Seeking Salaam: Ethiopians, Eritreans, and Somalis in the Pacific Northwest

Index

285 a Abagobiye, 101 abba Bahrey, 189 abba Haddis gede, 106 abdifatah Yusuf isse, 68 abdihakim Hassan: and abdullahi Yusuf, 117; and clan identity, 22; and class prejudices, 145–46; and Dhulbahante resistance, 113; and ethiopians and eritreans, 36; and gabay, 78; and icu, 65; and inter-ethnic dating, 243; and politics, 257; and Punt, 52–53; and religious extremism, 159; and services to somalis, 65–67, 70; and soccer, 232; and somali Bantus, 178–79; and women, 208; and youth, 119 abdi madey ali, 178 abdi m. kusow, 81–82 abdullahi mohamed (gardheere), 131 abdullahi Yusuf ahmed: as colonel, 130–31; as president, 17, 45, 59, 64, 66, 237; and the United states, 116–17; and women, 206 abdurahman Jama, 74–75 abeba Tesfagiorgis, 220 abebe Bikila, 238 abe Demisse, 34, 167, 196–97, 209 abgal, 66, 149 i n DeX abraha alemseged: and eritrean history, 7, 58, 103, 143; and ethiopians, 23, 47–48; and Haile selassie, 56–57; and home, 232–33; and Jehovah’s Witnesses, 161; and mixed heritage, 242; and muslims, 156; and ngos, 103; and the pfdj, 229; and the Queen of sheba, 50; and somalia, 59, 60; and the United states, 31, 78; and values, 87–88, 101, 103, 211, 234, 251–52 abrahim sheikh mohamed, 63–64, 128 abubakar ali, 198–99 addis ababa, 5, 12, 13, 47, 129, 165, 232; and abdullahi Yusuf, 131; and class, 145; and eprdf, 154; and Haile selassie, 53, 55, 56; and tplf, 109 adenite community, 163 adulis, 79 adwa, Battle of, 12, 52, 55–56, 106–7 afaan Oromo. See Oromiffa afar, 47, 188 afgoi, 151 african students association (Ps), 245 african students association (UW), 245 286 inDEX african Women’s Coalition, 249 ahlu sunnah Waljama’ah, 45 ahmad ibn abrahim al-ghazi. See garey ahmed i. samatar, 32, 183, 253 ahmed ismail Yusuf, 186 ahmed Rashid mohamed, 248 aklilu Foto, 79–80, 91 al-asham, negus, 158 alemseged abbay, 49, 57, 144 ali mahdi, 149 al-ittihad al-islamiya, 63, 159, 168 all-ethiopia socialist movement. See meison alliance for the Re-liberation of somalia, 17, 45, 66, 114 almaz Bahre, 8, 110–11, 220–21, 251 al-Qaeda: and al-shabaab, 231–32; deputy leader of, 67; and icu, 64–65; and the United states, 45, 62–63, 66 al-shabaab, 17, 45, 67–68, 231–32 alula asfew, 246 amadu, 184–87 Aman: The Story of a Somali Girl (Barnes), 84, 184, 212 american foreign policy: Cold War, 39–44; Combined Joint Task Force, Djibouti, 63, 71; Joint Terrorism Task Force, 71; Operation enduring Freedom, 61–62; war on terrorism, 39, 44–45, 59 amhara(s)/amharic, 3, 7, 10, 12, 21, 30, 46–47, 56, 82, 92, 95, 129, 255; identity, 105–6; and Oromo, 105– 6, 188–95, 197, 199; and religion, 153–54; and Tigray, 106–8, 199; and the United states, 50 amina sharif, 120 amina sheikhuna, 84–85, 218, 222, 251–52 amrit Wilson, 220 anderson, Jon lee, 60 anderson, Richard, x andom, mary, 205 anuak, 247 arab league, 122 araia Belainesh, 218 ark of the Covenant, 48 arraweelo, 222–23 arsi, Battle of, 193 asafa Jalata, 192–93 asia mohamed egal, 36–39, 75, 130, 132–33, 225–26 asli Financial services, 170–71 asmara, 7, 8, 100, 126, 163, 230, 232; airport bombing in, 123–24; eplf in, 9–10, 135, 138; female businesses in, 203; maibella in, 49–50; as modernist city, 143–45; mosques in, 156; Shida monument in, 102 assab, 165–66 aster Yohannes, 217 astier Feshatsion, 217 awale Farah, 28 axum, 136; ark of the Covenant in, 48–49; dynasty, 162, 188, 224; of 500 b.c.e., 10–11, 79; identity, 107 ayaan Hirsi ali, 131, 140, 213, 214–15 ayman al-Zawahiri, 67 aziz Junejo, 63 b Badme, 13–14, 123–26, 136, 166 Baidoa, 65, 117 inDEX 287 Bantu. See somali Bantu Barakat Wire Transfer Company, 62 Barnett, katie, 67, 70 Barre, mohamed siyad (President), 37, 133; american support of, 43–44; and clan divisions, 139, 147, 149, 169, 182; departure of, 44, 149, 151, 182; and greater somalia, 15–16; and moral code, 119; nationhood under, 98; and the Ogaden, 129–31; and outcasts, 186; and Red Berets, 132; and scientific socialism, 68, 145, 182; and the siyad Barre generation, 28; and women, 206 “Beginning again” (samatar), 253 Benadiri, 174, 187 Beni-amir, 21, 156...