Somali

United States Representative Ilhan Omar 

Serving the 5th District of Minnesota

Congresswoman Omar is a member of the House Budget Committee, the House Education and Workforce Committee, the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections and Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, Pensions (HELP). She is the Deputy Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and Vice Chair of Medicare For All Caucus. She is a member of the LGBT Equality Caucus, Congressional Black Caucus, Women's Caucus, Pro-Choice Caucus, Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, Diabetes Caucus, CBC Taskforce on Black Youth Suicide and Mental Health. Please refer to the Committees and Caucuses page for a complete listing.

Somali Women: A Bibliography

Adan, Ayaan. Daughters of Arraweelo: Stories of Somali Women. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2022.

Akou, Heather M. The Politics of Dress in Somali Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. 

Armila, Päivi et al. The Contexts of Diaspora Citizenship: Somali Communities in Finland and the United States. Chan, Switzerland: Springer, 2019. 

Crosby, Dorian Brown. Somalis in the Neo-South: African Immigration Politics and Race. New York: Peter Lang, 2020.

Dirie, Waris and Jeanne D'Haem. Desert Dawn. London: Virago, 2012.

Dirie, Waris and Cathleen Miller. Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Life of a Desert Nomad. New York: Virago, 2011.

Dirie, Waris and Corinna Milborn. Desert Children. London: Virago, 2007.

Hawa, Abdi and Sarah J. Robbins. Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed. New York: Grand Central Pub, 2013.

Hirsi, Ali A. The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam. New York: Free Press, 2008.

Hirsi, Ali A. Infidel. New York: Atria Paperback, 2013.

Hirsi, Ali A. Nomad: From Islam to America-a Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations. New York: Atria Paperback, 2013. 

Hussien, Khadra and Badria Khalif. Somali Culture and Gender Roles: A Story About a Little Girl with Many Dreams = Dhaqanka Soomaalida Iyo Doorka Labka Iyo Dhediga: Sheeko Ku Saabsan Gabar Yar Oo Hami Baden Ku Jior. Orlando: Khadra Hussien, 2022.

Lewis, Joanna. Women of the Somali Diaspora: Refugees Resilience and Rebuilding After Conflict. New York: Oxford University Press 2021. 

Massoud, Mark Fathi. Shari'a Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Maxamed, Faarax M. and Sergio Drumond. The Great Escape: How a Few Somali Girls Changed the World After Escaping from the Bondage of Female Circumcision: A Short Story. Alexandria, VA: Somali Media Company, 2014.

Mire, Soraya. The Girl with Three Legs. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2011. 

Omar, Ilhan and Rebecca Paley. This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman. New York: Dey St., 2020.

Ripero-Muñiz, Nereida. Cosmopolitan Refugees: Somali Migrant Women in Nairobi and Johannesburg. New York: Berghahn Books, 2023. 

Staniland, Emma. Women and Water in Global Fiction. New York: Routledge, 2023.