She never married a man, yet she gave birth to thousands of children. She was a shepherdess, but never sheared sheep. Her flock was words and ideas, shared each day and shelved each night....
While February 21 seemed like any other cold, winter day on Lisbon Street, it marked the return of Dr. Sa'id (SAÂ-eed) Mohamud, a Somalia-born man most frequently found at the Lisbon Street Mogadishu Store owned and operated by his wife, Shukri Abasheikh.
Mohamud spent nearly three months in Africa, visiting Somalia and other countries spreading the word of The People Party, a political party that he chairs, looking to bring -democracy to his native land.
As the crisp golden light of the afternoon waned to the indigo of dusk through the bedroom window, I begrudgingly acknowledged I still had two walls to go. Half the room was an eerie pale gray with tiny shreds of stubborn yellowed paper still adhered to it; the other half was still plastered with an '80s-inspired floral wallpaper on beige background...
