Friendships that don't fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in.
I am so proud to be a Canadian.
I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.
Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression.
Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.
The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women’s freedoms in southern Somalia – that type of mentality – that’s what I had to deal with in captivity.