Ninbrown the salaries of the foreign doctors are much higher than the rates of homegrown doctors, so economically speaking it WOULD make sense for those Somali private investors to stimulate the growth of homegrown doctors and nurses. There are plenty of universities in Puntland and the rest of Somalia they could draw from. Ibti, what program?

Nice! Hope future/recent university graduates can secure a position there. btw in the group picture Bosaso looks really nice, they should have taken a panorama of the city from the balcony

We need a team of Hashshashins to eliminate these goblins once and for all..

Scorpionsista: 1 uhh - Don't feel like it... 2. uhhhhh - Yeah you look thin.. 3. uhhhhhhh - Let me be... 4. uhhhhhhhhhh - I love you... 5. uhhhhhhhhhhhh - Happy valentine's day.. 6. uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - I agree... 7. uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - That's right.. 8. uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - I didn't look at your best friend.. 9. Manchester United - buzz off, i'm off to watch the game..

Maybe someone here on SOL can volunteer and represent us in Alaska?

Well they are a very homogeneous people and value that, also the fact that the majority of the population consists of the Yamato ethnic group is also a good reason why they might be xenophobic to foreigners, but there are currently two million Koreans and one million Chinese living there, and not to forget the hundreds of thousands of Brazilian workers.

Nope! but there are Somalis living there(and China,S-Korea etc). btw Lol@man_in_malaysia never reporting back on the Somali community there..(are you still with us?)

Lewiston,Maine, Revived by Somali immigrants By Jesse Ellison - Published Jan 17, 2009 - NEWSWEEK Barely a decade ago, Lewiston, Maine, was dying. The once bustling mill town's population had been shrinking since the 1970s; most jobs had vanished long before, and residents (those who hadn't already fled) called the decaying center of town "the combat zone." That was before a family of Somali refugees discovered Lewiston in 2001 and began spreading the word to immigrant friends and relatives that housing was cheap and it looked like a good place to build new lives and raise children in peace. Since then, the place has been transformed. Per capita income has soared, and crime rates have dropped. In 2004, Inc. magazine named Lewiston one of the best places to do business in America, and in 2007, it was named an "All-America City" by the National Civic League, the first time any town in Maine had received that honor in roughly 40 years. "No one could have dreamed this," says Chip Morrison, the local Chamber of Commerce president. "Not even me, and I'm an optimist." Immigrants from Somalia may sound like improbable rescuers for a place like Lewiston. Maine is one of the whitest states in the country, second only to Vermont, and its old families have a reputation for distinct chilliness toward "outsiders." And many of the immigrants spoke no English at all when they arrived. But even beyond the obvious racial, cultural and religious differences between the Muslim newcomers and the locals, the town's image had become so negative that it was hard to imagine people choosing to move there. "Nothing could have rightfully prepared them," says Paul Badeau of the Lewiston-Auburn Economic Growth Council. "And nothing could have rightfully prepared us, either." It wasn't easy at first. Townspeople feared for the few jobs that remained in the area, and they warned that the strangers would overload local social services. In 2002, the then Mayor Laurier Raymond wrote an open letter to the Somali community begging them to stop encouraging friends and family to follow them to Maine. But the Somalis kept coming, followed by Sudanese, Congolese and other Africans. By some estimates, 4,000 new immigrants have moved to Lewiston since 2001, and dozens are still arriving every month. Eight years ago, the town's adult-education center had only 76 students learning English as a second language. Now some 950 pass through every year. "This is just the teeniest little part of what has happened to the city," says the center's coordinator, Anne Kemper. "Everybody has had to scramble." Today, Somali women and children in donated winter parkas carefully navigate the snowbanks in the town's formerly crime-ridden low-income residential area. The center of town still has pawnbrokers and bars, but now there are also shops with names like Mogadishu and Baracka, with signs advertising halal foods and selling headscarves and prepaid African phone cards. "Generally, refugees or migrants that come into a town give a new injection of energy," says Karen Jacobsen, director of the Forced Migration Program at Tufts University's Feinstein International Famine Center. "Somalis particularly. They have a very good network [with strong] trading links, and new economic activities they bring with them." Retailers sell clothes and spices imported from Africa; other entrepreneurs have launched restaurants and small businesses providing translation services, in-home care for the elderly and other social services. There's even a business consultant. "Increasingly, there's an acceptance that immigration is associated with good economic growth," says urban-studies specialist Richard Florida, director of the University of Toronto's Martin Prosperity Institute. "How is Maine going to grow? It's a big state with a sparse population. One of the ways to grow quickly is import people." Commerce isn't all the Somalis are reshaping. Maine has America's highest median age and the lowest percentage of residents under 18. Throughout the 1990s, the state's population of 20- to 30-year-olds fell an average of 3,000 a year. Demographers predict that by 2030, the state will have only two workers for each retiree. "In many small Maine towns they're looking at having to close schools for lack of schoolchildren," says State Economist Catherine Reilly. "It will snowball. Right now we're seeing the difficulty of keeping some schools open; in 10 or 15 years that's going to be the difficulty of businesses finding workers." The same ominous trend is seen in other states with similarly homogenous demographics and low numbers of foreign-born residents—states like Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia. Reilly adds: "If you told a demographer just our racial composition, they would be able to guess that we're an old state with a low birthrate." Lewiston's sudden jolt is reflected even in enrollment at local universities. Although University of Maine enrollment has dropped systemwide since 2002, the student population at its Lewiston campus jumped 16 percent between 2002 and 2007. And Andover College, which opened a campus in Lewiston in 2004, had to start expanding almost immediately to accommodate a boom in applications. Enrollment doubled in two years. The reason? "Young people didn't want to go to a place that's all white," says Morrison. Practically everyone in Lewiston credits the Somalis' discovery of their town with much of its newfound success. "It's been an absolute blessing in many ways," says Badeau. "Just to have an infusion of diversity, an infusion of culture and of youth. Cultural diversity was the missing piece." The question is whether the rest of Maine—and other states like it—can find their own missing pieces. http://www.newsweek.com/id/180035?from=rss

^Cute! but it's not wise to post pictures of your family on the net sister, just some advice!

Originally posted by Abwaan: It has to be Somali...lol...Sayid Muxammed Cabdille Xasan (AUN)...lol http://www.doollo.com/mainpage/Sawiro/Sayid%20Cabd iKariim.jpg That's his son not Sayyid himself! so what exactly has his son done to be called a hero?

ps Marx if Somali men were losing their ''sense of self'' why then do foreign women complain about them being reserved(i.e only interested in Somali women?): http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200812 06184535AAmk8tY http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200811 13153346AANsJlh Even the most insecure bunch amongst us can't stop talking about 'Somali women' contrast this with the non-Somali males i have caught many times mimicking Somali men on several Somali forums when i was still a moderator there and banned them for badmouthing Somali women. You never see a Somali male doing that stuff on a foreign forum. These same guys have such a dislike for their own women that they want nothing to do with them hence their infatuation with women from other races, like i said before even the most insecure brothers amongst us seem to be only obsessed with their own kind

Ah shut up Marx, you beginning to sound like those clowns Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson with this ''it's not easy to be..'' bullcrap. Yeah there are Somali women with self hate just like there are Somali men with self hate(which community doesn't have those types?) but the majority are proud of who they are, and if this wasn't the case our large diasporic community would have disappeared ages ago. Somali North Americans especially the community in Minnesota are showing how strong and close-knit the ties between Somalis are. Majority are self employed, Somali students are performing well on school: North America ''Research by state officials shows that Somali immigrants have made big strides since 2000 in moving off welfare. A report examined families on welfare in the first quarter of 2003 and checked back with those families three years later. It found that 75 percent of Somalis statewide had either moved off welfare or were working more than 30 hours a week. The numbers in Olmsted County are even higher, with more than 83 percent of Somalis considered successful. "Somalis are coming in with significant barriers, so the fact that they are becoming self-sufficient is a testament to their determination," said Kristy Arend, development director for the Intercultural Mutual Assistance Association, a Rochester nonprofit agency that assists immigrants''- Somalis succeed in moving off welfare Somali Students are making progress in the US New Immigrants in Minnesota: The Somali Immigration and Assimilation [*] Somali student enrollment is the third highest compared to the Hmong,Laotion,Cambodian and the Spanish speakers in Minnesota. [*]Somali student drop out rate(12.7%) is higher than the Hmong students(5.9%) but much lower than the Spanish students(23%) [*]Somali students outperform the Hmong Chinese, the Cambodian and Spanish students in Math. [*]Somali students reading profiency of the English Language is the Highest of all immigrant groups in Minnesota. Journal of Developing Societies -Kebba Darboe Britain Immigration and Multiculturalism, Werner F Menski, social scientist Somali is now the majority home language for children in many London schools, and young Somalis are beginning to come through as university students, following young South Asians along trails that they seem to have blazed a decade or so ago. These new multicultural realities are not only making themselves felt at primary or secondary school level, therefore, they now affect life and work also in universities, where a new generation of the descendants of immigrants are coming up as top students, asking many questions that we never heard before. Somali Language Children as young as five should learn Polish, Afghan and even Somali under plans to shake up language learning. Children of five 'should be taught Somali in schools' By Laura Clark The Academic Rise of Somali students at the Tower Hamlets College Somali students are steadily climbing the Academic ladder at Tower Hamletss College with more students than ever taking A-level and vocational courses Somali_Student_Success The Changing Face of Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship in Britain new minority groups, emerging despite apparently strong immigration controls, are beginning to replace earlier communities in some places. For example in Southall, the heart of London’s Indian Sikh community, both Somali and Afghan enterprises have appeared. The Afghans occupy a number of large shops sub-divided into low-grade micro malls, mainly selling cheap clothing and household goods. The Somali businesses are on the southern fringe of the Southall shopping district; restaurants and cafés are the most prominent types of activities. In the 1980s, the premises currently occupied by Afghans and Somalis mainly accommodated Indian retailers *Off all the immigrant groups in Britain it's only the Chinese & Somali communities that score a ''high'' when it comes to supporting one another. All of the statistics i have posted here for you, would have been impossible if our community consisted of men with self doubt or women with self hate! In my opinion Marx you are the same as those clowns Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson who seek to make money on the backs of their community with this 'victim mentality'. Don't speak for Somali people, this new generation of Somali males and females are taking care of their business, instead just speak for yourself sxb!

Dumb topic! I have a real dislike for insecure men especially when they are Somali. Let's say 100 Somali women married reverts, that's like a drop in the Somali ocean, go ahead push it to 1000(Bull.Shh), wow ten drops!!. It's still insignificant number so what's with the ''ohh it must be because Somali men are this or because Somali men are that''talk?. Where do all these cute tiny Somali kids i see walking to school everyday come from if it's such a phenomenon?(it's been a phenomenon according to some insecure folk since the days when i was still in Daycare) Those who make these type of topics are either in the ''15 to 17 age category'' and hear all these bullshh stories about our sisters and therefore are alarmed and feel they will miss out hence why they dedicate entire topics to this non-existant issue. I can excuse these young brothers, because they have a myopic understanding of their surroundings,community and the world in general, but once they are older and actually meet someone they like this silly stuff will be gone(i was once one of them). The other group however which i call ''the gameless-no life having-single brothers are really pathetic in my opinion, always badmouthing, always backbiting, really bitter. I don't get how a grown man can talk for days about the lives of women not related to him.

welcome( ) to( ) SOL( ) enjoy( :mad: ) your( :eek: ) stay!!( )

Something very fishy about this! Why not open a Admas University in the many regions of Ethiopia that don't have universities? It's like Mogadishu University establishing a branch in Sudan and completely ignoring the rest of Somalia Somaliland has plenty of well established universities that could expand to other cities, it makes no sense to me.

Xiin you should pick up the ''Historical Dictionary of Somalia'' by Mohamed Haji Mukhtar. Though there are alot of inaccuracies when it comes to history and chronology in that book, the sections on Somali scholars however is spot on and extremely elaborate, with many names i can't remember.

Originally posted by S.O.S: quote:Originally posted by xiinfaniin: There was also Sheekh Zaylici whose bio I dont have. Appriciate if Abu Salman soo helo sheekha taariikhdiisa. Which Zaylici? Most of the great Somali scholars were nicknamed Zaylici or Jabarti after the special sections reserved for students from the Horn (these centuries Somalia was not defined as a region) at major learning centres of Islamic studies, such as that Riwaaq al-Jabartiya corner of al-Azhar at the time. There are even records of at least one Somali scholar who was sent to king Louis of France as part of a special diplomatic mission. Anyway, make note of this list: Sh. Cismaan Cali Zaylaci (a great scholar and author of Xanafi school of jurisprudence) Sh. Cabdullahi bin Yusuf bin Muxammad Zaylaci (a great muxaddith) Sh. Ali Jabarti (spent his intellectual life under the Mamluk dynasty) Sh. Muxiyiddin Sh. Cabdullahi al-Qaxtany (1789-1869, born and raised in Baraawe, Chief Qadhi and Chief Minister during the Omani Sultanate in Zanzibar, authored many books in Arabic and Swahili) Sh. Cali Suufi (does not need any reference)add to this: - Abd Al-Rahman bin Ahmad al-Zayla'i(1820-1882) founder of Zayla'iyya - Hassan Al-Jabarti(18th c.) astronomer,mathematician and scholar - Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti(19th c.)(Grand Historian of Mamluk Egypt) - Abdallah ibn Mu'allim Yusuf al-Qutbi(19th c.)(wrote many books that were published) - Sa'id Al Maqdishaw(14th century) Traveler(China,India) scholar(had audiences with the rulers of Makkah&Medina) Homework for you Xiinfaniin: there was a great scholar who studied in Baghdad (and maybe in Makkah as well) who came back to his family in the Bari region of Somalia, but then was chased away and he eventually settled in Baraawe. He authored possibly more books than any other Somali known in history. I'm ashamed not to know his full name, but I think it starts with Sh. Cali . Provide us some more information if you can. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uways_al-Barawi http://www.geocities.com/traditionalislam/shaykh_u ways_bin_muhammadalbaraawe.htm edit: I misread your post, i saw Baghdad&Baraawe and instantly thought of the great Sh. Uways Al Baraawe

Originally posted by Qalbi-Adeyg: quote:Originally posted by Adam-Zayla: Solar power is the future! With our hot climate we would be blessed with power for life Solar power is expensive though initially, but it's definitely the future energy in somalia if we are smart. I was reading an article a while back about a solar powered desalination plant in australia which was very interesting, something similar could done in somalia(puntland), but the problem is the cost is something around 300 million. Maybe in the future, because water will be a scarce resource soon and somali climate is perfect for solar power. It would be a piece of cake sxb, with a stable Somalia foreign direct investment would increase substantially and on top of that, with plenty of resources such as Oil&Uranium in the ground(if the revenues were handled responsibly) we could build twenty extra Solar fields all over Somalia and start exporting this same energy for money or stocks.

Who cares about Obama...? boooooo!!

It's dangerous though, one wrong 'No' could turn a 'would-be rocket scientist' into a crook and one right 'yes' could turn a 'would-be crook' into a Rocket scientist That was deep, I should copyright this, and publish it.

MF i wasn't trying to downplay SomGas which from the looks of it is a more environmentally friendly and less costly energy source. I was highlighting what Allah(swt) blessed us with, which is the Sun. Countries such as Spain are making full use of their climate, even the warmer states of the US have their Solar fields

''I am very very sad mommie. Is not fair to me, I am a princess." My daughter wanting to go to McDonald's after I told her No'' KK at moments such as the one above does a child's photographic memory kick in, trust me she will never forget that day you said ''No'' the way i still remember when i was refused a third ''Bikermice from Mars'' toy(the third brother). I never forgave my mother and if i had serial killer tendencies today she would be the FIRST to DIE!! lol kidding! but iska jiir just in case, you don't mess with a Princess!

Solar power is the future! With our hot climate we would be blessed with power for life

0:06 to 0:08 I like how he switched from guitar to piano in two seconds LMAO

LOL the Qing dynasty was still around when she was born.. ps who says she didn't have fun as a bachelorette?