ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the Maan-soor Hotel in Hargeysa as a political and economic hub which attracts upper-class members of the local society and wealthy transmigrants. Maan-soor is a space where local and international dynamics intersect and in which transnational ties that link Hargeysa to the rest of the world are concretely visible. As such Maan-soor appears both as a place where the nation-state is built and where translocal connections are reproduced. At the same time, the analysis of this hotel calls into question the sense and meaning of locality within the transnational paradigm, as Maan-soor points to the re-emergence of the local as a site where global processes are transformed or constituted by practice.
