My condolences to the family of Mohamed Said Gees, a respected politician and academic, who played a vital role in Somaliland’s peace and state-building processes, who passed today. My thoughts are with his family and loved ones during this difficult time.

❤️

Taste of Cherry (1997) / Abbas Kiarostami

Just started reading Problems of Women's Liberation: A Marxist Approach by Evelyn Reed, and so far it's interesting.

For sure.

Cormac McCarthy’s personal library.

Just a simple moment, but full of meaning. 🎉 #graduated #LLB

How it started vs. How it's going

Afar sano oo xiisahooda leh ayay ahaayeen! Intani waa in ka mid ah, wixii aynu kala hadhnay:

Buugaagtu waxa ay u horreeyaan hadyadaha ugu qiimaha badan ee la isu hadyeeyo. Waa nuqullo saaxiib qiimo badani inoo soo hadyeeyay. Waxa hal meel ku kulmay: Said, Achebe, wa Thiong'o' iyo Anta Diop. Waa odayo dunideenna dhif ku ahaa oo dhaxal dhif ahna inooga tegay.

"The distance between dreams and reality is called discipline." | Paulo Coelho

"What does procrastination tell us about ourselves?" newyorker.com/magazine/2010/…

"Today, over 50 countries in the Global South, including Haiti and Congo, are trapped in a $1 trillion debt crisis. But this is by design....." youtu.be/j60coqGKqck?si…

The Socialist Politics of Tupac Shakur jacobin.com/2025/09/tupac-…

[...] The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was, famously, not a fan of William Shakespeare. He wrote in 1946 that “Shakespeare's similes are, in the ordinary sense, bad.” But Wittgenstein’s opinion was not only one fuelled by aesthetic dislike. iai.tv/articles/shake…

حالياً أقرأ...

I haven’t recently come across any excellent papers on legal philosophy...

Fortune favours the brave.

Noam Chomsky and José Mujica's co-authored book, "Surviving the 21st Century," is out now from Verso Books. Here's snippet of the Uruguayan revolutionary and statesman's writings. jacobin.com/2025/05/pepe-m…

John Searle obituary theguardian.com/world/2025/oct…