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2. Somali studies - Wikipedia

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   In the field of Somali Islamic studies, scholars like Ioan Lewis, Said Sheikh Samatar and Lee V. Cassanelli have written on the traditional Muslim structure of Somali society in books such as A Pastoral Democracy: A Study of Pastoralism and Politics Among the Northern Somali of the Horn of Africa (1961), Oral poetry and Somali nationalism: the ...

3. Somali literature - Wikipedia

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   A Lion's tale is a popular children's book in the Somali diaspora wherein two Somali immigrant children struggle to adapt to life in a new environment. They find themselves surrounded by friends that strike them as greedy, only to magically return to Ancient Somalia where they live out all of the popular Somali folktales for themselves.

4. Somali alphabets - Wikipedia

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   A number of attempts had been made from the 1920s onwards to standardize the language using a number of different alphabets. Shortly following independence and the 1960 union, the Somali Language Committee was created, headed by Somali scholar Musa Haji Ismail Galal, the first Somali professionally trained in modern phonetics. [5]

5. Hargeisa International Book Fair - Wikipedia

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   The Hargeisa International Book Fair (HIBF) (Somali: Bandhigga Caalamiga ah ee Buugaagta Hargeysa) is an annual cultural event in the republic of Somaliland. It is one of the largest public book fairs in the Horn of Africa. Every summer, HIBF brings writers, poets, artists and thinkers from Somaliland and from all over the world gather to share ...

6. Osmanya alphabet - Wikipedia

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   Osman Yusuf Kenadid. While Osmanya gained reasonably wide acceptance in Somalia and quickly produced a considerable body of literature, it proved difficult to spread among the population mainly due to stiff competition from the long-established Arabic script as well as the emerging Somali Latin alphabet developed by a number of leading scholars of Somali, including Musa Haji Ismail Galal, B. W ...

7. Martin Orwin - Wikipedia

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   He is also the author of Colloquial Somali, a popular book & CD instruction course on the Somali language. Additionally, Orwin is a member of the International Advisory Board of Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies , published by Macalester College .

8. National Library of Somalia - Wikipedia

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   In December of that year, the Somali authorities officially launched a major project to rebuild the National Library. With Zainab Hassan serving as Director, the $1 million federal government-funded initiative intends for a new library complex to be built in the capital within six months.

9. National Library of Somaliland - Wikipedia

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   A young librarian arranging books. The National Library at Hargeysa, Somaliland. National Library of Somaliland or Silanyo National Library is the national library of Somaliland. It is located in Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, and is the first and largest national library in Somaliland. [1]