Ahmed, Ali Jimale
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Name (Latin)
Ahmed, Ali Jimale
Other forms of name
Ahmed Cali Jimcaale
Ahmed Nur Ali Jumali
Ali Jimale Ahmed
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Poetry
Occupation
Authors
College teachers
Poets
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Somali scholar, poet, and critic Ali Jimale Ahmed passed away on March 31, age 71; Dr. Ahmed; worked in Somalia in journalism and radio, as contributing editor at Vigilance (Somalia's then only English-language weekly newspaper) and hosted a weekly radio program, Writing and Writers; arrived in New York on December 30, 1982, and began graduate study the following year at UCLA, where he also served as editor-in-chief of Ufahamu, 1987-1989; in his best-known work, The Invention of Somalia, he revisited assumptions about ethnic homogeneity, origins of Somali identity, the role of Islam, history of the Benadir coast, representation of women, and conditions of Bantu communities ( (Geeska website, On the passing of Dr. Ali Jimale Ahmed, 1 April 2026, viewed April 2, 2026) )
- Wikipedia, April 2, 2026(Ahmed Ali Jimale (Somali: Ahmed Cali Jimcaale); native name: Aḥmad Nūr ʻAlī Jumʻālī [Arabic script], Ahmed Nur Ali Jumali; born April 17, 1954, Mogadishu, Somalia; died 31 March 2026, New York); nationality: Somali; citizenship: Somali and Djibouti)
- Wikipedia, viewed July 17, 2014(Ali Jimale Ahmed; Somali poet, essayist, scholar, and short story writer; holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); current and former chair of Comparative Literature at Queens College; teaches courses in African, Middle Eastern, and European literature at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York)
- The invention of Somalia, 1995:CIP t.p. (Ali Jimale Ahmed)