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		<title>Diana: The poisonous beauty secrete /A national icon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a another national image of Hargeisa, right next to the emotionally insane that earn a living on the streets, the qaat huts every few meters and the emergency vehicles that carry the life saving drug ‘qaat’. Yes, Diana is a very popular national mark, not the belated Princess of Wales, Diana. This is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ibtisam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1032832&amp;post=96&amp;subd=ibtisam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fashion and lifestyle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My struggles, failures and success in Somaliland can be personified by my experience and journey with clothing and fashion in Somaliland. Prior to moving to Somaliland personal fashion (dressing) did not take visible energy, effort or thought process. I was a wash&#38; go sort of person, never followed trends (although I’d like to think I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ibtisam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1032832&amp;post=90&amp;subd=ibtisam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Positivity and having the right mind frame!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naturally being out of your comfort zone, regular environment and moving to any country will bring out the judgmental and critical side of you, as your system takes a while to adjust to a new society, their norms and customs. In Somaliland, foreigners and Diaspora Somalis gravitate towards each other to exchange stories of old [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ibtisam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1032832&amp;post=86&amp;subd=ibtisam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All week since posting my last blog briefly touching upon the contributions of NGOs/ INGOs and the rigidity in their cultural as well as their refusal- either directly or indirectly to work and support the government and institutions rather than undermining them, I have been locked in discussions and debates with people in that sector [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ibtisam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1032832&amp;post=78&amp;subd=ibtisam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hargesia Group Hospital &amp; NGOs/INGOs in Somaliland</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For two weeks now, I along with 15-20 Diaspora Somalis, NGO workers and University Teachers have been volunteering our only day off at Hargesia Group Hospital, mainly to clean and bring up the standard of the hospital. Currently under a new management, the aim is to make big improvements- very fast. Last Friday we removed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ibtisam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1032832&amp;post=71&amp;subd=ibtisam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Somaliland expat community really make a difference?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Somaliland expat community is still relatively young but it is growing. Many people predominately men are returning to Somaliland to establish business and explore other options. Some are on a money making scheme with the sole purpose to get rich by any means- I know some of you are thinking that going to an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ibtisam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1032832&amp;post=65&amp;subd=ibtisam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When are you going back?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The art of people watching and the accompanying commentary is rift in most of the developing world. I remember how uncomfortable I was in India with all the pointing and staring and how intimidating it can be for none confrontational Londoner abiding by the policy of live and let live. But at least in India [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ibtisam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1032832&amp;post=63&amp;subd=ibtisam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women &amp; Men</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I started blogging from Somaliland, as usual my blogs (like any other blog) centers around my experience and opinions, of course it is a given that some people will find them offensive (and rightly so). However when so many people take the time to e-mail about the same thing, essentially complaining about my “bias [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ibtisam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1032832&amp;post=56&amp;subd=ibtisam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Khutba (Sermon)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Friday in Somaliland is the like the Sunday of the West (well ancient West); a family day, a relaxing, eating, cooking day, but it is also a day of prayer and public address. From 11.30am till 12.30pm, each and every mosque is delivering a sermon to the several hundreds of local worshippers who have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ibtisam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1032832&amp;post=53&amp;subd=ibtisam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The clan of the happily singles</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Living in Somaliland, more than anywhere else makes you more aware of your unmarried status, your husband is your facial recognition, your address book, your guarantor, the condition to your recognition and acknowledgement, the centre of your social status and the bread and butter of your business life. People will ask you for your husband’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ibtisam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1032832&amp;post=50&amp;subd=ibtisam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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