Aliyah Omar is a Somali-Canadian journalist and an Assistant Editor at the Fair Observer. She was born in the Greater Toronto Area and has lived in Edmonton, on Treaty 6 territory, for a decade. With a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Alberta, she has published articles on socio-political, economic and humanitarian concerns. Her work is informed by her life of reading and her experience as a first generation child of post-colonial African lineage. As an avid reader, she is drawn to researching broad topics that better her writing. Aliyah spends her time practicing traditional art and has nearly 15 years of experience as an artist.