CALL ME AMERICAN / Abdi Nor Iftin Excerpted from Chapter Five: Arabic to English By December of 1992, the world could…
Abdi Nor Iftin
Abdi Nor Iftin is a naturally gifted speaker and story teller. His stories have been featured on various radio and television stations, most recently on BBC and This American Life. Abdi’s stories are personal narratives about growing up in a country shredded by a civil war and radical Islamists and about his sheer luck to win a green card lottery to immigrate to the United States in 2014. He is currently living and working in Maine and his book Call Me American comes out on June 19th.