2 Quotes & Sayings By Alifa Rifaat
Alifa Rifaat is a Somali author and political activist. Her family was subjected to violence during the civil war in Somalia. She continued her education at the University of Iowa where she earned her Master degree in Chemical Engineering. She is now an American citizen who resides with her family in the United States
Her first book, The House of Stone, published by Algonquin Books, won the 2007 American Book Award for Fiction. Her second book, Sons of Somalia , is forthcoming.