Harar, Ethiopia – When Abdallah Ali Sherif was growing up in eastern Ethiopia, his parents never spoke about the history of his city. “When I asked my parents about our history, they told me w ...

In the sun-scorched hills of eastern Ethiopia, where clean water can still be a distant dream, one community-led foundation ...

Abbas Ahmed, 1992: ‘A Historical Study of the city-state of Harar (1795-1875)’ MA thesis, Department of History, Addis Ababa University. Abraham Demoz. 1972: ‘Moslems and Islam in Ethiopic Literature’ ...

The fortified historic town of Harar is located in the eastern part of the country on a plateau with deep gorges surrounded by deserts and savannah. The walls surrounding this sacred Muslim city were ...