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The ones with x next to them read "Aulihan"/Cawlyahaan and "Abd Wak"/Cabdwaaq. The ones at the top are Maxamed Suweer sub-clans (Ugaas Guuleed, Reer Amaadin, etc).

It does not matter why the person is behaving the way they are behaving, I'd decide for myself what is acceptable to me and I can bear and what is not. In this case, a message not responded to for weeks is unacceptable for me. You have to decide the quality of life you want and the boundaries...

The best I've read is "Taarikhda Afka iyo Bulshada Soomaaliyeed" by Prof. Cabdalla Mansuur

I'd have used "dariiq" even though it is of Arabic origin.

Masha'Allah. Nasra is doing a great job.

My brother's was removed 5 years ago. He seems fine to me.

The main principle is that contentment in Islam comes from the soul's closeness to Allah. That is our natural pure state or Fitrah. The more alienated the soul is from Allah, the less contented we are. The entire corpus of Western psychology revolves around the lower self or nafs and trying to...

If it won't complicate your life, why not? e.g. is the process easy?

Corrupted by Freudian nonsense. I'll only see a Muslim therapist who brings in the spiritual aspects.

There is no pure culture. We mix and borrow.

Sofia Loren or Liz Taylor for me.

How many Somali clans does Faadumo belong to? Last I checked, she was Mareexaan.

A mother's love. Everyone else's is conditional. Some rare friendships too.

The Bajuni, by their own admission/oral history, have entire Somali clans mixed up with them over centuries e.g. Gaaljecel and Ogaadeen.

I read excerpts of Shugri Said Salh's "The last nomad: coming of age in the Somali desert" and it looks really good as well. This should be her first book I believe.

Born in the big Rains by Fadumo Korn is really good. Also books by Nuruddin Farah and Nadifa Mohamed.

Yeah, mostly cousins. German, Brit, Autralian, Spanish, Arabs (Morocco, Syria, Iraq), Turks.

It is unethical NOT to tell her. This is a grown up person who has seen life and death in her time so she can handle the truth. We had a similar issue in our family and felt we couldn't tell our uncle about his terminal cancer so we got the clan elders to do it the old-fashioned Somali way...

Hi guys. Anyone here with experience with the IOU (Islamic/International Open University)? A friend is raving about it as a good, affordable and flexible way to learn the deen and I wanted to see if there are folks in this forum who have gone through it.

Nothing wrong with celebrating one of your own. Let's learn to be happy for each other. Clan is an important factor in the lives of our people.