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But what starts as a few friendly words in Albanian will soon change their lives forever

making small talk

Until the night her eldest sister disappears

to advocate for democracy in Hong Kong

Call Me American: A Memoir Classics_Gift_Guide artisanal cheesesAbdi Nor Iftin first fell in love with America from afar. As a child, he learned English by listening to American pop and watching action films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. When U. S. marines landed in Mogadishu to take on the warlords, Abdi cheered the arrival of these Americans, who seemed as heroic as those of the movies. Sporting American clothes and dance moves, he became known around Mogadishu as Abdi American, but when the radical Islamist