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Abdi Ismail Samatar (Somali: Cabdi Ismaaciil Samatar, Arabic: عبدي إسماعيل ساماتار) (born 1950) is a Somali scholar, writer and professor of geography.

Personal life

Samatar was born in 1956 in Gabiley in Somaliland.

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He is the brother of scholar and politician Ahmed Ismail Samatar.^[1]

For his tertiary education, Samatar earned an A.B. from the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse in 1979. He later obtained a MCRP in Urban/Regional Planning from the Iowa State University in 1981.

In 1985, he completed a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.^[2]

Samatar is Muslim.^{[3][failed verification]}

Career

Between the late 1980s and early 1990s, Samatar was a lecturer at the University of Iowa.^[2] He later joined the University of Minnesota's faculty, serving as a professor of geography and chair of the institution's geography department.^[4]

He has authored several books centered on democra