Maxamed Xasan

Amiirkii farxadda ku jirey iyo afar sheeko oo kale Maxamed Xasan

Published in this Volume 6 of Iswaydaarsi (exchange) series, is a collection of five short stories English novelists and story writers. Each story has been translated into Somali by Rashid Sheikh Abdullahi and Mohamed Hassan. The original stories in English and their translated Somali version are both included in the book. Also included are the translated works, into English of visiting artists to the Somali Week Festival 2012.

The Iswaydaarsi (exchange) series offers translations into Somali of English works by Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edith Nesbit and Oscar Wilde; and from Somali poetry by Said Salah, Muuse Cali Faruur, Cabdi Yuusuf Xasan "Cabdi-dhuux", Faysal Cumar Mushteeg and Xasan Qowdhan Yuusuf into English. The series intends to provide knowledge of international classical literature to the Somali speaking readership, alongside Somali literature and wisdom.