Abdisalam Issa-Salwe
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Dr. Abdisalam Mohamed Issa-Salwe (PhD) is a Somali
Somali people
Somalis are an ethnic group located in the Horn of Africa, also known as the Somali Peninsula. The overwhelming majority of Somalis speak the Somali language, which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family...

 writer
Writer
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 and scholar.

Career

Issa-Salwe is currently Asst. Professor in Information Systems in the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering at Taibah University
Taibah University
Taibah University is a university located in Medina, Saudi Arabia, established in 2003.-Schools:Taibah University includes 22 colleges. They include:*College of Medicine*College of Dentistry*College of Pharmacy*College of Applied Medical Sciences...

 in Medina
Medina
Medina , or ; also transliterated as Madinah, or madinat al-nabi "the city of the prophet") is a city in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia, and serves as the capital of the Al Madinah Province. It is the second holiest city in Islam, and the burial place of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, and...

, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...

. Previously, he was a lecturer in Information Systems at Thames Valley University
Thames Valley University
The University of West London is a public university based in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in Ealing and Brentford, London, and Reading, Berkshire....

 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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, and also worked as Information Technology lecturer in the Training & Employment Section, British Refugee Council.

Issa-Salwe is also a specialist in political history and matters pertaining to the Horn of Africa
Horn of Africa
The Horn of Africa is a peninsula in East Africa that juts hundreds of kilometers into the Arabian Sea and lies along the southern side of the Gulf of Aden. It is the easternmost projection of the African continent...

, and has published several works dealing with the region in general within the field of Somali Studies
Somali Studies
Somali Studies is the scholarly term for research concerning Somalis and Somalia. It consists of several disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, linguistics, historiography and archaeology...


Books

  • The Collapse of the Somali State: The Impact of the Colonial Legacy, Haan Associates Publishers, 1996
  • Cold War Fallout: Boundary Politics and Conflict in The Horn of Africa, Haan Associates Publishers, 2000
  • Oral Culture and Computer Mediated Communication: Social Dynamics of Mailing Lists, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken 2010
  • Electronic Communication and an Oral Culture: The Web Dynamics of Social Web Environment Case Study, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken 2010

Articles

  • Issa-Salwe Abdisalam M., The Failure of The Daraawiish State, The Clash Between Somali Clanship and State System – Paper presented at the 5th International Congress of Somali Studies, December 1993
  • Issa-Salwe Abdisalam M. et al, Computer-Mediated Communication Discussion Environment: Electronic Dialogue in a Conflict Situation, Trends in Information Management, 5: 2. Jan 2009
  • Issa-Salwe Abdisalam M. , The Internet Medium and Poetry Transmission: The Poetry Combat of Doodwanaag", Halabuur Centre for Culture and Communication, 2: 1, 12-19, 2009.
  • Abdisalam M. Issa-Salwe and Anthony Olden (2008): Somali Web Sites, History and Politics", Aslib Proceedings, Information Management Journal, 60: 6, 570-582.
  • Issa-Salwe Abdisalam M., The Internet and the Somali Diaspora: The Web as a Means of Expression, Bildhaan, Journal of Somali Studies: Vol. 6, Article 8, 2006.
  • Issa-Salwe Abdisalam M: Setting up a Secure Information System Using Information Security Management, International Journal of Research and Reviews in Computer Science (IJRRCS), Vol. 2, No. 1, March 2011.
  • Issa-Salwe Abdisalam M and Munir Ahmed, Risk Management of an Information System by Assessing Threat, Vulnerability and Countermeasure, International Journal of Research and Reviews in Computer Science (IJRRCS,. Vol. 2, No. 1, March 2011.
  • Muhammad Kabir, Abdisalam M. Issa-Salwe and Prof. Munir Ahmed, Modelling and Simulation: Implementing Selective Catalytic Reduction Catalyst for Removal of Nitrogen Oxides from Exhaust Gas of Combustion Engines, International Journal of Vehicle Systems Modelling and Testing, (IJVSMT), InderScience, 2010 - Vol. 5, No.4 pp. 358 – 378
  • Muhammad Noman Kabir, Abdisalam M. Issa-Salwe and Prof. Munir Ahmed: Simplified Model of Combustion Process in a Diesel Engine for Real Time Operation, International Journal of Vehicle Systems Modelling and Testing, (IJVSMT), InderScience, 2010 - Vol. 5, No.4 pp. 358 – 378
  • Issa-Salwe Abdisalam, Munir Ahmed, Khalid Aloufi and Muhammad Kabir: Strategic Information Systems Alignment: Alignment of IS/IT with Business Strategy, Journal of Information Processing Systems, Vol.6, No.1, March 2010.
  • Issa-Salwe Abdisalam, M. Ahmed, M. N. Kabir, L. Sharif and M. A. Azim (2009), Computer-Mediated Communication: Mailing List as Modern Meeting Place, Trends in Information Management, 5:2, 76-110, July–December 2009.
  • Mohamed A. Azim, Mohamed Noman Kabir, Munir Ahmed, Abdisalam Issa-Salwe, (2009): “Availability Analysis of M:N Protection System in WDM Networks”, The Fourth International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Technologies and Applications (ICTU 2009), IEEE Conference, Fukuoka, Japan, Dec. 20-22, 2009.
  • Lukman Sharif, Abdisalam Issa-Salwe, Muhammad Noman Kabir, Abdulrahman Alharby, Munir Ahmed, (2009): Information Security: Securing a Network Device with Passwords to Protect Information, Trends in Information Management, 5: 2.

Dissertation

  • Electronic Communication and an Oral Culture: The Political Dynamics of Somali Websites and Mailing Lists – unpublished doctoral dissertation, Thames Valley University, UK, November 2005

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