Said Salah Ahmed

Said Salah Ahmed studied biology at a teacher training institute, then taught for a long time in his country, where he headed a secondary school and a teacher training college. A poet and playwright known throughout Somalia, he had written and staged several plays before turning to film. After the start of the civil war, he went in 1996 to Minnesota, where he taught at a college, then Somali at the University of Minnesota. In 2005 he received the Virginia McKnight Binger Award for his work in the service of others.

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• CinemaThe Somali DervishSaid Salah Ahmed · 1985Cinema