Talks and Events
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 Somaliland Tourism...
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 the Horn of Africa and others relating to the material culture, practices and rock art...
Somali Cultural Heritage Management and Development
This ongoing research project by Dr Sada Mire since 2003, has its goal to develop education, management and research of Somali cultural heritage. Part of her research engages communities in the Diaspora but the main part of this research is based in the...
Somali heritage and identity: home and abroad, past and present
This original book project is on Somali heritage and identity, home and abroad, past and present, which includes research on Somali Diaspora community in the UK, Kenya, Scandinavia and the Netherlands. It deals with migration, heritage of refugees, trauma...
Mapping the Archaeology of Somaliland: a community archaeology project
This collaborative project undertakes the most comprehensive survey of archaeological sites in Somaliland carried out together with her team in Somaliland together with the Department of Tourism and Archaeology, Somaliland. The results of some of the...
War and Famine vs. Peace and Fertility: Resilient Societies in the Horn of Africa
This project uses cultural heritage and archaeology as a departure point to tackle global issues in terms war and famine in the Horn of Africa. It uses cultural notions of peace- and fertility making and their manifestations as a base for its data....
Protecting cultural heritage in conflict situations
Violent conflicts all over the world pose a great threat. Not only to the region’s inhabitants, but also to the cultural heritage in the area. This is the subject of the Europe Lecture in The Hague on 13 June. It came as a shock: in May 2015 terror group...
The Guardian – Sada Mire on Somali architecture
I first learned to construct nomadic huts with my grandmother in the summer holidays – spent, whether I liked or not, living in Dayniile, near Mogadishu. Being a Mogadishu girl, living in a comfortable villa, I hated it at first so my father sent, as a...
CNN – Somali Girls Give Back to their Home land
Youtube comment: "Somali Girls educated in Europe go back to give back to their home land. A wonderful story!" Back to Media
CNN African Voices: Sada Mire discovers herself
Sada's personal story, includes a tentative explanation of the ancient Calendar she 'cracked' and views of the extraordinary Fardowsa archaeological site. Video Courtesy Sada Mire Back to Media
Sada Mire TEDtalk
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 executive director of the Horn Heritage...
Sada Mire featured in New African Magazine
Sada Mire: Excavating African History, Redefining Our Narrative Sada Mire is the world’s only Somaliland archaeologist, who has taken on the task of telling Africa’s forgotten stories hidden in some of its undiscovered ruins. Fuelled by her passion to see...
Sada Mire’s MOOC ‘Heritage under Threat’
What is your heritage? Who defines heritage? Why is heritage under threat? How can we protect heritage? This new Leiden University course is presented by Dr. Sada Mire from the Faculty of Archeology and the LDE Centre for Global Heritage and Development....
Digitally Preserving Heritage at Risk: Somaliland Rock Art- Laas Geel, Dhagah Kureh and Dhagah Nabi Gelay
The complex cave and rock shelters of Laas Geel, Dhagah Kureh, and Dhagah Nabi Galay lie just 30-45 minutes outside of Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, a self-declared republic and autonomous region of Somalia. Exhibiting outstanding Neolithic rock...
Heritage Under Threat as a global challenge
This book explores the current problems arising from heritage under threat and in times of conflict and natural crises with case studies from around the world. This educational research project aims to bring a personal element to the understanding and...