Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 26, 2010 (SL Times) – An article by Yasin Jama Nuh (Suldaan) drew attention to an event that took place in London’s Oxford House.

The event was the publication of a book on the Somali poet Salan Muhammad Hirsi (Salan Arabey) that was written by Yusuf Osman Abdille (Sha'ir). Some of the writers, academic, and community leaders present were Muhammad Bashe, Martin Orwin, Jama Muse Jama, Rashid Sheikh Abdillahi Haji (Rashiid Gadhweyne), Ali Ahmed Rabi (Seenyo), Sheikh Mohamud Ahmed Dalmar, Faysal Anbalash, Said Jama, Beeldaaje, and Suldan Mohamud Haji Hussein Nur. Speaking about the great value and insights of Salan Arabey’s poetry, Rashid Sheikh Abdillahi said that he was told by the now defunct Somali Academy of Arts and Sciences that the reason Salan ‘Arabey was not included in the highest rank of Somali poets was because his poetry had a lot of foreign words and phrases, but that he found out while he was doing research for his own book on war and peace, that this claim was not true, and if he were asked today who is the leading Somali poet he would easily say Salan Arabey.

The evening was organized by Ayan Ashur of Kayd, an Oxford House based organization ( http://www.kayd.org/) and the book was published by Redsea Online (Pante Invisibile).

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