Said Salah Ahmed’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Somali playwright, poet, educator, filmmaker
Is Writer
Playwright
From Somalia
Type Film, TV, Stage & Radio
Literature
Gender male
Birth

Somalia

Said Salah Ahmed (Somali: Saciid Saalax Axmed, Arabic: سعيد صاح أحمد‎‎) is a Somali playwright, poet, educator and filmmaker. He was previously a biology teacher in Somalia. In 1984-1985, Ahmed directed his first feature film, The Somali Darwish (alt. The Somalia Dervishes), with Amar Sneh serving as producer. With a budget of $1.8 million, the 4-hour-and-40-minute epic was devoted to the revolutionary Somali Dervish Movement. In the Film dialogue you can hear seven languages, namely Somali, Arabic, Italian, English, and three regional dialects. The movie included an actual descendant of Mohammed Abdullah Hassan as its star(Sheikh Osman Mohamoud Omar)and featured hundreds of actors and extras. Following the start of the civil war, Ahmed emigrated to Minnesota. He subsequently wrote the children’s book The Lion’s Share, which served as the basis for a Somali folklore-based play that he both penned and produced for the SteppingStone Theatre. Some of his poems have been translated into English by the Poetry Translation Centre.

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