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Birmingham: Somali Art and Cultural Festival
Monday Bank Holiday, 28th December 2009 -
2p.m – 11pm, | Fee £10

Bia Lounge, 45 -47 Golden Hillock Road, Small Heath, Birmingham B10 OJU

Refugee Advice Group [Birmingham] in partnership with Kayd Somali Arts and Culture, and other Somali community organizations will facilitate the first Birmingham Somali Art and Culture Festival on 28th December 2009 from 2pm to Midnight at Bia Lounge, 45 -47 Golden Hillock Road, Small Heath, Birmingham B10 OJU.
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POLITICS OF CAIN
One Hundred Years of Crises in Somali Politics
Monday 21 December 2009
6.30pm – 8.30pm

UCL, Roberts G08 Sir David Davies Lecture Theatre
Roberts Building, London WC1E 7JE
(entrance off Torrington Place – directly opposite Waterstones bookshop on the corner of Torrington Pl and Gower St.)
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Kayd Somali Arts & Culture in partnership with Somaliland Focus (UK) invites you to the launch of a new book. Come and join us on the launch day to discuss this new book with the author: Professor HUSSEIN A. BULHAN. The world has come to know the anarchy, war & death in Somalia from newspapers & TV reports. Those who wish to understand the causes of this cataclysmic explosion of violence & implosion of rage must delve into Somali history from the late nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. This event offers an opportunity to debate, discuss and ask direct questions about the book and its challenging subject matter.

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Kayd Somali Arts and Culture in partnership with Somaliland Focus (UK) invite you to a screening of the documentary entitled “Yuu tuke baal caddi ka hadhin”. This will be the first time the film will be shown in the public. The documentary calls for a radical rethinking of what happened in Hargeysa in 1988, showing live military footage of action against innocent civilians in Hargeysa, with a full account from a survivor.Q&A session will immediately follow with the film’s subjects and film-maker

Event: Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, London, E2 6GH
Date: Sunday, December 20, 2009
Time: 18.00-20.00

POLITICS OF CAIN One Hundred Years of Crises in Somali Politics
H. A. Bulhan, 2009

Kayd Somali Arts & Culture is inviting you to the launch of a new book. Come and join us on the launch day to discuss this new book with the author: Professor HUSSEIN A. BULHAN. An opportunity of a lifetime where you will have the chance to debate, discuss and ask direct questions about the book. The World has come to know the anarchy, war & death in Somalia from newspapers & TV reports. The book gives those who wish to understand the causes of this cataclysmic explosion of violence & implosion of rage must delve into Somali history from late nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century.

When: Sunday 20/12/09 from 2pm — 6pm
Where: Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, Bethnal Green, London E2 6HG
Contact: Ayan Mohamoud on 07903712949 or ayan_mahamoud@kayd.org
Abdiqani Osman Sabban on 07947151754 or abghani@hotmail.co.uk

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