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When I listen to the recitations of the late Sheikh Noreen Mohammed Siddiq, may Allah have mercy on him, I am met with waves of unrelenting nostalgia and melancholic yearning for a place and time that, for the most part, I am a stranger to. Slivers of time spent in a home away from home have left me with everlasting memories that shadow the moments that made them. The sound of my grandmother reciting Quran after praying Fajr. The chant…
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In the aftermath of this week’s AWS outage, I came across a series of related tweets that immediately caught my attention. I grabbed some tea, rubbed my hands together, put my glasses on, and began scrolling—a smile already spreading across my face. Making fun of accelerationist techno-fascists is one of my favourite pastimes. The first tweet that pulled me in came from Matteo Franceschetti—self-described “sleep nerd” and “biohacker”. Franceschetti is the CEO of Eight Sleep, a “sleep fitness” company that…
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“Hebel” is a placeholder in Somali, closest to “so-and-so” in English. When a poem begins with Hebel baa yidhi… the reciter signals that he is quoting someone else. When it opens with Hebelow! the poet is addressing the listener directly, an urgent “hey you, listen!” that sets the tone. The poem I’m sharing here was written by Maxamed Diriye, a companion of Sayid Maxamed Cabdulle Xasan. He composed it for his son, urging him to make effort in this life…
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Without the work of Somali archivists and historians on platforms like X, vital elements of our history and culture would face the very real danger of vanishing, quietly erased from collective memory. Not long ago, while going through some of my father’s papers, I came across a remarkable collection: documents from the Western Somali Liberation Front (WSLF), a nationalist movement that fought to liberate the Somali-inhabited Ogaden region from Ethiopian rule and unite it with Somalia. WSLF fighters rallying in…
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(06/06/2025 – please excuse old referenced articles, I began writing this the day of the attack and life got in the way) In 2010, we first saw a glimpse of what cyberwarfare could look like. The US (in collaboration with Israel) engineered Stuxnet, a malicious computer worm that caused damage to SCADA systems. Stuxnet was then deployed in Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility, sabotaging and disrupting the nation’s nuclear programme. At the time, it was both groundbreaking and worrying. Fast forward…
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Photos from Jannogaaban circa 2006. Jannogaaban translates to short/small heaven. “يا أهل الإسلام، الصمود يعني القرار، وجبن القلب يعني الفشل، وتأكدوا أن الصابرين هم الذين سينتصرون، وضعف القلب والجبن هما سببان للخيبة، وسيرى الله من يصبر هو المنتصر. على عدوه، فإن الله معه، ومن يثبت على حد السيف فهو منتصر للمستقبل، ولن يتعب بعد ذلك. وإذا سار مع الله يكون مسكنه أكثر “مُكرَّمٌ ومُعترف بجهوده، إن الله يحب الصابرين” – الإمام الغازي لقواته قبل معركة شمبرا كوري
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بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
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