Shirin Ramzanali Fazel

Shirin Ramzanali Fazel was born in 1953 in Mogadishu, to a Somali mother and a Pakistani father, at the time when Italy administered Somalia, and studied at the Italian school of the city. In 1971, she settled with her husband in Novara, then lived with her family in Zambia, the United States, Kenya, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia, before settling in 2010 in Birmingham, where she began to write in English. A novelist and poet, she also published in 2023, with Simone Brioni, an essay on Islam and the diaspora.

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• NarrativeFar from MogadishuLontano da MogadiscioShirin Ramzanali Fazel · 1994Literature