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Abdirizak Bihi

Somali social activist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ17305694 ↗
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Abdirizak Bihi (Somali: Cabdirisaaq Biixi, Arabic: عبد الرزاق بيهي) is a Somali-American social activist. Since 1996, he has been an organizer within the Somali community in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Bihi is the Director of the Somali Education and Social Advocacy Center. In this capacity, he has worked toward educating and training Somali leaders for civic action.

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The public source identifies “Abdirizak Bihi” as somali social activist. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Abdirizak, Bihi and Somali.

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This entry incorporates text from “Abdirizak Bihi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.