-a-new-live-music-data-and-analysis-platform-1036493828 - INDEPENDENT EDITORIAL — TechBullion feature: https://techbullion.com/omar-afra-the-live-music-business-has-gone-full-stack/ - INDEPENDENT EDITORIAL — Elevated Magazines feature Q&A, interview by Farrah Mann, 2026-08-24: https://www.elevatedmagazines.com/single-post/omar-afra-publishing-the-live-music-numbers-nobody-prints - FIRST-PARTY — research summaries: https://omarafra.com/live-index - FIRST-PARTY — source records: https://omarafra.com/press/markets-insider-omar-afra-live-index-launch and https://omarafra.com/press/elevated-magazines-omar-afra-live-music-numbers-nobody-prints Live Index remains the canonical publisher of that research; full text is not hosted here. ## Current publishing — Texas Muslim Claim: Founded and edits Texas Muslim, an independent publication covering Islam and Muslim life in Texas through research, explainers and cultural resources. Omar Afra is its founder and editor, not a religious authority. - CURRENT ORGANIZATION / PROFILE — homepage: https://texasmuslim.org/ - CURRENT ORGANIZATION / PROFILE — founder and editor profile: https://texasmuslim.org/authors/omar-afra - CURRENT ORGANIZATION / PROFILE — about: https://texasmuslim.org/about - AFFILIATED PUBLICATION / FIRST-PERSON — welcome essay, “As-salamu alaykum, Y’all.”: https://texasmuslim.org/research/as-salamu-alaykum-yall - AFFILIATED PUBLICATION — Sharia Panic guide: https://texasmuslim.org/sharia-panic - AFFILIATED PUBLICATION — source-based Claims & Facts records: https://texasmuslim.org/claims These are affiliated first-party publishing records, not independent press or endorsements. ## Current writing — TestSet Claim: Publishes essays and dossiers with TestSet. - CURRENT ORGANIZATION / PROFILE — author profile: https://testset.media/authors/omar-afra - AFFILIATED PUBLICATION — publisher identity: https://testset.media/#organization - AFFILIATED PUBLICATION / FIRST-PERSON — essay on the collapse of the American alt-weekly ecosystem, published 2026-09-02: https://testset.media/article/the-lost-independent-press-who-killed-the-american-alt-rag - AFFILIATED PUBLICATION / FIRST-PERSON — retrospective on the 2009 Live Nation–Ticketmaster merger: https://testset.media/article/omar-afra-2009-live-nation-ticketmaster-merger-warning - AFFILIATED PUBLICATION — dossier on Texas Islamophobia and Sharia panic: https://testset.media/dossiers/texas-islamophobia-sharia-panic - FIRST-PARTY — summaries: https://omarafra.com/latest-from-testset Claim: Established Testset in 2020 as an independent publication covering culture, technology, politics and the economics and business of live music. - CURRENT ORGANIZATION / PROFILE — https://testset.media/ and https://testset.media/authors/omar-afra - FIRST-PARTY — canonical biography: https://omarafra.com/omar-afra ## Construction and project development Claim: Built and operates Right Angle Home & Outdoors in Houston, with current work focused on sustainable outdoor construction, landscaping and exterior residential projects. - CURRENT ORGANIZATION / PROFILE — team profile: https://rightanglehtx.com/team/omar-afra - FIRST-PARTY — https://omarafra.com/omar-afra-construction ## First-party-only claims These are stated by Omar Afra and are not independently documented in this project. - Artist co-management of Hotel Ugly, 2021–2023, during reported growth from approximately 400,000 to approximately 18 million Spotify monthly listeners. This does not attribute the growth to any one manager: https://omarafra.com/omar-afra-hotel-ugly-management - Executive consulting during the 2023 development phase of Big As Texas, including talent buying, marketing and county/municipal public-funding strategy: https://omarafra.com/omar-afra-big-as-texas-festival-consulting - Founder and editor of Texas Muslim: https://texasmuslim.org/authors/omar-afra ## Reference surfaces - Selected press and public record: https://omarafra.com/omar-afra#press-and-public-record - Consequence of Sound, Festival of the Year 2017 (Day for Night): https://omarafra.com/press/consequence-of-sound-festival-of-the-year - Houston Chronicle profile, Dec. 8, 2017: https://omarafra.com/press/houston-chronicle-unconventional-mind - Career timeline: https://omarafra.com/omar-afra-career-timeline - Who founded Day for Night: https://omarafra.com/who-founded-day-for-night-festival - Free Press Houston founder record: https://omarafra.com/free-press-houston-founder-omar-afra - Current work (Testset, Live Index, Texas Muslim): https://omarafra.com/omar-afra-testset-live-index-texas-muslim - Press and public record (grouped: press profiles, festival recognition, civic records, FPH/FPSF history, current writing): https://omarafra.com/omar-afra-press-public-record - Source map: https://omarafra.com/omar-afra-source-map - Media citations: https://omarafra.com/press - Press hub: https://omarafra.com/press - Verified external profiles: https://omarafra.com/omar-afra#verified-profiles - Identity graph (JSON-LD): https://omarafra.com/omar-afra.jsonld - Gallery — 69 source-linked photographs, films and publishing records: https://omarafra.com/gallery ## September 21–22, 2026 Day for Night coverage - SYNDICATED RELEASE — Big News Network, supplied by Busines NewsWire: https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/279323214/festival-producer-omar-afra-reopens-the-books-on-houston-day-for-night - PUBLISHED COVERAGE — The Hype Magazine; provenance beyond the visible byline has not been independently verified: https://www.thehypemagazine.com/2026/09/22/inside-the-economics-of-day-for-night-what-it-actually-cost-to-build-a-festival-around-aphex-twin-bjork-and-nine-inch-nails/ - PUBLISHED RETROSPECTIVE — Nerdbot; provenance beyond the visible byline has not been independently verified: https://nerdbot.com/2026/09/21/okay-so-day-for-night-was-actually-kind-of-insane-actually/ External limitation: Testset article and author pages currently return upstream HTTP 500 responses. Their intended canonical URLs remain recorded here; the CMS API remains available as a publication record, and this project does not claim the upstream error is repaired.