Opinion
BOOKS OF THE TIMES: Warriors on 2 Sides of Militant Islam
If you were the Franklin Mint and wanted to issue a set of four collectible dinner plates devoted to “The Women of the War on Terror,” whose faces...
Read More »Somali Nationalism: Not Dead, Just Different
I write with reference to Peter Lockwood’s piece entitled “Somali Nationalism: A Dead Concept?” published on 9th January....
Read More »Venal TFIs leaders shouldn’t be allowed to privatize Somalia’s sovereignty
After seven years, the Transitional Federal Institutions (TFIs) that formed the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) have irreversibly mor...
Read More »SOMALI DIASPORA: A familiar situation for many Minnesotans
One hundred years ago, my grandfathers walked across Europe to various ports, leaving our families in czarist Russia, with its terrible persecution of...
Read More »Somalia’s Dire Lessons for Afghanistan
Anyone interested in seeing the future of Afghanistan need only take a short plane trip from Italy across Libya and Sudan to what is the most dysfunct...
Read More »Somalia: the permanent battlefield
On Friday Kenyan jets inflicted what its military spokesman confidently described as one of the biggest losses to al-Shabaab, a Salafi jihadi group wh...
Read More »MAXAMUUD AXMED NUUR: Shaqsiga Sanadka ee Hiiraan Online 2011
Soomaaliya, gaar ahaan gobolka Banaadir waxaa soo maray Guddoomiyayaal gobol oo aan la mid ahayn Maxamuud Axmed Nuur oo loo yaqaan Tarzan, kaasi oo ha...
Read More »Minnesota must battle against anti-Somali bigotry
I had just dropped off a first-grader at school and was headed to my job as a commercial banker in Minneapolis when the first plane hit the World Trad...
Read More »Mohamoud Ahmed Nur (Tarsan) : Hiiraan Online’s Person of the Year
It was a little over a year ago that Mohamoud Ahmed Nur got the phone call that would change his life. While living in London with his wife and childr...
Read More »The dead politics: a reflection of leadership failure in Somaliland.
In the twenty first century, Somalia has become a symbol for the characteristics of failed states, and it is an ideal example for universities and res...
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