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in Lower and Middle Juba valley tracking the history of Gosha people's history and trade relations between
Kismayu and Zanzibar. In 1977, Dr. Mukhtar also surveyed Northeastern and Northwestern regions of Somalia exploring their political and economic conditions during the British Military Administration BMA in Somalia 1940-1950. From 1975 to 1983, Dr. Mukhtar became an associate professor of History at College of Education, Lafoole; Somali National University SNU, Mogadishu, Somalia. The only college that the medium of instruction was English and Arabic. He taught Middle Eastern History and Somali History. Indeed, he was the first to offer courses on the History of Somalia. In addition, he taught Historiography and supervised Senior Research Projects.
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Pennsylvania, USA, and chaired this committee from 1996 to 2010. The Ergada is a group of Somali scholars and professionals actively pursued a peaceful settlement through direct discussions with protagonists as well indirectly through consultations with United
Nations and international institutions. From 2007 to present, he is the founder and President of the Center for Peace-Building Initiative CPBI, Savannah, Georgia, USA, and from 1992 to present, a founding member and chair of the Inter-Riverine Studies Association ISA, Detroit, Michigan, USA. The ISA is an academic organization found in 1993 to reexamine the assumptions upon which the sociocultural, economic and identity formations of the Somali society is based.
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Rise and
Expansion of Islam.” In The Middle East: Its History and Culture, edited by Jason Tatlock (University of Maryland Press, 2012), 47-64. In 2010, he published “Language Marginalization, Ethnic Nationalism and Cultural Crisis in Somalia.” In Milk and Peace, Drought and War: Somali Culture Society and Politics, edited by Virginia Luling and Markus Hohne (London: Hurst, 2010), 281-300. Coauthored a language dictionary titled: English-Maay Dictionary (London: Adonis & Abbey, 2007); and in 2003, Historical Dictionary of Somalia, New Edition (Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2003).
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Universiti
Kebangsaan Malaysia UKM (The National University of Malaysia) in Kuala Lumpur, teaching The History of Islamic Civilization in Africa, and the Arabic Language. He held Fellowships from the Istituto Italiano per L’Africa, Rome 1979; the Arab League's Education, Culture and Science Organization ALECSO 1980-1982, as well as the National Endowment for the Humanities NEH in 2002.
283:, Universita di Pavia, Italy. From 1996-2002, Dr. Mukhtar served Chief Editor, Demenedung, Newsletter for the Inter-Riverine Studies Association (ISA), Detroit, Michigan, and from 1988-1994, He was a contributing editor to Islamyyat, Journal of the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Dr. Mukhtar, works closely with the
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Dr. Mukhtar, started his career as a researcher at
Akadeemiyaha Dhaqanka Somaliyeed (The Somali Academy of Culture) in 1974. While there, he surveyed coastal towns of Banadir, mainly, Marka, Baraawa and their environs, and identified historical sites of the area. In 1976, he conducted field research
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International institutions that are engaged in crisis and conflict areas of the world, including the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR, The Swedish Life and Peace Institute LPI, the Canadian Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies CIPCS, The U.S. Institute of Peace just to mention
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Dr. Mukhtar's research focuses on the history of the
Islamic World, Northeast Africa, and Southern Arabia. His areas of publication and conferences are conflict resolutions and reconciliation, and Muslim experiences in the United States of America. He has recently published a chapter titled: “The
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University of South Carolina USC, in Columbia as a Curriculum Development Specialist, worked with the Department of Government and International Relations GINT who were interested in offering courses on the Indian Ocean Studies. From 1986 to 1990, Dr. Mukhtar was associate professor at the
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From 2000 to present Dr. Mukhtar is a board member of the
Savannah Council on World Affairs SCWA, Savannah, Georgia, USA, as well as board member of Global Advisory Board for Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, Paris, France. He is also member of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic
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Dr. Mukhtar has long been a producer and correspondent of
British Broadcasting Corporation BBC, African and Arabic Service as well as the Voice of America VOA. From 1989 to 2003, he is a founding member of Ergada Wadatashiga Somalia (Somali Peace, and Consultation Committee), Harrisburg,
196:., the world's oldest and most venerated school of Islamic studies; majoring in history and civilization. His Ph.D. dissertation is titled: Al-Sumal al-Itali fi Fatrat al-Wisayah Hatta al-Istiqlal, 1950-1960 (Italian Somaliland from Trusteeship to Independence 1950-1960)
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Mukhtar started his primary education at Scuola Elementare di Corcor, in Korkoor, and completed in Mogadishu at Scuola Elementare di Hamar Jajab, then Istituto Discipline Islamiche. In 1966, Mukhtar pursued his higher education and earned his B.A., M.A. and
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Dr. Mukhtar is a two-time Fulbright Hays Scholar, first as a Senior Research African Scholar in 1983-1984 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia working on the translation and publication of his Ph.D. dissertation; and then from 1984 to 1985.
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He is known as an advocate of the use of Maay-Somali language, and all other Somali languages that exist in Somalia. He is an historian, currently a Professor of African and Middle Eastern History at Savannah State University SSU in Savannah Georgia,
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African Service, and is presently the chairperson of the Somalia Committee for Peace and Reconciliation (Ergada) as well as the Inter-Riverine Studies Association (ISA).
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Mu'jam al-Mu'allifin al-Sumaliuyin bil 'Arabiyyah, Qadiman wa Hadithan (Dictionary of Somali Writers in Arabic, from Ancient to Contemporary times)
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Mukhtar, Kusow, Mohamed, Abdi (September 23, 1993). "The Bottom-up Approach in Reconciliation in the Inter-River Regions of Somalia".
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418:'Al-Wahdah al-Ifriqiyyah wa Atharaha 'Ala al-Harakaat al-Taharruriyyah.' In The League of African State Bulletin, (Cairo: 1972).
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897:"Building Peace from Below? A Critical Review of the District Councils in the Bay and Bakool Regions of Southern Somalia"
456:'Somali Reconciliation Conferences: The Unbeaten Track.' In African Renaissance, Vol. 3, No. 5 (September/October, 2006).
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Voice and Power: The Culture of Language in Northeast Africa. Essays in the Honour of B.W. Andrzejewski
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435:'African Solution to African Problems: The End of Mogadishu Syndrome.'In Ulf Johanson Dahre (ed.),
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Fakulti Pengajian Islam (National University of Malaysia, Faculty of Islamic Studies)
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459:'Background of the Conflict: What Went Wrong with the Somali Peace Initiatives.' In
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508:'Language Marginalization, Ethnic Nationalism and Cultural Crises in Somalia.',
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466:'The Real News from Somalia.' In The Washington Post, (November 18, 1995).
478:'Somalia: Searching for the Foundation of Social and Civil Morality', in
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Ajuran Sultanate. Mukhtar, M. H. (2016). In J. Mackenzie (Ed.)
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421:'The Plight of the Agro-Pastoral Society of Somalia',
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967:"African Books Collective: Mohamed Haji Mukhtar"
614:. Cairo, Egypt: Maktabat al-Nahdah al-Misriyyah.
380:'Islam in Somali History: Fact and Fiction', in
682:Who is Who in America. "Who's Who in America".
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442:'Somalia Trampling the Grass.' In
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501:'Songs from the South.' In
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