Maxamed Daahir Afrax ( ) is a Somali

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and scholar.Rex S. O'Fahey, ''Handbuch der Orientalistik: Der Nahe und Mittlere Osten'', BRILL, 2003, p. 121

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*''Nadaraat fi Athaqaafah As-Soomaaliyah'' ('An Introduction to Somali Culture', in Arabic). ed. Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, by the Culture and Information Department, U.A.E. *''Maana-faay : qiso'' (a Somali novel) ed. London : Learning Design, 1997.(first published in 1981) (reportedly the first novel written in romanized Somali script) * ''Hal-Abuur : wargeys-xilliyeedka suugaanta & dhaqanka Soomaalida'', Hal-Abuur Journal / 1993 *''The 'Abwaan' as beacon : the centrality of the message in Somali literature with especial reference to the play 'Shabeelnaagoog, in: Horn of Africa / 2004 *New, extensively revised and expanded edition of his book in Somali, ''Dal Dad Waayey iyo Duni Damiir Beeshay: Soomaaliya Dib ma u Dhalan Doontaa?'', 2004 (A Land without Leaders in a World without Conscience: Can Somalia be Resurrected?) *''Ashakhsiyah Aturathiyah fi Shi'r Hadraawi'', in: Al-Hikmah, 135 (Feb.), pp. 44–50.1987 *''A Nation of Poets, or Art-loving People? Some Aspects of the Importance of Literature in Present-day Somali Society'', Hal-Abuur: Journal of Somali Literature and Culture, 1:2-4 (Autumn/Winter 1993/4), pp. 32–6., 1994 *''The Mirror of Culture: Somali Dissolution Seen Through Oral literature’, in Ahmed I. Samatar'' (ed.), The Somali Challenge: from Catastrophe to Renewal, Boulder, CO and London: Lynne Reinner, pp. 233–52., 1994

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Afrax, Maxamed Daahir Somalian novelists Somalian dramatists and playwrights Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Somali-language writers

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