GSR decided to relocate from the bustling metropolitan of the capital. Much as Nairobi has been accommodating –eagerly so- it was just too far removed from the death and the suffering. The stark contrast between the happy-go-lucky dwellers of the sky scrapers and the nomads fighting for their lives was a tragedy to behold. If we moved, we could save a pretty dime on...Continue reading »
Category Archives: Diaspora [ QURBAHA ]
With tensions mounting between the U.S. and the Muslim world, integrating newcomers from those countries raises a whole set of sensitivities and challenges. That’s where “Hawo’s Dinner Party: The New Face of Southern Hospitality” comes in. This half-hour DVD serves as a tool for community leaders — including educators, clergy, law enforcement, public officials,...Continue reading »
Abwaanka Da’da yar ee waayadan dambeba dhagaheena ku shubayay heeso casriyaysan oo aan haddana ka tagin qaabkii dahabiga ahaa ee loo samayn jiray heesaheena ayaa soo saaray Hees cusub oo uu ugu magac daray Deeqa. DEEQA Waxaa ku luuqaynaya Fanaanka AHZAAB OSMAN, Waana Ereyadii iyo Laxankii, iyo Muusigii SALAH DONYALE Daawo Heesta DEEQA, Halkan Riix ...
Liboi Town 11 am, Monday 18th July 2011 The five of us clutch onto our tools of trade; cameras, pens, paper, mental snapshots. We are desperate to document the things we see, desperate to scratch them with a stick onto the sands of time. What I’ve been seeing seems too big for my eyes, and I tussle back and forth in my mind, trying to find words to put it down. The...Continue reading »
Liboi town: 8.30 am, Monday 18th July 2011. The waiting is so intense, it’s as if we are waiting to start waiting. A.Aato giving one of the mothers some water. We sit in the car at Arif Centre, by a structure that reads: Peponi Hotel- For Quick Snacks. A bus is docked a few metres away and veiled women, in single file, climb into it. Mashaallah, the front of the bus...Continue reading »
Banaanbax lagu taagerayey Farmaajo oo ka dhacay magalada minneapolis, MN waxaa lagu taagerayey in uu wax ka qabto dhibta taal Soomaaliya siina wada shaqadisa inkastoo uu ku dhawaaqay in uu iska casilayo shaqada uu ka hayo dowlada wuxuuse balan qaday in uu la shaqayan doono maamulka cusub ee la samayan doono. Halkan ka Daawo ...
Minneapolis: Waxaa Maanta lagu qabtay banaanbax lagu taageerayo Raysalwasaare Maxamed C/laahi Farmaajo ka dib markii maamulka Dowlada ku meel gaarka ah ay ka soo yeedhay in uu ka tago shaqada uu ka hayo Dowlada, Waxay Bulshada Soomaaliyeed ee degan Gobolka Minnesota ka xumaadeen dhawaaqa ka soo yeeray maamulka uu hogaminayo Sh. Shariif iyo Shariif Sakiin oo la gaashaday...Continue reading »
The Somali community is asking the Edmonton Police Commission to hire one of its own to bridge the divide between its community and the police. “We are calling for institutional change by the commission and if they don’t do that, we petition the province and the federal (government) to come and investigate,” said Mahamad Accord, president of the Alberta Somali Community...Continue reading »
As a Muslim we have to face the reality that we are Americans, we are the product of where we live. Luckily, we come to the best country in the world which is the United States, which is like a land of immigrants. When I saw people, police officers, firefighters, going to the buildings that were collapsing to help other people, and I was watching them on T.V. I mean, it...Continue reading »
Two days after a Somali man was arrested in Columbus on terrorism charges, Somalis gathered to protest the ouster of Somalia’s popular prime minister. They fear that more political instability in the war-ravaged country could give Islamic extremists a leg up in their fight against Somalia’s shaky government. That in turn could increase the risk that al-Shabab,...Continue reading »
Given the unease between the Jewish and Muslim communities, the stories of collaboration and friendship often get overlooked. Well, have you heard the one about the Jewish guy who’s legal counsel for the Canadian Somali Congress? That’d be James Morton. And I’ll bet you didn’t know that the Jewish communities in Toronto, Ottawa and Windsor, Ont., are helping mentor...Continue reading »
Magaalada Minneapolis ee Gobolka Minnesota waxaa Satida bishan June/18 keeda lagu qabanayaa Banaan bax lagu taageerayo Waraysal wasaare Maxamed C/laahi Farmaajo ka dib markii markuu u dul qaadan waayey cadaadsika kaga imanaya 2 sh. Shariif uuna go aan ku gaaray in uu 30 cisho gudadhood iskaga casilayo booska uu ka hayo Dowlada ku meel gaarka waxay Soomaalidu diiday in...Continue reading »
Sheikh Osman Barre is calling on Edmonton's Somali community to end the violence that has seen 13 Somali men killed in three years. (CBC) For the second time in two weeks Edmonton Sheikh Osman Barre prepared another member of his community for a funeral. “It’s very worse it’s becoming — day after day,” he said. Dozens of family and community...Continue reading »
The photo of a stern-looking young man that appeared in a local Somali newspaper is the only one that Mumina Roba has of her son. There won’t be any more. On Tuesday, she stared at the picture of Farah Mohamed Beledi and nodded when asked whether he was her boy. Beledi’s journey from St. Paul high school student to presumed suicide bomber has left Roba heartbroken...Continue reading »
Saado cali oo ah fanaanad Qaran mudo 35 sano ahna soo waday fanka iyo waxaa habeenkii sabtidii xaflad weyn loogu qabtay magaalada Toronto, halkaas oo lagu siiyey (Lifetime Achievement Award) oo la gudoonsiiyey Giiraan dahaba. waxaa habeenkan qiimaha leh isku soo duba riday urur ka Somali Refugee Awareness Project oo ah urur u taagan taageerida qaxootiga Soomaaliyeed oo...Continue reading »
Edmonton police at the scene of Edmonton's 25th homicide of the year Friday, near 86 Street and 106A Avenue. (LAURA PEDERSEN/EDMONTON SUN) Alberta’s Somali Community is identifying Edmonton’s 25th homicide victim of the year as Abdi Ali. A man in his 30′s was fatally shot east of downtown last Friday. A tent was eventually set up in the area shielding...Continue reading »
When Omar Hussein was young his parents moved to the U.S. to escape civil war in Somalia. When he arrived here he only knew the Somali language. “We used to have to walk from city to city in Somalia,” says his grandmother, “and that was our exercise and many first generation Somali didn’t know any different.” At age 23, Hussein is now a senior fitness advisor...Continue reading »
