Talks and Events
Mogadishu – Heritage and Preservation
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...
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 executive director of the Horn Heritage...
Sada Mire’s fieldwork joined by National Geographic TV
National Geographic - “Don’t Tell My Mum I am in Somalia”. Sada Mire guided the presenter, Diego Bunuel, through a selection of sites, such as rock art site of Laas-Geel, in Somaliland. Watch video on Youtube Back to Media
Dr. Sada Mire at Laas Geel explaining rock art in Somali
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Polish Newspaper Wyborcza interviews Sada Mire: Indiana Jones z Somalii
When, as a child, she had to flee Somalia's civil war, she did not suppose that after many years she would return to discover monuments from thousands of years ago as the first and only archaeologist in this country. A woman to be next. Thanks to her,...
Somali-Swedish Archaeologist Sada Mire and Iraqi-British Architect Zaha Hadid
WHAT THE WORLD’S ONLY ACTIVE SOMALI ARCHAEOLOGIST HAS IN COMMON WITH THE IRAQI-BRITISH WINNER OF THE PRITZKER ARCHITECTURE PRIZE They are both women leaders born to the predominately Muslim nations. Forced to leave for the Western world, where they...
BBC Radio – The Forum’s Bridget Kendall interviews Sada Mire
The aftermath of war and marriage: How do you put a country and a people back together again after a traumatic conflict? And how do individuals come to terms with the end of a marriage? We hear from Somali Archaeologist Sada Mire who argues food and...
A CNN Hero – Dr Sada Mire Somali Archaeologist
IF you're familiar with the title "the Horn of Africa" then it's very likely you've seen images or watched news reports of the famine and war which has beleaguered parts of the region and brought its people to their knees. But the region also has a rich...
Sada Mire: “Io, archeologa per salvare la Somalia”
Sada Mire ha 35 anni perché a 14 ha resistito appesa a una corda fuori da un camion che correva via da Mogadiscio, via dalla Somalia in guerra. Il resto, dopo, diventa quasi facile: da rifugiata in Svezia, studiare così tanto, lei e la sorella gemella, da...
Sada Mire speaks on TEDSalon Travels in Time, Space and Imaginations
Sada Mire speaks on ‘We need culture in times of war’ TEDSalon Travels in Time, Space and Imaginations .....Next, Somali archeologist Sada Mire took the audience to the land that she had to flee as a child and where she now heads the Department...
CBC’s Carol Off interviews Sada Mire
CBC Canada's Carol Off interviews Sada Mire on her archaeological work in Somaliland Link to Audio File Back to Media
Sada Mire: Uncovering Somalia’s heritage
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...
BBC World Service -OUTLOOK interview with Sada Mire
Mathew Banister of BBC World Service OUTLOOK program interviews Sada Mire about her work in Somaliland Link to the Audio File Back to Media
NewScientist ‘Somali Archaeologist: 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 toldCurtis Abraham what it’s like to be the only working archaeologist in the region, and why she believes cultural heritage remains a...
Global Post interview with Sada Mire: ‘Protecting Somaliland’s endangered cave paintings.’
HARGEISA, Somaliland — Follow an unmarked dirt road to a dry riverbed in the scrubby, northwestern Somali plains and in the shadows, beneath the sandstone outcroppings, are remarkably well-preserved paintings. They date back between five and 11,000 years...