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born 1977 Somalia

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These are among the best prehistoric paintings in the world.

It is eminently uplifting to construct your home as a way of dealing with loss.

Sometimes the cattle are represented as necks or horns, a pictorial shorthand that was evidently sufficient to convey meaning.

Somaliland is an Islamic country. How do people react to your work?

Your country has so many problems: hunger, poverty, drought, war. In such difficult times, is there still room for an archaeologist to work?

Beautiful Somali buildings are rising up in a former war zone. It gives me hope.

The international community does not recognize Somaliland. How does this affect your work?

The child that tiire doesn't give you, God won't give you either.’ The role of Rotheca myricoides in Somali fertility practices

What does your family say about this?

What can antiquity offer the present?

How do you prepare for your trip?

Why did you become an archaeologist? You are a beautiful woman, did you not want to be a model like other famous Somali women - Iman or Waris Dirie?

We never planned to live like that, later, as it happened, we became refugees and ended up internally displaced in what would have otherwise seemed like barren landscapes.

I first learned to construct nomadic huts with my grandmother in the summer holidays – spent, whether I liked or not, living in Dayniile, near Mogadishu.

Yet Somaliland is a country whose history is totally hidden. With wars, droughts and piracy in Somalia, hardly anyone has researched the archaeology until now. But it's absolutely full of extraordinarily well-preserved rock art.

How did you find these paintings?

Being a Mogadishu girl, living in a comfortable villa, I hated it at first so my father sent, as a surprise, a tiny battery-run TV, which transformed our evenings at the nomadic camp.

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