| Abdi research noted that this form of adaptation demonstrated the African concept of Ubuntu, which describes the African people as trusting and unsuspicious of strangers. |
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| Despite facing many obstacles, it was encroached only once, when militants invaded and took Dr. Abdi hostage. |
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| Nuradin M. Abdi November 2003 Plotted to bomb a Columbus, Ohio, shopping mall. |
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| In 1999, when Abdi was 14, the family came to the US, settling in Minneapolis where there is a large Somali population. |
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| What comes across most tangibly from Abdi is a sense of delicious disbelief, to suddenly find himself where he is. |
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| Abdi worked with his brother in a mobile phone store, as a DJ, and most recently, a limousine driver. |
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| Abdi only got into acting when the producers of the film came to Minneapolis to audition Somali-born actors. |
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| The stand-off ended with Abdi, who was armed with a piece of broken glass, being taken to hospital after being Tazered amid reports that plastic bullets were fired. |
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| Captain Phillips, Greengrass's film about the Maersk Alabama hijacking in 2009, was based on the book A Captain's Duty, and starred Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi and Faysal Ahmed. |
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