Sada Mire
A Somali Archaeologist
Date of Birth:
She was born in 1977
A Bit About Sada Mire
Per Wikipedia, Sada Mire was born in Hargeisa, Somaliland, in 1977 before relocating to Mogadishu with her family. Her father was as a police official who died during the early stages of the collapse of the Somali state when she was 12. After this traumatic experience, in 1991, she fled Somalia with her mother and siblings on a relative's lorry during the Somali Civil War. Mire and her identical twin, Sohur, emigrated to Sweden where an older sister lived and received asylum. The twins later moved to the United Kingdom to study. Mire studied Scandinavian pre-history and archaeozoology at Lund University in Sweden before receiving a BA degree in History of Art/Archaeology of Africa and Asia at SOAS, University of London in 2005, and subsequently an MA in African Archaeology in 2006 and PhD degree in Archaeology in 2009 at University College London. Sada Mire had a very interesting life and education.
Work Experience
2006 - 2007
2016 - 2020
A Few Other Things She Did
In 2006, she discovered rock art places that she explored and made a website about where they are located. The website is called, Cyark.
In 2007, she was motivated to learn the history of Somaliland, her homeland, she took up fellowship under The Departmet Of Art and Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
Sada Mire's work for public access to education is illustrated by her Massive online open course on 'Heritage under Threat', launched in December 2016. Is been continued until 2020.
Per Wikipedia, in 2011, Sada Mire proposed to UNESCO the digital preservation of Somali potential World Heritage. She's a speaker of the first UNESCO Debate organized by UNESCO Netherlands at the RMO, September 2016. In September 2018, Sada Mire participated to Hague Talks "How can we Invest in Sustainable Peace?". Sada Mire on BBC World Service radio documentary "Stories on the Rocks", December 2018.
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