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...years we worked with NELC and other members of the Harvard faculty in planning our public programs and our publications. We sponsored an academic symposium in 1982 with Professor Isadore Twersky which resulted in a book publication; we curated the exhibit "Harvard's Arabian Nights" when Professor Muhsin Mahdi published a book about the One Thousand and One Nights; with Professor Shinasi Tekin we published The Imperial Self Portrait, a book of historic photographs of the Ottoman Empire. For years photographer Elizabeth Carella provided negatives and prints for NELC publications free of charge. Over the past decade we sponsored some...
...decision of the U.N. and the U.S. not to use military force to stop the fighting, rival clans waged gun battles all week in Mogadishu, killing at least 17 people. The shoot-outs among clans, the largest of which are led by General Mohammed Farrah Aidid and Mohammed Ali Mahdi, broke a seven-month cease-fire and stirred fears of a return to the civil war that raged from...
...imprisoned without trial for six years in the early 1970s. Later, Siad Barre appointed him envoy to New Delhi to get him out of the country. In 1991 he finally joined in the overthrow of Siad Barre. Soon, though, he fell out with another leader of the congress, Ali Mahdi Mohammed: in a three-month period the two men shelled the once beautiful port city of Mogadishu into a crumbling ruin. His estranged wife and children left the country years ago. But one son returned -- as a U.S. Marine, wading ashore last December to liberate Somalia from the likes...
...Mahdi and Aidid, meanwhile, are trying to create new images of themselves as politicians and statesmen. Last week's green-line rally marked the first time since the two sides went to war more than a year ago that they have appeared together at a public gathering. Since the Marines landed, however, they have had several private meetings. Both grandly declared that the day of rule by rifle was over. "I believe only in democracy," said Ali Mahdi in an interview with TIME at his seaside villa in Mogadishu. "Every Somali has the right to be President. If left...
...rhetoric is suspect, however, since the warlords' rivalries simmer on. Ali Mahdi blames continuing violence along the green line on looters from Aidid's sector. He also charges Aidid with having started the civil war that has killed tens of thousands and left Mogadishu in ruins. Because Aidid is a military officer, Ali Mahdi argues, he should be disqualified as a possible future leader of the country. "We do not want another general in charge of Somalia," he says, referring to Mohammed Siad Barre, whose corrupt, quasi- Marxist regime was overthrown in January 1991 after Ali Mahdi, Aidid and others...