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Mohammed Iman Research Paper

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I had the opportunity to interview Mohammed Iman. Mohammed is a 32-year-old originally from Somalia, who moved to the United States 5 years ago, to be with his wife. Before moving to The United States, Mohammed was living and attending school in Egypt. Mohammed has lived, what he describes, a very fulling life, with an optimistic future. His story is one of love, compassion, and resilience. Mohammed was born in 1984 in Mogadishu, Somalia. Mogadishu is the capital city of Somalia, which is a country on the eastern coast of Africa. He is one of twenty-one children. Of the twenty-one children, only sixteen are still alive. He has three brothers, six half-brothers, four sisters and two half-sisters. Mohammed’s father was the main bread winner of the family. He was a businessman who traveled to Saudi Arabia to buy goods. Upon returning to Somalia, he would sell the goods he bought in Saudi …show more content…

This was hard for Mohammed as he was very close to his mother. However, she was very supportive of his decision. This was Mohammed’s first time out of his country. Mohammed liked that Egypt had a government. In Somalia, there was much unrest since the collapse of their government when the Civil War started in the early 1990’s. Mohammed thought Egypt was beautiful, busy, and more modern than where he came from. There were many more buildings, and even more historic places he liked. He felt the police respected foreigners and he felt welcomed there. While he was in the orphanage he learned Arabic, which enabled him to communicate easily in Egypt. The only thing he did not like was the food. It was in Egypt that he was exposed to the internet and cable. He loved to watch CNN and loved anything to do with politics. He became very interested in the United States. He thought the United States was clean and that there were no homeless people. He also thought that everyone had money, a car, and a

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