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    list of Arabic language academies. Some are officially named "Academy of the Arabic Language", "Arabic Language Academy", or something else. House of Wisdom...
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    Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The ISO assigns language codes to 32 varieties of Arabic, including its standard form of Literary...
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    Mogadishu has a long history, which ranges from the ancient period up until the present, serving as the capital of the Sultanate of Mogadishu in the 9th-13th...
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  • is a list of bodies that consider themselves to be authorities on standard languages, often called language academies. Language academies are motivated...
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    Prior to the Somali civil war, Mogadishu still had an Italian-language school, but was later destroyed by the conflict. English is widely taught in schools...
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    communities forming in parts of the Middle East, North America and Europe. Constitutionally, Somali and Arabic are the two official languages of Somalia. Somali...
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    Mogadishu (Somali: Muqdisho, popularly Xamar; Arabic: مقديشو) is the largest city in Somalia and the nation's capital. Located in the coastal Benadir...
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    Garoonka Caalamiga Ee Aadan Cadde, Arabic: مطار آدم عدي الدولي) (IATA: MGQ, ICAO: HCMM), formerly known as Mogadishu International Airport, is an international...
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  • Shire Jama Ahmed (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    different kind of schooling. He started attending local language schools where his peers were learning Arabic and English. While in Mogadishu, he also took...
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    Mohamed Farrah Aidid (category Battle of Mogadishu (1993))
    declared himself president of Somalia. He was killed the following year in Mogadishu on 1 August 1996, aged 61. Aidid was born in 1934 in Beledweyne, Italian...
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    visit Mogadishu, the then pre-eminent city of the "Land of the Berbers" (بلد البربر Bilad al-Barbar, the medieval Arabic term for the Horn of Africa)...
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    years later. In May 1986, Barre suffered serious injuries in a car crash near Mogadishu, when the car transporting him smashed into the back of a bus during...
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    lawlessness in Somalia. The residents of Mogadishu were reportedly happy with the authority of the Islamic Courts Union's. There were fewer guns on the streets...
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    Ifrah Ahmed (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    Ifrah Ahmed was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1989. At the age of eight years old, Ahmed underwent enforced circumcision at the hands of a family member who...
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    In addition to Somali, Arabic is an official national language of Somalia. Many Somalis speak it due to centuries-old ties with the Arab World, the far-reaching...
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    Hadrawi (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    Radio Mogadishu. In Mogadishu, he both attended and later taught at the Lafoole University (Afgooye). He also worked for the government's Department of Information...
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  • Yamyam (category Mogadishu University alumni)
    graduated from Mogadishu University, producing his first work when he was 18 years old. He was Muslim, following the predominant religion in Somalia. He...
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  • Hassan Dahir Aweys (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    al-Islamiya from 1991. After the effective dissolution of Al-Itihaad in 1997, he became the head of an Islamic Court in north Mogadishu and eventually rose to...
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    Hassan Abshir Farah (category Mayors of Mogadishu)
    Arabic: حسن ابشير فرح; June 20, 1945 – July 12, 2020) was a Somali politician. He previously served as mayor of Mogadishu and interior minister of Puntland...
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  • Arab cinema or Arabic cinema (Arabic: السينما العربية, romanized: al-sīnemā al-ʿArabīyah) refers to the film industry of the Arab world. Most productions...
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    Barawa (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    بَرَأَاوٖ Baraawe, Arabic: ﺑﺮﺍﻭة Barāwa, Italian: Brava), also known as Barawe and Brava, is the capital of the South West State of Somalia. It functions...
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  • trade, the Mogadishu Sultanate and Ajuran Sultanate both centered around the port town Mogadishu, but also the port towns of Barawe and Merca. In the late...
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    months of training at the National Police Academy in Mogadishu, those who passed an examination would serve two years on the force. After the recruits...
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  • Mohamed Haji Mukhtar (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    Somali National University SNU, Mogadishu, Somalia. The only college that the medium of instruction was English and Arabic. He taught Middle Eastern History...
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    Muse Hassan Sheikh Sayid Abdulle (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    Turin, Italy – 1961–63 Modena Military Academy, Modena, Italy – 1959–61 Scuola Media Superiore (High School), Mogadishu – 1955–59 Commander, 60th Division...
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    Muse Bihi Abdi (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    as the air force's main base in Mogadishu. From 1981 to 1985 Muse Bihi received further military training in the United States, including at the Wright-Patterson...
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    Said Qorshel (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    Training Academy at the Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu. The event was also attended by Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed, the Minister of Finance...
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    Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    clan of the larger Majeerteen Harti Darod clan. For his post-secondary education, Ahmed studied law at the Somali National University in Mogadishu. He...
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    Siad Barre (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    the capital city, Mogadishu. By 1958 he reached the rank of major whilst being the head of the security forces, including the executive director of the...
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    Somali Navy (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    personnel were training in Mogadishu, with their training expected to finish in December 2009. They were reported as the first batch of a 5000 strong navy...
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