Daughters of Arraweelo: Stories of Somali Women
In Daughters of Arraweelo, Somali women share experiences of love, war, family, displacement, identity, and everyday life. After a civil war broke out in Somalia in 1991, thousands of people fled the country, seeking asylum all over the world. Many Somali women were charged with the responsibility of finding safe passage and a new home. The largest numbers in this diaspora settled in Minnesota.
In spite of many obstacles, Somali women have gone on to build new communities and become business owners, authors, scholars, activists and organizers, elected officials, and change makers. Unfortunately, their rich stories are often reduced to accounts of devastation and trauma, or tokenized, or considered as exceptional. Rarely are these women presented with the multi-layered humanity they deserve. This book celebrates their complicated stories and deliberately disrupts the conventional narrative.
Arraweelo, an ancient queen of the Somali people, was known for her fierce leadership and her work to empower women. Her daughters are with us today.
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Daughters of Arraweelo: Stories of Somali Women
In Daughters of Arraweelo, Somali women share experiences of love, war, family, displacement, identity, and everyday life. After a civil war broke out in Somalia in 1991, thousands of people fled the country, seeking asylum all over the world. Many Somali women were charged with the responsibility of finding safe passage and a new home. The largest numbers in this diaspora settled in Minnesota.
In spite of many obstacles, Somali women have gone on to build new communities and become business owners, authors, scholars, activists and organizers, elected officials, and change makers. Unfortunately, their rich stories are often reduced to accounts of devastation and trauma, or tokenized, or considered as exceptional. Rarely are these women presented with the multi-layered humanity they deserve. This book celebrates their complicated stories and deliberately disrupts the conventional narrative.
Arraweelo, an ancient queen of the Somali people, was known for her fierce leadership and her work to empower women. Her daughters are with us today.
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Daughters of Arraweelo: Stories of Somali Women

Daughters of Arraweelo: Stories of Somali Women

by Ayaan Adan
Daughters of Arraweelo: Stories of Somali Women

Daughters of Arraweelo: Stories of Somali Women

by Ayaan Adan

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In Daughters of Arraweelo, Somali women share experiences of love, war, family, displacement, identity, and everyday life. After a civil war broke out in Somalia in 1991, thousands of people fled the country, seeking asylum all over the world. Many Somali women were charged with the responsibility of finding safe passage and a new home. The largest numbers in this diaspora settled in Minnesota.
In spite of many obstacles, Somali women have gone on to build new communities and become business owners, authors, scholars, activists and organizers, elected officials, and change makers. Unfortunately, their rich stories are often reduced to accounts of devastation and trauma, or tokenized, or considered as exceptional. Rarely are these women presented with the multi-layered humanity they deserve. This book celebrates their complicated stories and deliberately disrupts the conventional narrative.
Arraweelo, an ancient queen of the Somali people, was known for her fierce leadership and her work to empower women. Her daughters are with us today.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781681341835
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Publication date: 01/18/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Ayaan Adan is a UX designer, author, and activist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She blogs at https://www.arraweelo.org.

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“Somalis have always been a nomadic people. . . . We are a people who will find a way and adapt to any circumstance. We can go anywhere, and we will bring our full selves along.” —Shamis Ibrahim (pseudonym), 40s “I love my siblings so much. I remember bringing them home from the hospital and changing all their diapers. As their older sister, I tried to protect them from what I went through.”
Fartun Mohamed (pseudonym), 20s

“The biggest challenge I faced in school was the lowered expectations of my teachers and administrators. Because I was an immigrant kid, they expected me to fail. If I did even remotely well, I would get so much credit at school because they expected the bare minimum. But at home, my dad wouldn’t accept anything but excellence.”
Amran Farah, 30s

“We made a living for ourselves, but then we had to flee. I lost all my livestock. The irony was that we had fled to Mogadishu for safety, and we now had to leave Mogadishu for safety. We were refugees once again.” 
Shukriya Abdirahman (pseudonym), 80s

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Aisha Musse, 20s, Mombasa, Kenya, pseudonym

2. Habon Hirsi, 20s, Seattle, Washington, pseudonym

3. Warsan Omar, 20s, Mombasa, Kenya, pseudonym

4. Fartun Mohamed, 20s, Virginia, pseudonym

5. Anisa Ali, 20s, Mogadishu, Somalia

6. Layla Abdulkarim, 20s, Middle East, pseudonym

7. Amran Farah, 30s, Mogadishu, Somalia

8. Qorsho Hassan, 30s, Louisiana

9. Roun Said, 30s, Atlanta, Georgia

10. Kaltun Karani, 30s, United Arab Emirates

11. Shamis Ibrahim, 40s, Mogadishu, Somalia, pseudonym

12. Shukriya Abdirahman, 80s, Jigjiga, Ethiopia, pseudonym

13. Sahro Ali, 60s, Baraawe, Somalia, pseudonym

14. Ubax Yussuf, 90s, Bosaso, Somalia, pseudonym

Acknowledgments

Glossary

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