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Sulekha – Time & Time

Sulekha, Singer Songwriter born in Somalia, came to Canada at the tender age of 4. Her Mother and Father are her greatest source of inspiration after God. Finished a Bachelor degree in Human Rights, in Ottawa, Ontario and found music to become her outlet.’’ Music to me is my platform and [...]

Kronologies a Somali Art Exhibition (video)

With ‘Kronologies’ Nadia Faragaab reignites the debate and discussion surrounding the profound absence of Somali representation within the expanse of Australian culture. In the wider arts community there exists a void, within which, exists a lack of support and encouragement for Somali artists and consequently, an absence of Somali imagery and symbolism in the arts [...]

GSR, 3rd Distribution in Daffur Kenya

GSR, 3rd Distribution in Daffur Kenya

This is the 3rd trip made by  Global Somali Response team. This time we went to Daffur, Kenya to bring the first wave of supplies directly to the refugees fleeing drought and famine. The 80 families we fed are mainly from the Somali-Kenyan border villages on the Kenyan side.     Share on Facebook

Why I Founded SAFE (Somali and American Fund for Education)

Why I Founded SAFE (Somali and American Fund for Education)

SAFE’s mission to improve the quality of schools in Somalia depends on your support! There are several ways you can get involved as a volunteer. You can help spread the word about SAFE’s work by A) distributing informational brochures in your community, B) inviting a SAFE staff to give a presentation at your company/community group [...]

Jama began playing the sport as a teenager in Liverpool

GB Paralympian Abdi Jama grateful for basketball chance

By Elizabeth Hudson Monday, May 23, 2011 Great Britain wheelchair basketball player Abdi Jama admits that the sport has saved him from going down a potentially dangerous path.   The 28-year-old was born in Somalia but moved to Toxteth in Liverpool, when he was six. One of 32 children – his father had five wives [...]

Samia Yusuf Omar competes for Somalia in the Beijing Games in 2008 in the 200m heats [GALLO/GETTY]

Somali inspiration battles against the odds

“It was the happiest moment we ever had because we took our flag. We raised our flag. We felt like we were very important people.”     The 2008 Beijing Olympics opening ceremonies hold much more sentimentality for Somalia’s Samia Yusuf Omar, but it was her performance in a single 200-metre heat that sealed people’s [...]

Here today, gone tomorrow? Saving Somaliland’s heritage

Here today, gone tomorrow? Saving Somaliland’s heritage

Every week CNN International’s African Voices highlights Africa’s most engaging personalities, exploring the lives and passions of people who rarely open themselves up to the camera. WATCH THE VIDEO HERE (CNN) — When Sada Mire fled war-torn Somalia as a frightened teenager, the nation was descending into darkness, mired in the grip of a long civil [...]

Somali performance in China (video)

Sallaams peeps. I came across this video on youtube (via a friend of mine on facebook) and I thought it was a cool video and I just wanted to share it with you guys. Share on Facebook

Bodhari and Hodan: The Edge of Love

Bodhari and Hodan: The Edge of Love

By M. J. Farah They say Bodhari died before his time.  It was the burning love and its flame for Hodan that devoured this prolific poet in the 20th century.  He fell deeply in love with Hodan in an age when love itself was a cultural taboo in their society of Berbera, Somalia. Hodan was [...]

Somali Survivor & Gold Medalist Abdifatah Dhuhulow to run the London Marathon to raise money for the ‘Gift of Education’

Somali Survivor & Gold Medalist Abdifatah Dhuhulow to run the London Marathon to raise money for the ‘Gift of Education’

This is Abdifatah Dhuhulow. His story is an exceptional one. In 1991, Dhuhulow was living with his family in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, when civil war broke out. While trying to escape the city on a lorry, the family came under fire. Dhuhulow was shot in the ankle and fell off the lorry, and his [...]

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TED: A historic moment in the Arab world

TED: As a democratic revolution led by tech-empowered young people sweeps the Arab world, Wadah Khanfar, the head of Al Jazeera, shares a profoundly optimistic view of what’s happening in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and beyond — at this powerful moment when people realized they could step out of their houses and ask for change Source: [...]

Ahmed Hassan to take part in the Finish parliamentary elections

Ahmed Hassan to take part in the Finish parliamentary elections

Helsinki: Ahmed Hassan waa musharax somaliyeed oo dhalinyara ah una sharaxan doorashada barlamaanka 2011 ee Finland , xisbiga (RKP) Hadafka siyaasaddaydaFik-radahayaga siyaasadeed baa ah kuwa isbedel ku samayn doona siyaasadda wadanka Finland. Waxaan rabaa inaan xooga saaro arrima kala duwan oo ay ka mid yihiin sida isdhexgalka bulshada ama loo yaqaan integrationpolicy, ka horta taga [...]

Worldwide Somali Students – Meet Some Of The Members

Meet some of the members of Worldwide Somali Students. Find out about ‘Operation Restore Hope 2012′. This is one of the initiatives of WSS. We are aiming to get a 1,000 Somali Educated individuals from the diaspora going back together on the 25th June 2012. Free your diaries for 6 weeks from that date. Lets [...]

Ismahan Mohamed Hassan, a lawyer in Hargeisa

In court with the first women lawyers of Somaliland

Koos was just granted her divorce. She filed for divorce after her husband deserted her, just a few months after their wedding. She gave birth to their son but never heard from her husband again. She asked Ismahan Hassan Ahmed, one of the ten women lawyers in Somaliland, to advise her and represent her in [...]

Hersi- So what do you want me to say?

Hersi- So what do you want me to say?

Hersi is a former US Marine and veteran of Iraq. He is also a Somali Muslim. In this Video he recounts his experience as a Muslim in the American school system and the US military. __________ See more at www.thepoetnation.com.   Share on Facebook