The official home of Mohamed Abdi Aynab

Stories that remember.
Ideas that endure.

Discover the work of a Somali author, researcher and translator writing about history, justice, resilience and the courageous road to forgiveness.

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AuthorSomali history & memory
ResearcherCulture & state-building
TranslatorIdeas across languages
Mohamed Abdi Aynab
Featured memoir CIIL Iyo Cafis Suffering • Justice • Forgiveness
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The power of memory
“If you do not know your history, you cannot guide your future.”

Mohamed Abdi Aynab writes to preserve the stories that shape a people. His work meets difficult history with honesty and searches within it for meaning, dignity and hope.

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Books with a long memory

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CIIL Iyo Cafis Featured
Somali · Paperback

CIIL Iyo Cafis

A powerful Somali memoir of imprisonment, resilience, justice and forgiveness.

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Portrait of Mohamed Abdi Aynab Author · Engineer · Researcher · Translator
A life shaped by history

Writing through pain,
toward understanding.

His best-known memoir, CIIL Iyo Cafis, recounts imprisonment during the era of President Mohamed Siad Barre. It is both witness and reflection: an intimate examination of injustice, endurance and forgiveness.

01 Justice 02 Resilience 03 Forgiveness 04 Somali history
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