Walking a mile in your neighbor's shoes/sandals/barefeet

Joao Silva for The New York Times
While many in 56572 are thinking about law and order locally, others are in the PRPL glued to the new flat screens following what is happening back home in Somalia. The news this week is not good. This article in today's New York Times explains what is going on. I found the article by William Finnegan in this week's New Yorker magazine about Lewiston, Maine - another ten per cent Somali town - enlightening. The slideshow by Samantha Appleton was also interesting. For more details about the current political map of Somalia click here.

Today's Somali Vocabulary lesson:
haram