Talks and Events
Gaashaan, Somali Shield
Read the rest of the article here (Open ACCESS): Mire S. (2006), Gaashaan: Somali shield. In: Hudson, J. and K. Lagat (Eds.) Hazina: Tradition, Trade and Transition in Eastern Africa. Nairobi: National Museums of Kenya. 29-30. Related publications (OPEN...
Mapping the Archaeology of Somaliland: Religion, Art, Script, Time, Urbanism, Trade and Empire
This paper presents the results of some of the surveys conducted to map archaeological sites of Somaliland and includes almost 100 new and previously unpublished sites. The survey work was conducted by several of Somaliland’s Department of Archaeology...
Sada Mire, la première et l’unique archéologue somalienne
Sada Mire est une archéologue bien particulière. En effet, sa nationalité la rend unique, elle est somalienne, plus précisément de la partie autoproclamée indépendante de la Somalie, le Somaliland. Elle est la première femme somalienne archéologue. Aucune...
Dutch Newspaper NRC interviews Sada Mire: De enige archeologe van Somaliland
The only archaeologist of Somaliland As a 14-year-old Somali refugee, she came to Sweden. Now she works as an archaeologist in Somaliland. Sada Mire is the only archaeologist of Somaliland. "That often means choosing between doing scientific research or...
Swedish Newspaper DN interviews Sada Mire: Somalias enda arkeolog är från Malmö
Sada Mire was 14 years old when she came to Malmö as a refugee from Somalia. Today she is the only archeologist of the old home country. Her goal is to dig the history of the crisis-stricken region. It is a project full of risks. Violence and political...
The Sunday Times – Interview with Sada Mire on saving cave paintings
Eyewitness: Race to save African cave paintings Prehistoric art in the Gulf of Aden is in danger of being destroyed by developers and looters, warns a British archeologist A British archeologist whose team has discovered a spectacular array of prehistoric...
Sada Mire appears in PBS’s Africa’s Great Civilisations
In his six-hour series, AFRICAS GREAT CIVILIZATIONS, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. This is a breathtaking and personal journey through two hundred thousand years...
Dr Sada Mire honoured for her development of archaeology and tourism in Somaliland
Dr Sada Mire ayaa lagu amaanay oo loogu mahad celiyay howsha ay muddo tobon sano ah ka qabatay horumarinta aasaarta iyo dalxiiska Somaliland. Dr Sada Mire waxay soo bandhigtay cilmibaaris ay ku samaysay goobaha taariikhiga ah ee Somaliland, iyo fursad...
NewScientist features Sada Mire: We need culture in a time of war
As a child she was forced to flee Somalia. Now Sada Mire is back, uncovering ancient rock art and ruined towns. She told Curtis Abraham what it’s like to be the only working archaeologist in the region, and why she believes cultural heritage remains a...
Sada Mire in Discover Magazine: 5 Questions for the Woman Who Found Somalia’s History
After Sada Mire returned to her homeland, she found archaeological treasures that hadn't been seen in thousands of years. When Sada Mire was just 12, her father, a Somali police official, was executed by the country’s brutal Barre regime, which saw him as...
PHYS.ORG – Interview with Sada Mire
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 most pristine...
Sada Mire delivers keynote on Heritage under Threat and Global Challenges
Armed conflicts are currently threatening heritage at scales that seemed inconceivable only a few years ago. Tangible heritage such as landscapes, sites, monuments and artefacts and intangible heritage such as knowledge, languages and traditions are...
Sada Mire speaks at the Princeton University colloquium: African Memory & the Crisis of the Present
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Protecting cultural heritage in times of conflict
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...
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 project was facilitated by the British Institute in Eastern Africa,...