De 14e Europalezing heeft als thema ‘Cultural Heritage in Times of Conflict. Irina Bokova, algemeen directeur van UNESCO, is de keynote speaker. Sada Mire, archeologisch onderzoeker van de Universiteit Leiden en het Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global...
Sada Mire gives the Leiden ASA Annual Lecture The Importance of a Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of the African Past The Leiden African Studies Assembly (LeidenASA) held its second Annual Meeting on Thursday 8 December. Leiden University has some 120 scholars...
Dr Sada Mire is currently the only active archaeologist working in Somalia today. After decades of colonialism, civil conflict and poverty, significant sites of importance in Somalia, both architectural and cultural, have been left to ruin. With her local team, Mire...
Sada Mire presents ‘Cultural heritage: a basic human right’ Sada Mire is a Somalian archaeologist. She lived the first fifteen years of her life in Mogadishu, until 1991, when she settled in Sweden, as a result of the conflict in north-east Africa. She is founder and...
Sada Mire fled Somalia’s civil war as a child, and lived as a refugee in Sweden. But now she is back in the Horn of Africa as an archaeologist, making some incredible discoveries. Sada Mire is only 35, but she has already revealed a dozen sites that could be...
