Said Salah Ahmed

Said Salah Ahmed (, ) is a Somali playwright, poet, educator and filmmaker.

Life Said Salah was previously a biology teacher in Somalia. With a budget of $1.8 million, the 4-hour-and-40-minute epic was devoted to the polity of Darawiish king Diiriye Guure, i.e. the Dervish Movement. In the film dialogue you can hear seven languages: Somali, Arabic, Italian, English, and three regional dialects. The movie included an actual descendant of Diiriye Guure's emir, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan as its star, Sheikh Osman Mohamoud Omar, and featured hundreds of actors and extras. Some of his poems have been translated into English by the Poetry Translation Centre.