Ali Jimale Ahmed

Ali Jimale Ahmed was a Somali scholar, author, poet, and a professor.

Biography Ali held a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). At the time of his passing, he was the current professor and former chair of Comparative Literature at Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center. Ali would teach courses in African, Middle Eastern, and European literature. His poetry and short stories have also been translated into several languages, including Japanese and the languages spoken in the former Yugoslavia.

Ali would teach Comparative Literature at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Publications The Invention of Somalia, (The Red Sea Press: 1995), , Daybreak is Near: Literature, Clans, and the Nation-state in Somalia, (Red Sea Press: 1997), , Fear is a Cow, (The Red Sea Press: 2002), , Diaspora Blues, (The Red Sea Press: 2005), The Road Less Traveled: Reflections On The Literatures Of The Horn Of Africa , (The Red Sea Press: 2008),