Khadra sufi biography of martin

Khadra Sufi’s background

Khadra Sufi is the daughter of a Somali diplomat and spent the first years of her life in Yemen, Zambia and Saudi Arabia.

In 1983, the diplomatic family moved to East Berlin.

She is Somali, grew up in the UAE, and has worked with refugees in the U.S. and in refugee camps in Kenya, Pakistan, and Yemen for more than thirty years.

The Sufi Path of Knowledge.

Martin Lings () was a leading member of the “Traditionalist” or “Perennialist” school and an acclaimed author, editor, translator, scholar.

For Martin Lings Sufism is “simply Islamic mysticism” (Lings ), while for Clifford Geertz it is rather “a series of different and even contradictory.

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At the age of eight she returned to Somalia with her parents and siblings. The family was persecuted by insurgents during the Somali civil war and in 1990 had to flee to Egypt via Kenya. A year later they came to the reunified Germany, where they lived in a home for asylum seekers near Bonn.

Khadra did not follow her family when they moved to London and stayed in Germany. Here the sixteen-year-old lived at times penniless in a converted garage.

Lings, Martin.

She completed her secondary school leaving certificate and received training as a medical assistant, worked and applied for castings.

In 2003, Sufi lived for 43 days on the television show Big Brother (Season 4). She also moderates various web TV formats and events.

She worked as a reporter for the Bild (newspaper) in Cologne from