• SOMALIA - Interview with author Shugri Said Salh

  • Sep 23 2021
  • Length: 54 mins
  • Podcast

SOMALIA - Interview with author Shugri Said Salh

  • Summary

  • Season 03 Episode 03 of the Intralingo World Lit Podcast

    I hope you will enjoy this soulful, shifting, emotional –and fun!–  conversation with author Shugri Said Salh about her memoir, The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert.

    ~Lisa

    Lisa Carter
     Founder & Creative Director, Intralingo Inc.

     

    00:00:11 – Introduction

    00:02:11 – Our shared humanity

    00:09:48 – Childhood as a nomad in the desert of Somalia

    00:16:45 – Connection to storytelling

    00:23:24 – Universal theme and the hardest chapter to write

    00:26:18 – An aha moment

    00:30:22 – The refugee experience

    00:36:26 – Skating, on the river and through life

    00:41:01 – The price of trauma and need for closure

    00:44:26 – Healing through storytelling

    00:48:08 – Supporting and hearing one another

     

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    Shugri talks about the audio version, read by a Kenyan actress, with proverbs recited and songs sung by Shugri herself. Check that out for sure!

     

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