Music as a refuge
by editors@theworld.org (Caroline Losneck) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6N8QZ)
Hadith Abdulle taught himself to play the oud as a child in Somalia, a childhood disrupted by civil war. Through the upheaval in his life, including racism in the US, this instrument has been his constant and his refuge. He now teaches it at a center for grieving children in Maine. Reporter Caroline Losneck has his story.