Are both Nuruddin Farah and Rachel Carson Somali novelists?
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Nuruddin Farah Nuruddin Farah (Somali: "Nuuradiin Faarax" , Arabic: نورالدين فارح‎ ‎ ) (born 24 November 1945) is a Somali novelist. He has also written plays both for stage and radio, as well as short stories and essays. Since leaving Somalia in the 1970s he has lived and taught in numerous countries, including the United States, England, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Sudan, India, Uganda, Nigeria and South Africa.
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Rachel Carson Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose book "Silent Spring" and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.
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Nasteh Dahir Nasteh Dahir Farah (1972 or 1973 – June 7, 2008) was a Somali reporter, and vice-president of the National Union of Somali Journalists. He was murdered in Kismayo, Somalia, on June 7, 2008.
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Zamzam Mohamed Farah Zamzam Mohamed Farah (born 19 March 1991) is a Somali female athlete from Mogadishu who competes in the Women's 400m. She was one of only two Somali athletes in the London 2012 Games.
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Far'a Far'a or al-Fari'ah (Arabic: مخيّم الفارعة‎ ‎ ) is a Palestinian refugee camp in the foothills of the Jordan Valley in the northwestern West Bank, located 12 kilometers south of Jenin and 2 kilometers south of Tubas, three kilometers northwest of Tammun and 17 kilometers northeast of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the camp had a population of 5,750 refugees in 2006, however, the UNRWA has recorded a population of 7,244 registered refugees.
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Rachel Johnson Rachel Sabiha Johnson (born 3 September 1965) is a British editor, journalist, television presenter, and author based in London.
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Musharraf Ali Farooqi Musharraf Ali Farooqi (born 26 July 1968, Hyderabad, Pakistan) is a Pakistani–Canadian writer, translator, and essayist. Farooqi was among the five writers shortlisted for Asia's most prestigious literary prize in 2012. He is the Founder/Editor of URDU THESAURUS (http://urduthesaurus.com) which is provided as a free educational resource featuring only synonyms. Planned features for versions include integrated Urdu-to-Urdu lexicons, bilingual dictionaries, and dictionaries of antonyms, idioms and proverbs.
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Radheshyam Sharma Radheshyam Sharma (Gujarati: રાધેશ્યામ શર્મા) is a Gujarati language poet, novelist, short story writer, critic and compiler from Gujarat, India. He is known in Gujarati literature for his experimental novels "Fero" (1968) and "Swapnatirtha" (1979). His other significant works include "Aansu Ane Chandaranu" (1963) and "Gujarati Navalkatha" (with Raghuvir Chaudhari; 1974), a critical works on Gujarati novels. He received Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak in 2004 and Dhanji Kanji Gandhi Suvarna Chandrak in 1995.
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Zahra Freeth Zahra Dickson Freeth (1925 - 20th May 2015) is a British author, the daughter of H. R. P. Dickson (died 1959) and Dame Violet Dickson (died January 4, 1991), who has written several books on the Middle East.
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Hamiduddin Farahi Hamiduddin Farahi (18 November 1863– 11 November 1930) was a celebrated Islamic scholar of South Asia known for his groundbreaking work on the concept of "nazm", or coherence, in the Qur'an. He was instrumental in producing scholarly work on the theory that the verses of the Quran are interconnected in such a way that each surah, or chapter, of the Qu'ran forms a coherent structure, having its own central theme, which he called "umood". He also started writing his own exegesis, or "tafsir" of the Quran which was left incomplete on his death in 1930. The "muqaddimah", or introduction to this is an important work on the theory of "Nazm-ul-Quran".
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Samah Sabawi Samah Sabawi (Arabic: سماح السبعاوي‎ ‎ ; 1967) is a Palestinian-Australian-Canadian writer, commentator, author and playwright. She has written and produced the plays "Cries from the Land" (2003) and "Three Wishes" (2008), both successfully received in Canada. In 2014, Sabawi completed a sold-out season of the play "Tales of a City by the Sea", which had an Arabic production by Al Rowwad Theatre in Palestine and an English production by La Mama Theatre in Melbourne, Australia.
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Daud Rahbar Daud Rahbar (1926 – 5 October 2013) was a scholar of comparative religions, Arabic, Persian, Urdu literature and Indian classical music. Rahbar is regarded as accomplished essayist, poet, composer, short story writer, translator, philosopher, contributor to inter-civilization dialogue, musicologist, drummer, singer and guitarist. He translated his own Urdu works to English, such as "The Cup of Jamshid: A Collection of Ghazal Poetry" and then translated the "Urdu letters of Mirzā Asadu'lldh Khān Ghālib".
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Hassan Abshir Farah Hassan Abshir Farah (Somali: "Xasan Xaraami" , Arabic: حسن ابشير فرح‎ ‎ ) (born June 20, 1945) is a veteran Somali politician. He previously served as mayor of Mogadishu and interior minister of Puntland. From November 12, 2001 to December 8, 2003, he was also prime minister of Somalia. Farah is an MP in the Federal Parliament of Somalia.
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Sulekha Ali Sulekha Ali (Somali: "Suleekha Cali" , Arabic: زليخة علي‎ ‎ ) is a Somali-Canadian musician. Based in Ottawa, she attended Carleton University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Hons) degree in Human Rights. Her choice of tertiary studies has significantly influenced her music, which is noted for its thoughtful, socially conscious lyrics.
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Yasir Abdel Baqi Yasir Abdel Baqi (born 1972) is a Yemeni novelist, screenwriter, journalist and author. He was born in Aden and studied history and antiquities at university. His first book of short stories was called "Ahlam" (Dreams) followed by a collection called "Night Woman". His controversial novel "Zahavar" appeared in 2008.
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Austin Bukenya Austin Bukenya (born 10 February 1944) is a Ugandan poet, playwright, novelist and academic. He is the author of the novel "The People's Bachelor", and a play, "The Bride". He has taught languages, literature and drama at Makerere University in Uganda and universities in the UK, Tanzania and Kenya since the late 1960s. He has also held residences at universities in Rwanda and Germany. Bukenya is also a literary critic, novelist, poet and dramatist. An accomplished stage and screen actor, he was for several years Director of the Creative and Performing Arts Centre at Kenyatta University, Nairobi.
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Hollows (series) The Hollows series (also called the Rachel Morgan series) is a series of thirteen mystery novels, eight short stories, two graphic novels, and one compendium resource by Kim Harrison, published by HarperCollins Publishers, in an urban fantasy alternate history universe and set primarily in the city of Cincinnati and its suburbs. The alternate history is built upon two premises: the recent open existence of magical and supernatural species, primarily witches, vampires, and werewolves, with the human population; and the historical investment of Cold War military spending in genetic engineering as opposed to the Space Race, which resulted in the accidental release of a genetically modified tomato in the 1960s that killed a significant portion of the human population. The series is set approximately forty years after this plague, referred to as 'The Turn' within the series.
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Rayah Kitule Rayah Kitule (born 31 January 1984) is a Tanzanian author and editor of numerous monthly magazines including "Fab Sugar", and "East African Women and Business Entrepreneurs". She has done numerous writing assignments in Tanzania and abroad.
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Nur-eldeen Masalha Nur-eldeen (Nur) Masalha (Arabic: نور مصالحة‎ ‎ ; born 4 January 1957, Galilee, Israel) is a Palestinian writer and academic.
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Maryam Sullivan Maryam “Umm Juwayriyah” Sullivan is an American Muslim poet, novelist, playwright, journalist and performance artist. Sullivan’s novel "The Size of a Mustard Seed" is the first published Islamic Urban fiction title.
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Rashid Jahan Rashid Jahan (1905–1952) was an Indian writer who inaugurated a new era of Urdu literature written by women. She wrote short-stories and plays and is perhaps best remembered for her involvement with the explosive "Angaaray" (1931), a collection of groundbreaking and unconventional short stories written by young writers in Urdu like Sajjad Zaheer and Ahmed Ali.
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Nur ibn Mujahid Nur ibn Mujahid ibn ‘Ali ibn ‘Abdullah al Dhuhi Suha (Harari አሚር ኑር, Somali: Nuur ibn Muujahiid, Arabic: نور بن مجاهد السمروني) (literally, "Light"; died 1567), of the Ahl Suhawyan clan of the Somali tribe of Marehan Darod. He was known for marrying the widow of Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi (also known as Ahmed Gurey and Ahmad Gragn), he also succeeded Imam Ahmad as leader of the Muslim forces fighting Christian Ethiopia.