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Fatoun Ali teaching: 'The Islam I Grew Up With and the Islam I am Learning'

Fatoun Ali landed on American soil in 1998 as a native of Somalia and a survivor of a Kenyan refugee camp. She was married, uneducated and pregnant with a child who eventually died at 4 months from muscular dystrophy. Regardless of these challenges, Fatoun had a strong desire to create a better life for her family and her community, and has devoted her work since the death of her child to caring for and empowering immigrant families. Like the millions of immigrants who came before her, Fatoun knew that her path to achieving success would come through education and hard work. In the ensuing 20 years she has learned English, earned an associate of arts degree, pursued entrepreneurial endeavors, operated a home health care agency, and started a non-profit organization. Now a single mom raising four children, Fatoun wears many “hijabs.” She is the executive director of the Somali Youth and Family Development Center, a realtor, a financial educator, a small business owner and a mentor to young girls, always focused on empowering Somali refugees and immigrants to make a better life in Minnesota. Most importantly, Fatoun serves as a bridge between the vibrant culture of her native land and the America she now embraces as her home. She works with educators, social workers, housing agencies, non-profits, and community members to teach Somali culture, and history, particularly the traumas associated with being refugees from a war-torn country, unsure of who they are and where they belong in the world. Fatoun strives every day to make forward progress on her vision of nurturing and building a vibrant, healthy, prosperous and safe Somali community in Minnesota. November 2, 2025. For more information about Sufi Center Minnesota go to: www.suficentermn.org.