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Women and Words: The Role of Women in Somali Oral Literature

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Amina H. Adan
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (2): 81–92.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-16-2-81
Published: 01 August 1996
...Amina H. Adan © 1996: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1996 Women and Words: The Role of Women in Somali Oral Literature Amina H. Adan Oral literature reveals much about a society. Here strong we...
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Somalia: An Illusory Political Nation-State

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Amina H. Adan
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (1): 99–109.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-14-1-99
Published: 01 May 1994
... International USA, 1989). Cassanelli , Lee V. , 1982 . The Shaping of Somali Society: Reconstructing the History of a Pastoral People 1600–1900 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press). Contini , P. , 1969 . The Somali Republic: An Experiment in Legal Integration (London...
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Ephemerality

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Anooradha Siddiqi
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 24–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-8186005
Published: 01 May 2020
... and Somalia planning and designing a restaurant, building on a seed grant from the organization CARE. The restaurant was located at a neighborhood boundary in a block where Somali refugees lived, abutting a block where Sudanese refugees lived. According to the group of Sudanese women, they approached...
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The African Diaspora in the Northwestern Indian Ocean: Reconsideration of an Old Problem, New Directions for Research

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Edward A. Alpers
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1997) 17 (2): 62–81.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-17-2-62
Published: 01 August 1997
.... From the Nile to take up his challenge. As he noted a decade ago on valley and the Sudan, the Ethiopian highlands, and the the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the abolition deep coastal lowlands of the Red Sea and Somali coasts, of slavery at Mauritius, “one must acknowledge that the we can...
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Arab “Amirka”: Exploring Arab Diasporas in Mexico and the United States

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Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 282–295.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-1264235
Published: 01 August 2011
... coincides danian, Palestinian, Egyptian, Iraqi, Moroccan, with a nationalist scholarship that rarely men- Saudi Arabian, Yemeni, and Somali immigrants.   tions the impact of a Mexican immigrant tra- While an account of each of these immigrant dition...
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The “Fate of Minorities” in the Early Afro-Asian Struggle for Decolonization

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Cindy Ewing
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 340–346.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-9407858
Published: 01 December 2021
... and Protection of Human Rights. The about-face was a decisive blow to the national aspirations of Somalis and Eritreans, populations living in divided territories governed by militaries that had not even completed withdrawal. The compromises of the Arab and Asian member-states to, in essence, select winners...
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A Note: Minorities' Responses to Racism in the British Seamen's Union

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G. Alonso Pirio
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1984) 4 (2): 56–58.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-4-2-56
Published: 01 August 1984
... War form of self-defense for the seamen. The African Muslim I, when in the summer of 1919 white assaults against people Association, which represented a collaborative effort between of color reached widespread proportions. In virtually every Somali seamen and boarding...
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Enclosing the Seas: Political Economies of Violence across the Nineteenth-Century Arabian Sea

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Johan Mathew
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 91–106.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-9698125
Published: 01 May 2022
... for relinquishing the profits of protection. However, other states that conceded their right to shipwrecks without violent resistance were provided monetary compensation for renouncing their customary claims. 35 Soon after the establishment of the British Colony at Aden, the Majerteen Somalis quickly realized...
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Introduction: Multilingual Locals and Textual Circulation before Colonialism

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Francesca Orsini, Sara Marzagora, Karima Laachir
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 63–67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-7493777
Published: 01 May 2019
... interactions along the Red Sea/Somali coast. Islamic literacy certainly influenced scriptural practices, and we find manuscripts in local languages (particularly Harari) written in the Arabic script (‘Ajami). 15 Some languages, like Oromo, were in fact first written down in the Arabic script in the context...
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Shaping the World: Soviet-African Technologies from the Sahel to the Cosmos

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Asif Siddiqi
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 41–55.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-8916932
Published: 01 May 2021
.... Afrika vybiraet put’ ( Africa Chooses the Path ). Moscow : Nauka , 1970 . Solodovnikov V. G. , ed. Uchenye zapiski Sovetsko-somaliisko ekspeditsii ( Scientific Notes of the Soviet-Somali Expedition ). Moscow : Nauka , 1974 . Sudarikov Andrei Mikhailovich . “ Rossiiskie uchenye...
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Dhow Itineraries: The Making of a Shadow Economy in the Western Indian Ocean

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Nidhi Mahajan
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 407–419.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-7885356
Published: 01 December 2019
... trade network made up of Somalis, Swahilis, South Asians, and Arabs across India, Pakistan, Kenya, Somalia, Oman, and the UAE. These dhow networks were severely affected, as Operation Linda Nchi led to greater insecurity around Kismayu. Yet this does not mean that this entire network was involved...
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Figure 2. Ifo Camp, Dadaab, Kenya, 2011. Refugees from Sudan and Somalia planning and designing a restaurant, building on a seed grant from the organization CARE. The restaurant was located at a neighborhood boundary in a block where Somali refugees lived, abutting a block where Sudanese refugees lived. According to the group of Sudanese women, they approached the Somali women to partner so that customers would be confident that the restaurant served halal meat. The photo captures some of the everyday social diversity in this camp, showing different refugee communities, a Kenyan aid worker (in the orange t-shirt), and a US-based researcher (the author). Photo by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi.

Ifo Camp, Dadaab, Kenya, 2011. Refugees from Sudan and Somalia planning and...

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Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 2. Ifo Camp, Dadaab, Kenya, 2011. Refugees from Sudan and Somalia planning and designing a restaurant, building on a seed grant from the organization CARE. The restaurant was located at a neighborhood boundary in a block where Somali refugees lived, abutting a block where Sudanese refugees More
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“We Unite with Knowledge”: The Peoples’ Friendship University and Soviet Education for the Third World

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Abigail Judge Kret
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (2): 239–256.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-2322516
Published: 01 August 2013
... “students’ free time is filled with political indoctri- students at various Soviet universities, including nation.” 40 According to Somali students who stud- the Peoples’ Friendship University, reported prob- ied at Peoples’ Friendship University, even when lems with the ubiquitous Soviet roommates who...
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Pondering the Text as Change Maker

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Anne K. Bang
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 375–381.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-3139168
Published: 01 August 2015
... Press , 1999 . Ghazal Amal . Islamic Reform and Arab Nationalism: Expanding the Crescent from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean (1880s–1930s) . London : Routledge , 2010 . Hoffman Valerie . “In His (Arab) Majesty's Service: The Career of a Somali Scholar and Diplomat...
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The Star Raft: China's Encounter with Africa

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Gloria Waite
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1989) 9 (2): 83–85.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-9-2-83
Published: 01 August 1989
... manufactures. Four of the Star Raft expeditions in Africa despite their own poverty. It is an easy book to went to the East African coast, where they spent some time read, includes historical maps of Chinese geographers, and a visiting the Somali coastal towns of Mogadishu, Brava and number...
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Speaking Back to Sovereign Power: On the Concept of Nested Authority

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Timothy Raeymaekers
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 474–477.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-8747434
Published: 01 December 2020
... . Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner , 2013 . Hagmann Tobias , and Hoehne Marcus V. “ Failures of the State Failure Debate: Evidence from the Somali Territories .” Journal of International Development 21 , no. 1 ( 2009 ): 42 – 57 . Hansen Thomas Blom , and Stepputat Finn...
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Doing Knowledge through Knowing Women

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Rachel Spronk
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 676–680.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-10148194
Published: 01 December 2022
... , and van Dijk Rijk . “ Labour of Love: Secrecy and Kinship among Ghanaian-Dutch and Somali-Dutch in the Netherlands .” Ethnography 21 , no. 3 ( 2020 ): 394 – 412 . Boellstorff Tom . “ Queer Studies in the House of Anthropology .” Annual Review of Anthropology 36 ( 2007 ): 17 – 35...
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Violence, Democracy, and the Major-Minor Question

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Ruchi Chaturvedi
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 49–62.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-7493766
Published: 01 May 2019
... and against the denial of “basic needs” also translated into or were preceded by grievous negrophobic and xenophobic attacks on working-class immigrants from other parts of the African continent as well as South Asia. 13 Attacks on Somali, Zimbabwean, and Pakistani traders in these areas came...
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Global Currents and the Transformation of Space in Indian Ocean Africa

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Jeremy Prestholdt
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (2): 146–162.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-10615622
Published: 01 August 2023
...–98 . 79. Frederick, Twilight . 80. Fair, Pastimes ; Ryan, “A Decade” ; Ryan, “Global Reach.” 81. Cassanelli, Shaping of Somali Society , 167–68 ; Sheriff, Slaves, Spices, and Ivory , 72 ; Frederick, Twilight . 82. Prestholdt, “ Sultana ” ; Prestholdt...
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“Selling at a Wash:” Competition and the Indian Merchant Community in Aden Crown Colony

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Charles Schaefer
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1999) 19 (2): 16–23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-19-2-16
Published: 01 August 1999
... that cabotage was domi- century almost every family had members in sea ports nated by Somalis and Arabs, but does not specifjr from in order to send messages on the first available boat Schaefer: “Selling at a Wash” 19 and since local dhows...
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