Ahmed Sheikh Ali "Burale"

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Ahmed Sheikh Ali Ahmed "Burale" (Born 1937 in Luk, Upper Jubba, Somalia) is an author and politician. Burale studied in Mogadishu from 1954-1966 and worked in Somali civil courts from 1967-1990 and became a member of Somali National Front in 1991, a member of its executive committee in 1997, the chairman of one of its wings in 1999.

In the year 2000 became the legal adviser to then president of the Transitional National Government (TNG) Abdiqasim Salad Hassan. Burale is an author of Somali traditional customs and many other books, also he translated the famous book of Abdalla Ibn Muqfa'a "Kalila Wa Dimna" from Arabic to Somali.