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Somalia Books
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Infidel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.20 — 92,602 ratings — published 2006
Desert Flower (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.25 — 41,339 ratings — published 1998
The Orchard of Lost Souls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,859 ratings — published 2013
A House in the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.28 — 72,403 ratings — published 2013
Black Mamba Boy (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,355 ratings — published 2010
When Stars Are Scattered (Audio CD)
by (shelved 41 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.60 — 32,494 ratings — published 2020
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.30 — 68,943 ratings — published 1999
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.20 — 9,500 ratings — published 2022
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.24 — 21,408 ratings — published 2011
Call Me American: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.52 — 4,649 ratings — published 2018
Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.19 — 860 ratings — published 2013
The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,203 ratings — published 2021
The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.56 — 1,407 ratings — published 2011
North of Dawn (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.38 — 937 ratings — published 2018
From a Crooked Rib (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.30 — 645 ratings — published 1970
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,416 ratings — published 2016
The World's Most Dangerous Place: Inside the Outlaw State of Somalia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.77 — 430 ratings — published 2013
لا تقولي إنك خائفة (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.32 — 15,860 ratings — published 2014
Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.21 — 177 ratings — published 1993
Beyond Babylon (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.94 — 149 ratings — published 2008
Understanding Somalia and Somaliland: Culture, History, Society (Columbia/Hurst)
by (shelved 14 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.54 — 91 ratings — published 1993
The Fortune Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.79 — 5,651 ratings — published 2021
Crossbones (Past Imperfect Trilogy)
by (shelved 13 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.43 — 307 ratings — published 2011
Getting Somalia Wrong?: Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State (African Arguments)
by (shelved 13 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.01 — 171 ratings — published 2012
Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.90 — 283 ratings — published 2006
The Mayor of Mogadishu: A Story of Chaos and Redemption in the Ruins of Somalia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.01 — 447 ratings — published 2016
A Modern History of the Somali (Eastern African Studies)
by (shelved 12 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.94 — 83 ratings — published 1980
Fairytales for Lost Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.20 — 394 ratings — published 2013
Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,597 ratings — published 2010
Aman: The Story of a Somali Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.78 — 813 ratings — published 1994
This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,301 ratings — published 2020
Desert Dawn (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,495 ratings — published 2001
Hiding in Plain Sight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as somalia)
avg rating 2.89 — 691 ratings — published 2014
Inside Al-Shabaab: The Secret History of Al-Qaeda's Most Powerful Ally (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.13 — 149 ratings — published 2018
The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast (ebook)
by (shelved 9 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,547 ratings — published 2018
A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,374 ratings — published 2017
In the Company of Heroes: The Personal Story Behind Black Hawk Down (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,935 ratings — published 2003
Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.67 — 472 ratings — published 1988
Clan Cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991 (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
by (shelved 8 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.02 — 45 ratings — published 2012
La mia casa è dove sono (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.06 — 690 ratings — published 2010
A Woman of Firsts: The Midwife Who Built a Hospital and Changed the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.57 — 743 ratings — published 2019
Tale of a Boon's Wife (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.27 — 136 ratings — published 2017
Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine (Global Insecurities)
by (shelved 7 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.39 — 101 ratings — published 2016
Sweet and Sour Milk (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.60 — 217 ratings — published 1980
Al-Shabaab in Somalia: The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group, 2005-2012 (Columbia/Hurst)
by (shelved 7 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.84 — 76 ratings — published 2012
“Gostaria de correr. Brincar com outros filhotes. Ter uma mãe. Fundir-se à savana. Mas a savana está distante, muito longe. Para ele, é uma terra proibida. Encontra-se em perpétuo exílio, uma criança nascida sozinha. Nem sabe se um dia voltará para a África. Nem sabe se já esteve lá. [...] O elefantinho do Bernini da Piazza della Minerva é um dos melhores amigos que tenho em Roma. Para mim, aquele elefantinho é somali. Tem o mesmo olhar dos exilados. E também a mesma irreverência. [...] Com o tempo, descobri que aquele elefantinho tem o mesmo olhar da minha mãe. Não pode voltar, não pode saciar a sede da sua angústia. O exilado é uma criatura dividida. As raízes foram arrancadas, a vida foi mutilada, a esperança eviscerada, o princípio separado, a identidade despida. Parece não ter sobrado nada. Ameaças, dentes crispados, maldade. [...] Minha mãe viveu muitos lampejos. Antes de ser arrancada da Somália, alguém a havia arrancado da mata. De nômade foi forçada a se tornar sedentária. E todas as vezes teve que reinventar-se, teve que redesenhar o seu mapa. Aquele lampejo que vejo em minha mãe e no elefantinho do Bernini são as histórias que nadam em seus ventres. Afinal de contas, se vocês se aproximarem de uma somali ou de um somali, é isso que vão receber: histórias. Histórias para o dia e histórias para a noite. Para vigília, para o sono... para os sonhos.”
― La mia casa è dove sono
― La mia casa è dove sono
“Si dalkiinu uu meel sare u gaaro, oo u noqdo mid mar kale horumar ku tilaabsada, ka bilaaba in aad doorataan hogaamiye wanaagsan. Ha ogolaanina in warbaahinta iyo kuwa danaha-gaarka ah lehi ay idinku qasbaan in aad doorataan dadka ay ayagu idiin xuleen, balse doorta dadka aysan ayagu xulan. Dadka dhexdiisa ka doorta hogaamiyaha, oo ah mid uu wado wadnahiisu, mid isu arka in uu matalo shacabka dalka, ogna waxa dalku u baahan yahay dhinac walba.
Ha dooranina hogaamiye lacag uun u socda, oo aan waxba ka ogayn shacabka, shacabkana aan xiriir la lahayn, balse kaliya og waxa shirkadahu u baahan yahiin. Doorta nabaddoon. Mid dadka mideeya, ee aan qaybin. Hogaamiye aqoon leh oo taageera dhaqanka iyo xoriyadda figrad-dhhiibashada; oo aan ahayn mid dadka afka qabta. Doorta hogaamiye maalgaliya iskuulada, oo aan joojin maalgalinta waxbarashada, una ogolaanayn in maktabadahu xirmaan.
Doorta hogaamiye wadahadal ka doorta in la dagaalo. Hogaamiye dadnimo leh, mid dhahaya waxuu aaminsan yahay, mid balanta ka soo baxa oo aan dadka been u sheegin. Doorta hogaamiye adag oo isku-kalsoon, laakiin aan kor isu qaadin. Mid caqli badan, laakiin aan dhagarow ahayn, hogaamiyo ogol kala duwanaanta oo aan cunsuri ahayn.
Doorta hogaamiye maalgalinaya dhisidda buundooyin la isaga gudbo, ee aan dhisayn darbiyo dadka kala xira. Buugaag, maya hub, Daacadnimo, maya musuq-maasuq. Xigmad iyo aqoon, maya jahli, Xasilooni, maya baqdin iyo argagax. Nabad, maya burbur. Jacayl, maya nacayb, Isu-imaatin, maya kala qaybin. Dulqaad, maya cunsuriyayn, Daacadnimo, maya munaafaqnimo, Wax ku oolnimo, maya wax kama jiraan, Dabeecad, maya maangaabnimo, Soo bandhigid, maya qarsasho, Cadaalad, maya sharcidaro, Run, maya been.
Ugu danbayn, doorta hogaamiye dadkiisu ay ku farxayaan. Mid dhaqaajinaya qalbiyada dadka, si ay wiilasha iyo gabdhaha qaranku ugu dadaalaan in ay ku daydaan sharafta hogaamiyaha qaranka. Markaas oo qura ayaa qaran si fiican kor ugu kici karaa, marka hogaamiye dhiirigaliyo, soona saaro muwaadiniin u qalma in ay noqdaan hogaamiyayaasha mustaqbalka, maamulayaal qiimo badan iyo nabaddoono. Waqtiyada hadda lagu jirana, hogaamiye waa in uu noqdo mid dhiiran. Hogaankoodu waa inuu ku adeego daacadnimo, mana aha inay u shaqeeyaan laaluush.
Suzy Kassem, waana gabar qoraa Mareykan ah kana soo jeeda Masar, waa na faylasuuf.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Ha dooranina hogaamiye lacag uun u socda, oo aan waxba ka ogayn shacabka, shacabkana aan xiriir la lahayn, balse kaliya og waxa shirkadahu u baahan yahiin. Doorta nabaddoon. Mid dadka mideeya, ee aan qaybin. Hogaamiye aqoon leh oo taageera dhaqanka iyo xoriyadda figrad-dhhiibashada; oo aan ahayn mid dadka afka qabta. Doorta hogaamiye maalgaliya iskuulada, oo aan joojin maalgalinta waxbarashada, una ogolaanayn in maktabadahu xirmaan.
Doorta hogaamiye wadahadal ka doorta in la dagaalo. Hogaamiye dadnimo leh, mid dhahaya waxuu aaminsan yahay, mid balanta ka soo baxa oo aan dadka been u sheegin. Doorta hogaamiye adag oo isku-kalsoon, laakiin aan kor isu qaadin. Mid caqli badan, laakiin aan dhagarow ahayn, hogaamiyo ogol kala duwanaanta oo aan cunsuri ahayn.
Doorta hogaamiye maalgalinaya dhisidda buundooyin la isaga gudbo, ee aan dhisayn darbiyo dadka kala xira. Buugaag, maya hub, Daacadnimo, maya musuq-maasuq. Xigmad iyo aqoon, maya jahli, Xasilooni, maya baqdin iyo argagax. Nabad, maya burbur. Jacayl, maya nacayb, Isu-imaatin, maya kala qaybin. Dulqaad, maya cunsuriyayn, Daacadnimo, maya munaafaqnimo, Wax ku oolnimo, maya wax kama jiraan, Dabeecad, maya maangaabnimo, Soo bandhigid, maya qarsasho, Cadaalad, maya sharcidaro, Run, maya been.
Ugu danbayn, doorta hogaamiye dadkiisu ay ku farxayaan. Mid dhaqaajinaya qalbiyada dadka, si ay wiilasha iyo gabdhaha qaranku ugu dadaalaan in ay ku daydaan sharafta hogaamiyaha qaranka. Markaas oo qura ayaa qaran si fiican kor ugu kici karaa, marka hogaamiye dhiirigaliyo, soona saaro muwaadiniin u qalma in ay noqdaan hogaamiyayaasha mustaqbalka, maamulayaal qiimo badan iyo nabaddoono. Waqtiyada hadda lagu jirana, hogaamiye waa in uu noqdo mid dhiiran. Hogaankoodu waa inuu ku adeego daacadnimo, mana aha inay u shaqeeyaan laaluush.
Suzy Kassem, waana gabar qoraa Mareykan ah kana soo jeeda Masar, waa na faylasuuf.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
