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2 unusual facts about Said Sheikh Samatar


Said Sheikh Samatar

In 1992, as part of the Social Science Research Council team's reassessment of the "Teaching and Study of the Humanities in Africa," he went to Somalia as a consultant and interpreter for the ABC news program Nightline with the American journalist Ted Koppel.

He completed his early education with a stint at a middle school in Nazareth, Ethiopia.


Somali Studies

In the field of Somali Islamic studies scholars such as Said Sheikh Samatar and Abdi Kusow both have detailed in books such as Racial and Religious Contexts (2007) and Oral poetry and Somali nationalism: the case of Sayyid Mahammad 'Abdille Hasan (1982) the impact of Islam on Somali self-consciousness and unity.


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