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Safia Aidid

Safia Aidid is a historian specializing in the Horn of Africa and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto.

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A journey to Harar

In Mexican-Ethiopian filmmaker Jessica Beshir’s Faya Dayi, khat is more than an important export product in a capitalist economy; she captures khat’s roles and meanings in everyday Harari life.