Ibrahim Osman

2 months ago | shorturl.at | Jan Bornman |Mohamed Gabobe |Ibrahim Osman

On any given day, the pavement outside “Uncle” Ebrahim Mohamed Ali’s coffee shop is crowded with Somali men gathering for his famous coffee while discussing politics, sharing stories, or talking about events in their homeland.

2 months ago | geeska.com | Etenat Awol |Ibrahim Osman |Yasir Zaidan |Mahamad Hersi

Imagine, at 14, your education in Ethiopia’s Tigray region grinding to a halt as the deadliest war of the century erupts, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. For over two years, you have been out of school, deprived of your fundamental human rights — the right to education. Imagine surviving those excruciating years, only to return to a classroom with a sense of bittersweet relief.

2 months ago | shorturl.at | Ibrahim Osman |Mohamed Gabobe

It was during a bout of doom scrolling on Instagram that I first encountered one of his works. Titled Monument, the piece arrested my attention because of the way that it used elements of Somali culture which are ubiquitous but intelligently detached and isolated from their context. The graphics transform pieces of our culture into abstractions that feel both familiar but a bit lost. Several subeeciyado flutter in the wind suspended mid-air, one floats in the silhouette of a person who isn’t there.

Dec 4, 2024 | znetwork.org | Ibrahim Osman

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Nov 28, 2024 | geeska.com | Atiyyah Khan |Ibrahim Osman |Antonio M Morone

It was while in school that Khalid Albaih first realized the universal appeal of political satire:I noticed that we all have the same jokes. So the Palestinians joked about Arafat, and we joked about al-Bashir. Each one made a joke about their president, of course, whispering it, but it was all the same jokes, just different presidents. So that really made me feel that it was politics and/or the corruption of it, that really connected a lot of people, especially my generation.