PHYS.ORG – Interview with Sada Mire: ‘Grotto galleries show early Somali life’ A galaxy of colourful animal and human sketches adorn the caves in the rocky hills of this arid wilderness in northern Somalia, home to Africa’s earliest known and...
In 2015, the Temple of Baalshamin in Palmyra, Syria was destroyed by IS. Unfortunately, this event does not stand on its own. Cultural heritage is facing many threats nowadays. The world has recently witnessed deplorable acts of deliberate destruction of important...
The Unbreakable Pearl: Mogadishu in World Memory (duration 2004-present) Dr Mire’s book, The Unbreakable Pearl, is about her hometown Mogadishu, the Pearl of the Indian Ocean. Sada conducted a pilot project on the town of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. This...
Somaliland Tourism Feasibility Study Dr Sada Mire led a collaborative research project with Horn Heritage Organisation (Somaliland), Dunira Strategy (UK) and The Ministry of Sports, Tourism and Youth Affairs on Somaliland cultural heritage tourism feasibility. The...
Sustainability and Development in the East Africa – the past and present farmers and pastoralists This on-going research direction on Sustainability in the Horn of Africa unites different research, some relating to the earliest evidence of pastoralism and farming in...
