{"id":1,"date":"2010-09-16T18:38:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T18:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hajifarah.com\/blog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2012-09-26T19:53:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T16:53:35","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hajifarah.com\/blog\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"About me!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Welcome to Hajifarah Post! Hello, my name is Musa Haji Farah (a.k.a. Omar-yare). I was born in Gabiley, a small town in northern Somalia from a religious family. After attending two years in a Quranic school and 12 years of completing high school education in Somalia, I left my country in 1976 for Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) and worked there for a period of exactly 5 years in a big Oil Company. In 1981 I traveled, on my own expenses, to the United States of America to pursue my childhood dream of obtaining a higher education. In December 1984, I graduated with a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. In 1986 I returned to my homeland and was soon hired as a National Expert in a UNFPA-sponsored project, “1987 National Census of Population and Household”, at the Ministry of National Planning – Mogadishu. In 1987 I went back to USA, this time on a UN scholarship, to complete a post-graduate degree in Management Information Systems (MIS). In May 1989, I graduated from the George Washington University, Washington DC, with a Masters degree in Administrative Science (MIS Track). Soon after graduation, I returned to Somalia – despite the deterioration of its political situation at the time – to resume my job responsibilities as stated above. In 1990, while working in the final stages of the Data Processing phase of the “1987 National Census of Population and Household”, the tragic civil war broke out in Mogadishu on a late December morning. I waited and waited in and around Mogadishu. But after a long wait for the return of law and order in Mogadishu in almost 6 months, I finally decided unwillingly to say good-bye to my once sweet home on June 20, 1991 when I fled to Djibouti. The following lyrics excerpted from a popular Somali post-war song was then in order:<\/p>\n

“Dalkaygow dalxiis kaagamaan imaanee dalkaygow; markuu duulba duul wareemay dalkaygow, markii nabad laysku diiday dalkaygow, duqeydii la dhaafi waayey dalkaygow, markay dihatay sun daacday ayaan nafta la soo dallaalmay dalkaygow!!!!….” <\/em><\/p>\n

Roughly translated,<\/p>\n

“O my country I left you not for a pursuit of tourism; but only when everyone started butchering everyone else; when peace was denied; when [lives of] elders were not spared; when it all sighed with poison; O my country! Then and only then did I attempt to save my soul<\/em>!”<\/p>\n

Consequently, I became one of the millions of other Somali brothers and sisters who sought elsewhere for safe heavens. I worked out to make Djibouti a second home and stayed there for the next 4 years after getting re-married to a woman I loved after a previous failed marriage and was blessed to a beautiful baby girl I named “Muna”. From October 1994 until now, I live and work with an International Organisation here in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

In my spare time, I enjoy several interests such as surfing the net; Computer Programming; reading books including religious ones; helping poor people as much as I could; designing websites for fun; and listening and enjoying good old popular Somali poems and songs.<\/p>\n

In this personal home page, I would like to share, explore and expand- among other things- the knowledge of true Islam (the final message from Allah the Almighty!) with my cyber visitors in both Somali and English for the sole purpose of education.<\/p>\n

Thank you for your time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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