You ever visit UAE, or are the Somali community in Saudi well connected with the Somali community there?The circassian is a very well known person in Jeddah his family is actually an aristocratic family called Al Baroudi (the manufacturers of the gun powder) one of the most famous members of their family was Mahmoud Al Baroudi prime minister of Egypt in the 1880s they are not strictly Egyptian though after Mohamed Ali Pasha wiped out the mamluks and kicked them out of power in the 1800s they weren't allowed in any significant position. They are originally from the Crimean Khanate. Now regarding us meeting our cousins not only did we meet our cousins from Somalia and abroad. We also became the defacto Somali consulate in Khobar. Many Somalis from all clans would come to my family asking for assistance. Most of my uncles and ants make over 100k American dollars (my parents make 200k dollars) (the average Saudi household income is 32k dollars a year) and they spend 30% of that at the very least assisting Somalis in Saudi Arabia and back home. I mentioned that my grand father was a wealthy person, most of his wealth went towards Somalis back at home and abroad even when he went to England in 1998 for treatment Somalis from all clans forgot that he was a "faqash" involved with Siad Barre and asked him for money. Many of our relatives in the west went their with our assistance (one of whom is married to Abdulqasim Salad's brother and I meet them). However; there's a very strong anti Somali sentiment among many of my family members against Somalis and anything regarding the Somali race. They see Saudi Somalis as a different entity and the believe they are superior to Somalis. One of them almost burst into tears when I showed him a comment on Somalispot asking if there are any "Somali millionaires" because a crazy amount of Saudi Somali households are in fact millionaires so imagine shattering that image just like that. Last but not least we don't speak Somali very often in our household we just say words like awoowe ayeeyo Ader but some of my uncles speak Somali at home. However, We had very little contact with our Arab ayeeyo as she was living in Jeddah and I was raised by my step ayeeyo (Somali Dulbahante Jamac Siad). She was considered our ayeeyo and we called her ayeeyo and She was even behind my parents marriage and her approval was requested.