Sada Mire

Doctor Sada Mire
Born	1977 July
Education	Masters and Ph.D. in archeology
Organization	Horn Heritage Organization
Awards	2011 Sweden Supertalent Awards

Dr. Sada Mire (born 1977) is a Swedish-Somali archaeologist, art historian and presenter who currently serves as assistant professor at the faculty of archeology, Leiden University. She is a public intellectual and heritage activist who has argued that cultural heritage is a basic human need in her 2014 TEDxEuston talk. She is the only active archaeologist working in Somaliland, a self-declared state in the horn of Africa, where she became the Director of Antiquities in 2007. Originally from the Somali capital of Mogadishu, Mire fled the country at the start of the civil war at the age of 15. She then traveled to Sweden seeking asylum. She has since returned to the Horn of Africa as an archaeologist, making some notable discoveries. Mire currently works as assistant professor of archaeology at Leiden University.

Born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1977, her father was a police official who was killed due to being a possible political threat when Mire 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 at Lund University before receiving a Bachelor's degree at SOAS, University of London and a Masters and Ph.D. in archaeology at University College London.

She has conducted field research in northern Somalia, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Kenya, and Egypt, and has worked for the United Nations Development Program. A TED-speaker, she has participated on the editorial boards, including African Archaeological Review.

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