Somali Studies: Enhancing Public Knowledge, Building Networks, and Exploring Collaborative Opportunities
January 19, 2025
Revised version of a note presented at the 15th Somali Studies Congress, Mogadishu, Sunday the 15th of December- Wednesday the 18th of December 2024. [...]
Realigning Somali Transnational Community Responses Towards Tangible Transformations (Revised version of a talk given at Somali Diaspora Conference- “Harnessing the Power of the Somali Diaspora for a Better and Prosperous Somalia- 22-24 July 2024. Doha, Qatar)
August 1, 2024
Abdulkadir Osman Farah, PhD Abstract Despite deep ancestral connections, tension and antagonistic relationships exist between Somalis in the homeland [...]
Transnational Durable Solutions for Urban Migratory Challenges: Fostering Connections and Commonalities with Internally Displaced Youth Youth
March 12, 2024
Abdirahman Ahmed Mohamed Program Manager for Early Recovery (IOM Nigeria) and Livelihood/CBI) With Abdi Aadam Consultant based in Nairobi Corresponding [...]
The Renewal of Transnational Proxy Wars: The Escalating Geopolitical Crisis in the Red Sea and Beyond
January 18, 2024
Abdulkadir Osman Farah With Abdi Aadam (Consultant based in Nairobi) Abstract Major global powers, like the United States, often harbor worries about the [...]
Celebrating Transnational Reading and Writing
September 13, 2023
By Dr. Abdulkadir Osman Farah, PhD Last weekend, September 1st, 2023, the Somali-Scandinavian transnational publisher “Laashin-Halabuur” [...]
Qaran Ku Nool (Living with Statehood)
August 24, 2023
By Abdulkadir Osman Farah Recently, some members of the struggling marginalized Somali communities staged a public demonstration protesting social and [...]
Reflections on Unequal Transnational Mobility Privileges
May 25, 2023
Dr Abdulkadir Osman Farah, PhD Abstract In most affluent societies, and particularly those in the North, transnational privileges and human mobility remain [...]
Ali Jimale Ahmed on Transformation and the Sociopolitical
January 19, 2023
Dr Abdulkadir Osman Farah, PhD “My people: there is such a thing as society! To the one who says you have no choice, reply, ‘You have no clue!’ [...]
Desperate Quest for Transnational Sanctuaries with Hopefulness
November 25, 2021
By Abdulkadir Osman Farah, PhD [Malak, a 26 years old pregnant Iraqi refugee, was according to reports willing to go “through chest-deep water, hiding [...]
Saviours with Survivors: Situated Afghan Transnational Solidarities
September 23, 2021
By Abdulkadir Osman Farah, PhD In pursuing hierarchical and geopolitical national solidarities, top-down unilateral processes (e.g. the recent US and NATO [...]