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On the occasion of the workshop Global and Local Political Debates over Women’s Rights, and Everyday Life in Muslim Africa, on 20 and 21 September, the ASCL Library has compiled a web dossier on Women in Muslim Africa.

Aqeeqa is a play written by Assad Bhuglah, an economist who served as a trade expert for the government of Mauritius from 1981-2016. He produced several books on historical figures as well as fictional works. Aqeeqa is his first work with an explicit religious theme. It deals with the Islamic birth ritual consisting of naming, hair shaving and animal sacrifice.

On 30 September 2012, Somali poet and political activist, Mohamed Hashi Dhamac, better known as Gaarriye, died at a hospital in Norway. He is regarded as one of the most important Somali poets of the twentieth century.