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Hate Crimes and Mother Tongues


Posted by Guest Contributor on 23 Nov 2015 / 0 Comments
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This post was written by Guest contributor Seema Shafei (@seemashafei). I’ll never forget the time a classmate turned to me and said that we couldn’t elect Obama because his middle name was Hussein. You never know, she told me. He could be just like Saddam. If a name could elicit this much fear, a language […]

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Review of Loving You Wasn’t Enough


Posted by anike on 02 Jun 2015 / 1 Comment
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  Warning for Spoilers!  Loving You Wasn’t Enough is a book about an unexpected love between two Muslim girls. I stumbled upon it randomly on Amazon and was immediately excited by the premise. It a book that claims to explore homosexuality from a Muslim perspective, and it tells a story that is not talked about […]

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Stability and Sustainability: Interview with Dr Hawa Abdi


Posted by syahirah on 18 Nov 2014 / 0 Comments
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It is a calm and cool afternoon in Nairobi, Kenya, when I catch up with Dr Hawa Abdi over Skype. After working hard in Mogadishu’s difficult circumstances with her two physician daughters Deqo and Amina Mohamed, she sometimes comes to Nairobi to rest and relax. Speaking over a passable internet connection, our conversation is peppered […]

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Books/Magazines

Breaking Down Stereotypes: Somali Women Always Agents of History


Posted by sharrae on 19 Jun 2013 / 0 Comments
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Recently, the Huffington Post re-published an Associated Press article on Sufi resurgence in Somalia. Following the withdrawal of the armed militant group Al-Shabab from the country’s capital of Mogadishu, Somalis are once again allowed to engage in Sufi practices without fear of death and violent repression. The article paints a landscape of men and women […]

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Culture/Society

The Women at the Forefront of Somalia’s Future


Posted by anike on 27 May 2013 / 0 Comments
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For more than 20 years there has been a continuous stream of bad news where Somalia is concerned with images of war, famine and piracy. Now with Al Shabaaab driven out of Mogadishu, and the Somali Transitional Government and African Union in control of the capital, Somalia seems to have joined the Africa Rising tide, […]

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“Islamically dressed” sex workers in a Christian nation


Posted by anike on 15 Jan 2013 / 0 Comments
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I was personally not aware that Malawi had a somewhat significant Muslim population when I read this report by Nyasa Times discussing the trend of sex workers wearing the hijab in certain cities in Malawi. This is because I was aware that Malawi identifies itself as a Christian nation “with no religious conflict”, with the […]

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Culture/Society

TEDxMogadishu: A Talk by Ilwad Elman


Posted by Krista Riley on 31 May 2012 / 0 Comments
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Last week, Samya covered the TEDxMogadishu talks for MMW.  As Samya wrote, “TEDx Mogadishu is not just a meeting of creative minds to gather and share their views on the welfare of the people in Somalia; it is also an opportunity for outsiders to change their perceptions about developments in that country, especially as they […]

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Culture/Society

TEDx Mogadishu and the Symbolic Rebirth of a Torn Society


Posted by samya on 24 May 2012 / 0 Comments
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During the past three decades, global perceptions of Somalia have for the most part been shaped by images of the country as a disaster area, ravaged by poverty and war. Somalia seems to appear in the news only in the context of humanitarian assistance appeals or of Al Qaeda-inspired militias carrying out their heinous acts […]

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