Research

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...