I enjoy speaking at and moderating events, and do so regularly all over the world. I appear at literature festivals, conferences, summits and other public and private events, including The Hay Festival, The Jaipur Literature Festival, Chatham House, The United Nations and Oxford University.
The Nairobi Book Launch: Part 1
July 2018 - Hargeisa International Book Fair, Somaliland
Hargeisa Book Fair
June 2018 - Africa Writes, London
Somali poetry
June 2018 - International Maritime Organisation, London
Women, Peace and Security
June 2018 - European Union, Brussels
Lorenzo Natali Media Prize
September 2017 - Maritime Security Symposium, London
Maritime Security Symposium
July 2017 - Royal United Services Institute, London
Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism
April 2017 - Hay Festival
Imagine the World
December 2016 - Danish Embassy, Nairobi
Security in the Horn of Africa
November 2016 - Overseas Development Institute, London
UK Approach to Eritrean Refugees
October 2016 - Somali Week Festival, London
Recording the Past
October 2016 - Chatham House, London
The Changing Nature of Eritrean Opposition Politics
June 2016 - British Institute in Eastern Africa, Kenya
African Agency in UK Africa relations
May 2016 - Oceans Beyond Piracy, London
State of Piracy
April 2016 - Lutonia Festival, UK
African Literature
December 2015 - Khadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey
Africa Engagement Outlook
November 2015 - Coventry University, UK
RISING Global Peace Forum
October 2015 - The Economist’s Ethiopia Summit, Ethiopia
Ethiopia Summit
August 2015 - Overseas Development Institute, London
Tales from the Humanitarian Frontline
August 2015 - Hargeisa, Somaliland
Hargeisa International Book Fair
May 2015 - Book and Kitchen, London
Somaliland: In conversation with the author Nadifa Mohamed
March 2015 - Somali Culture Week, Manchester University
March 2015 - School of Oriental and African Studies, London
East Africa: Turning Common Narratives Around
December 2015 - Security Summit, Turkey
International Terrorism & Transnational Crime Conference
November 2014 - Haller Prize, Kenya
Does Africa need Development Journalism?
November 2014 - Human Rights Watch, London
The Power These Men Have Over Us
May 2014 - Oxford University
Oxford Africa Conference
May 2014 - Royal Africa Society, London
Launch of In the Name of the People
April 2014 - Queen Mary University of London
Conference on FGM
April 2014 - MIT, Boston, USA
Urban Africa event
February 2014 - Anglo-Somali Society, London, UK
Somalis on ice
January 2014 - Chatham House, London, UK
Towards Somali Federalism?
October 2013 - Anglo-Somali Society, London, UK
October 2013 - Internazionale Literature Festival, Italy
October 2013 - Frontline Club London, UK
September 2013 - Royal African Society, London
Launch of The Orchard of Lost Souls
August 2013 - Hargeisa International Book Fair, Somaliland
July 2013 - British Library, London
June 2013 - Chatham House, London
May 2013 - Said Business School, Oxford University, UK
May 2013 - School of Oriental & Africa Studies, London, UK
April 2013 - Somali Economic Forum, London, UK
March 2013 - Idea Store, London, UK
January 2013 - The Jaipur Literature Festival, Jaipur.
Nov 2012 - Thomson Reuters Foundation, Istanbul
Nov 2012 - Oxford University, UK
October 2012 - Somali Week, London, UK
‘Mogadishu’
September/October 2012 - US book tour
July 2012 - Hargeisa Book Fair, Somaliland.
Somaliland launch of Getting Somalia Wrong?
June 2012 - House of Commons, UK
May 2012 - Oxford University, UK.
May 2012 - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Keynote speech on Getting Somalia Wrong?
April 2012 - University of Oxford event in Nairobi, Kenya.
Migration in the Horn of Africa and Yemen.
20 April 2012 - Oxford House, London, UK.
29 March 2012 - North Kensington Library, London, UK.
22 March 2012 - Sankara Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya.
Kenya launch of Getting Somalia Wrong?
March 2012 - Institute for Security Studies, Nairobi, Kenya.
Conference on the Horn of Africa
March 2012 - Dulwich College, London, UK.
March 2012 - SOAS, London, UK.
Working as a Foreign Correspondent
February 2012 - SOAS, London, UK.
London launch of Getting Somalia Wrong?
November 2011 - The Frontline Club, London, UK.
November 2011 - MSF Humanitarian Congress, Rome, Italy.
NGOs and the Media: a Symbiotic or a Contradictory Relationship?
November 2011 - Media, Conflict and Peace Building in Somalia, Somali Media Workshop organised by the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and Swansea University, Nairobi, Kenya.
September 2011 - Elections and the Management of Diversity in Africa, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.
September 2011 - Security in the Kenya/ Somalia border regions, European Interagency Security Forum, Brussels, Belgium.
September 2011 - The Media and Future Migration, Metropolis Conference on Migration, Azores, Portugal.
September 2011 - Somalia Then and Now, Granta Ten Years Later launch, Foyles, London, UK.
June 2011 - The Politics of International Broadcasters, University of Oxford, UK.
September 2009 - Spotlight on Darfur: The Role of Media in Conflict, University College London, UK.
March 2009 - Somalia: From Bad to Worse, The Frontline Club, London, UK.
September 2008 - Is Somalia the New Front on the War on Terror? The Frontline Club, London, UK.
The Nairobi Book Launch: Part 2
The Book Launch on Somali Television
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