Somali snack

shaah (tea with camel milk and sugar) and delicious fried treats

Tea with my tutors

Ayan, Yasmin, Catherine and Nimco

Yasmin

Breakfast with my brothers!

Laas Gaal

naasa hablood hills.
Encompasses nomadic village.

complex granite caves and rock shelters

famous for cave paintings.
the earliest known rock art in the horn of africa
~9000 BC

color! shopping somali-style

woman of war.

peace building

institute of peace and conflict studies
university of hargeisa, somaliland
"quantum peace" course by dr. victoria fontan (upeace, costa rica)

fellow students include two members of parliament, army generals, UN staff, lawyers and NGO staff. and me.