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Excerpt from the book.

“My name is Ahmed.”
“And your father’s name?”
“His name is Ali. But everybody calls him Mooryaan.”
James puts on the delightful smile of a man determined to redeem himself. “Mooryaan is a beautiful name, isn’t it?”
“My dad is a beautiful man.”
“A beautiful name for a handsome man.”
“My dad is handsome, a man’s man.”

“My father is famous in Mogadishu,” Ahmed says.
James asks, “What is your father famous for?”
“You say his name, everybody knows him.”
Pressing, he repeats, “But what’s he famous for?”
“Mooryaan is just a nickname.”
“But what does Mooryaan mean, in Somali?”
“Just a nickname between him and his friends,” Ahmed explains. “He is good-looking, and is now powerful, rich, and blessed with fifteen children— twelve boys, three girls—and four wives. Mooryaan is his famous nickname.”

Lool the part he says Mooryan is a beautiful name kills me, Nuruddin's sending for Habar Gidir, or maybe its all banter. What clan is he?

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/ ... al_twitter

I despise this guy
he is a latte liberal and pan africanist scum
Farah is a court jester of western liberal literati

Wa gashin socda, he has perverted believes like conformity of Africa ( bal firi the cover of his new book)

This guy is a relic of our colonial past and propagates orientalism

Farah won Neustadt International price in Germany, the birth place of orientalism, how befitting

daa odayga hariyoodo hadaldalmee.

One of the few true intellectuals we have!!!

What people don't understand is that his novels are fictional; the characters/scenes are contemporary somalia/somalis.

JaalleMarx wrote:One of the few true intellectuals we have!!!

No offense but there is nothing intellectual about that piece of text Jamaal posted. All i got from that badly written piece is:

Mooryaan is my dad's nickname
Everybody knows him by that nickname
Mooryaan is beautiful
My dad is beautiful
He is very very beautiful

If i didn't know better i would've thought ninka cadaanka ayuu aabihiis u xayeeysiinayyaa.

Cherine wrote:

JaalleMarx wrote:One of the few true intellectuals we have!!!

No offense but there is nothing intellectual about that piece of text Jamaal posted. All i got from that badly written piece is:

Mooryaan is beautiful
My dad is beautiful
He is very very beautiful

If i didn't know better i would've thought ninka cadaanka inuu aabihiis u xayeeysiinayyo.

Dear Cherine,

He is an author after all. It is fiction. Let us read the whole book before, we come to premature conclusions based on excerpts.

"Beautiful" might not be what we make it to be.

My favourite books; Naked needle and from a croocked rib.

Typhoon wrote:I despise this guy
he is a latte liberal and pan africanist scum
Farah is a court jester of western liberal literati

Wa gashin socda, he has perverted believes like conformity of Africa ( bal firi the cover of his new book)

This guy is a relic of our colonial past and propagates orientalism

Farah won Neustadt International price in Germany, the birth place of orientalism, how befitting

FAH1223 wrote:

Typhoon wrote:I despise this guy
he is a latte liberal and pan africanist scum
Farah is a court jester of western liberal literati

Wa gashin socda, he has perverted believes like conformity of Africa ( bal firi the cover of his new book)

This guy is a relic of our colonial past and propagates orientalism

Farah won Neustadt International price in Germany, the birth place of orientalism, how befitting

i am not fan of him either. but i have a whole different reasons.

I've captured no enlightenment by what this third writer wrote. It appears so c-list writing type of material..

I'm not suprused that JaaleMarx supports this guy because at the end of the day both guys have stray far off the believe of Islam, both think they are enlightened and modernity lies within the corrupt western definition of "independent thoughts" and one must always "question higher being".

Seriously??? I don't know whether to laugh or cry. This is NOT writing. This is a third grade boy trying to write a composition, mistaken for an essay, masquerading a novel. Wow. Walaahi, any fool can write and publish I guess. Democracy has won. If I am not mistaken, he is an Ogaden, right? Why is he glorifying an insulting, derogatory term like 'Moryaan'? I mean, that word--among us 'contemporary' Somalis is equal to the word 'Ni.gger" . Yep, I know -- I am not laughing, nor crying, but disgusted.

Daroods.

FieldMarshalMenace wrote:I've captured no enlightenment by what this third writer wrote. It appears so c-list writing type of material..

I'm not suprused that JaaleMarx supports this guy because at the end of the day both guys have stray far off the believe of Islam, both think they are enlightened and modernity lies within the corrupt western definition of "independent thoughts" and one must always "question higher being".

I love the works of Nuruddin. He is a somali intellectual. Maybe the only one we have. You have been listening to too much fadhi-ku-dirir. Have you read his books?

It will not be long before he becomes the first somali to recieve the Nobel prize in literature.

Noolow Nurrudiin!

I take that back. It's a horrible piece to be placed in the New-Yorker. I don't think I would really want to work through his literature.

JamalAddow wrote:Excerpt from the book.

“My name is Ahmed.”
“And your father’s name?”
“His name is Ali. But everybody calls him Mooryaan.”
James puts on the delightful smile of a man determined to redeem himself. “Mooryaan is a beautiful name, isn’t it?”
“My dad is a beautiful man.”
“A beautiful name for a handsome man.”
“My dad is handsome, a man’s man.”

“My father is famous in Mogadishu,” Ahmed says.
James asks, “What is your father famous for?”
“You say his name, everybody knows him.”
Pressing, he repeats, “But what’s he famous for?”
“Mooryaan is just a nickname.”
“But what does Mooryaan mean, in Somali?”
“Just a nickname between him and his friends,” Ahmed explains. “He is good-looking, and is now powerful, rich, and blessed with fifteen children— twelve boys, three girls—and four wives. Mooryaan ishis famous nickname.”

Lool the part he says Mooryan is a beautiful name kills me, Nuruddin's sending for Habar Gidir, or maybe its all banter. What clan is he?

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/ ... al_twitter

Hahahaha ma iga hubtaa hee inoo hg ugu danleyahay

This is the clown jabardi who wrote that is stuff to insult HG.

His names Nuradin Farah.



He wrote many other insults and fake war history against HG.

This Jabardi guy is well known to his writimg of fake jabardi Arab clan history and fake nobals.