DIIHAAL-REEB

DIIHAAL-REEB

Author: Khaalid Jaamac Qodax

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1105515443

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This is a fictional story about a street boy named Sahardiid who is an orphan and ends up on the streets of Hargeisa at a young age. Life on the streets of Hargeisa is not easy and certainly not as a young child, where he is confronted with issues such as drug abuse, begging, lack of food, bad weather, and dirty clothing. Eventually, Sahardiid ends up in a rehabilitation centre, but life there is no better than on the streets. After leaving this centre, Sahardiid receives help from the community and eventually grows up to be a well-educated and successful man. The book raises awareness about the reality of life for many children in Hargeisa and its surroundings today. [ASC Leiden abstract].


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Download or read book DIIHAAL-REEB written by Khaalid Jaamac Qodax and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fictional story about a street boy named Sahardiid who is an orphan and ends up on the streets of Hargeisa at a young age. Life on the streets of Hargeisa is not easy and certainly not as a young child, where he is confronted with issues such as drug abuse, begging, lack of food, bad weather, and dirty clothing. Eventually, Sahardiid ends up in a rehabilitation centre, but life there is no better than on the streets. After leaving this centre, Sahardiid receives help from the community and eventually grows up to be a well-educated and successful man. The book raises awareness about the reality of life for many children in Hargeisa and its surroundings today. [ASC Leiden abstract].

Maxamed Ibraahin Warsame "Hadraawi"

Maxamed Ibraahin Warsame

Author: Maxamed Ibraahim Warsama

Publisher: Poetry Translation Centre

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788888934365

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Download or read book Maxamed Ibraahin Warsame "Hadraawi" written by Maxamed Ibraahim Warsama and published by Poetry Translation Centre. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From a Crooked Rib

From a Crooked Rib

Author: Nuruddin Farah

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2006-06-27

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780143037262

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Written with complete conviction from a woman's point of view, Nuruddin Farah's spare, shocking first novel savagely attacks the traditional values of his people yet is also a haunting celebration of the unbroken human spirit. Ebla, an orphan of eighteen, runs away from her nomadic encampment in rural Somalia when she discovers that her grandfather has promised her in marriage to an older man. But even after her escape to Mogadishu, she finds herself as powerless and dependent on men as she was out in the bush. As she is propelled through servitude, marriage, poverty, and violence, Ebla has to fight to retain her identity in a world where women are "sold like cattle."


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Download or read book From a Crooked Rib written by Nuruddin Farah and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with complete conviction from a woman's point of view, Nuruddin Farah's spare, shocking first novel savagely attacks the traditional values of his people yet is also a haunting celebration of the unbroken human spirit. Ebla, an orphan of eighteen, runs away from her nomadic encampment in rural Somalia when she discovers that her grandfather has promised her in marriage to an older man. But even after her escape to Mogadishu, she finds herself as powerless and dependent on men as she was out in the bush. As she is propelled through servitude, marriage, poverty, and violence, Ebla has to fight to retain her identity in a world where women are "sold like cattle."

Crossbones

Crossbones

Author: Nuruddin Farah

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2011-09-01

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 1101552107

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A gripping new novel from today's "most important African novelist". (The New York Times Review of Books), the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old friends. He is accompanied by his son-in-law, Malik, a journalist intent on covering the region's ongoing turmoil. What greets them at first is not the chaos Jeebleh remembers, however, but an eerie calm enforced by ubiquitous white-robed figures bearing whips. Meanwhile, Malik's brother, Ahl, has arrived in Puntland, the region notorious as a pirates' base. Ahl is searching for his stepson, Taxliil, who has vanished from Minneapolis, apparently recruited by an imam allied to Somalia's rising religious insurgency. The brothers' efforts draw them closer to Taxliil and deeper into the fabric of the country, even as Somalis brace themselves for an Ethiopian invasion. Jeebleh leaves Mogadiscio only a few hours before the borders are breached and raids descend from land and sea. As the uneasy quiet shatters and the city turns into a battle zone, the brothers experience firsthand the derailments of war. Completing the trilogy that began with Links and Knots, Crossbones is a fascinating look at individuals caught in the maw of zealotry, profiteering, and political conflict, by one of our most highly acclaimed international writers.


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Download or read book Crossbones written by Nuruddin Farah and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping new novel from today's "most important African novelist". (The New York Times Review of Books), the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old friends. He is accompanied by his son-in-law, Malik, a journalist intent on covering the region's ongoing turmoil. What greets them at first is not the chaos Jeebleh remembers, however, but an eerie calm enforced by ubiquitous white-robed figures bearing whips. Meanwhile, Malik's brother, Ahl, has arrived in Puntland, the region notorious as a pirates' base. Ahl is searching for his stepson, Taxliil, who has vanished from Minneapolis, apparently recruited by an imam allied to Somalia's rising religious insurgency. The brothers' efforts draw them closer to Taxliil and deeper into the fabric of the country, even as Somalis brace themselves for an Ethiopian invasion. Jeebleh leaves Mogadiscio only a few hours before the borders are breached and raids descend from land and sea. As the uneasy quiet shatters and the city turns into a battle zone, the brothers experience firsthand the derailments of war. Completing the trilogy that began with Links and Knots, Crossbones is a fascinating look at individuals caught in the maw of zealotry, profiteering, and political conflict, by one of our most highly acclaimed international writers.

Somali Poetry

Somali Poetry

Author: B. W. Andrzejewski

Publisher:

Published: 1964

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Download or read book Somali Poetry written by B. W. Andrzejewski and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Knots

Knots

Author: Nuruddin Farah

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2007-02-01

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 1101202025

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From the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn comes "a beautiful, hopeful novel about one woman's return to war-ravaged Mogadishu" (Time) Called "one of the most sophisticated voices in modern fiction" (The New York Review of Books), Nuruddin Farah is widely recognized as a literary genius. He proves it yet again with Knots, the story of a woman who returns to her roots and discovers much more than herself. Born in Somalia but raised in North America, Cambara flees a failed marriage by traveling to Mogadishu. And there, amid the devastation and brutality, she finds that her most unlikely ambitions begin to seem possible. Conjuring the unforgettable extremes of a fractured Muslim culture and the wayward Somali state through the eyes of a strong, compelling heroine, Knots is another Farah masterwork.


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Download or read book Knots written by Nuruddin Farah and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn comes "a beautiful, hopeful novel about one woman's return to war-ravaged Mogadishu" (Time) Called "one of the most sophisticated voices in modern fiction" (The New York Review of Books), Nuruddin Farah is widely recognized as a literary genius. He proves it yet again with Knots, the story of a woman who returns to her roots and discovers much more than herself. Born in Somalia but raised in North America, Cambara flees a failed marriage by traveling to Mogadishu. And there, amid the devastation and brutality, she finds that her most unlikely ambitions begin to seem possible. Conjuring the unforgettable extremes of a fractured Muslim culture and the wayward Somali state through the eyes of a strong, compelling heroine, Knots is another Farah masterwork.

Offspring of Paradise

Offspring of Paradise

Author: Safi Abdi

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1410794091

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Download or read book Offspring of Paradise written by Safi Abdi and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Somalia - The Untold Story

Somalia - The Untold Story

Author: Judith Gardner

Publisher: CIIR

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780745322087

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Explores the experiences of women in Somalia and how they have survived the trauma of war.


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Download or read book Somalia - The Untold Story written by Judith Gardner and published by CIIR. This book was released on 2004 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the experiences of women in Somalia and how they have survived the trauma of war.

Bulshoy Ma Is Baran Lahayn

Bulshoy Ma Is Baran Lahayn

Author: W. N. Herbert

Publisher: Ponte Invisible (Redsea Cultural Foundation)

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788888934631

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So At One With You is a groundbreaking anthology of the last fifty years of Somali poetry, and marks ten years of collaboration between Kayd Somali Arts and Culture and the Poetry Translation Centre. The anthology celebrates the primary medium for public debate in this 'nation of poets', where audiences in their hundreds gather to listen to an intricate, virtuosic artform that speaks directly to them about the great issues of their time. As the title - taken from the work of Maxamed Ibraahin Warsame "Hadraawi" - suggests, in Somali literature the poet is utterly at one with their listener sharing values and aesthetics in an intimate manner that offers food for thought to English-speaking writers, readers, and critics. The present selection brings together eighteen key poets from across the generations, and combines tender love poetry and pastoral idyll with scathing attacks on corruption and hypocrisy, as well as social satire on life in the cities of the Horn of Africa and across the globe. This is a world poetry, both in its imaginative reach and in its ability to speak to the debates we all face in a time of global crisis.


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Download or read book Bulshoy Ma Is Baran Lahayn written by W. N. Herbert and published by Ponte Invisible (Redsea Cultural Foundation). This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So At One With You is a groundbreaking anthology of the last fifty years of Somali poetry, and marks ten years of collaboration between Kayd Somali Arts and Culture and the Poetry Translation Centre. The anthology celebrates the primary medium for public debate in this 'nation of poets', where audiences in their hundreds gather to listen to an intricate, virtuosic artform that speaks directly to them about the great issues of their time. As the title - taken from the work of Maxamed Ibraahin Warsame "Hadraawi" - suggests, in Somali literature the poet is utterly at one with their listener sharing values and aesthetics in an intimate manner that offers food for thought to English-speaking writers, readers, and critics. The present selection brings together eighteen key poets from across the generations, and combines tender love poetry and pastoral idyll with scathing attacks on corruption and hypocrisy, as well as social satire on life in the cities of the Horn of Africa and across the globe. This is a world poetry, both in its imaginative reach and in its ability to speak to the debates we all face in a time of global crisis.

The Yibir of Las Burgabo

The Yibir of Las Burgabo

Author: Mahmood Gaildon

Publisher: Red Sea Press(NJ)

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13:

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The Yibir of Las Burgabo is the story of a Yibir family in Somalia. (Yibirs are the most ostracized and despised group in Somalia.) In this novel, after an out-of-town trip on foot, Geeddi never returns home. Instead, his two children, Amina and Ali are greeted with news of his death one day. His teenager daughter, Amina, assumes the role of parent for her nine-year-old brother. She knows her family's past which she keeps secret from her brother out of respect for her late father's wishes. As Ali grows up, he becomes an excellent student and a wonderful soccer player. His private thoughts, however, leave him frustrated and confused. He has no memory of his mother and no knowledge of what has happened to her. He knows Yibirs are shunned and unwanted but doesn't know why. He is unable to accept or forget his father's death. And on top of all this, the brother and sister have to deal with poverty. This novel is a narrative of the conflict between Ali's search for a comfortable social niche and the society determined to keep him out. A tug of war continues throughout most of the book until critical moments of revelation drive the central point of the book home for the reader. The Yibir of Las Burgabo is a story about fortitude, dignity and, survival in the face of tragedy, rejection and contempt.


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Download or read book The Yibir of Las Burgabo written by Mahmood Gaildon and published by Red Sea Press(NJ). This book was released on 2005 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yibir of Las Burgabo is the story of a Yibir family in Somalia. (Yibirs are the most ostracized and despised group in Somalia.) In this novel, after an out-of-town trip on foot, Geeddi never returns home. Instead, his two children, Amina and Ali are greeted with news of his death one day. His teenager daughter, Amina, assumes the role of parent for her nine-year-old brother. She knows her family's past which she keeps secret from her brother out of respect for her late father's wishes. As Ali grows up, he becomes an excellent student and a wonderful soccer player. His private thoughts, however, leave him frustrated and confused. He has no memory of his mother and no knowledge of what has happened to her. He knows Yibirs are shunned and unwanted but doesn't know why. He is unable to accept or forget his father's death. And on top of all this, the brother and sister have to deal with poverty. This novel is a narrative of the conflict between Ali's search for a comfortable social niche and the society determined to keep him out. A tug of war continues throughout most of the book until critical moments of revelation drive the central point of the book home for the reader. The Yibir of Las Burgabo is a story about fortitude, dignity and, survival in the face of tragedy, rejection and contempt.