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I don't recognize my people anymore. I feel Somalia is lost. There is no Somalia. It is just a name.

Somalia is an important story in the world, and it needed to be told.

What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me.

It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution.

I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.

An oversupply of national sentiment is not the problem in Somalia. The problem is a lack of it. The problem is an oversupply of sub-sub-clannish attitude.

The women of Afghanistan have a voice, and it needs to be heard and not forgotten.

I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do.

Going into Somalia, I didn't anticipate how many people's lives would be affected by it. In hindsight, I certainly wish I had taken more time to think about that, but I can't change it.

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.