Publications
Authored Books
2013 Taha, S. Attachment to abandoned heritage: The case of Suakin, Sudan. Archaeopress, BAR International Series S2477, Oxford, UK
2023 Taha , S. (In Press) The Palaeolithic in Sudan: From Arkell to the Present. will be published by: Archaeopress, BAR International Series
Edited Books
2011 Chatzoglou, A, Archontia, P, Sørensen ML, Taha S (eds). Historic cities, Special Edition, Historic Environment, Vol.23(1), Proceedings of the Heritage
Conference: ‘The Future of Historic Cities: Challenges, Contradictions, continuities’, held at the McDonald Institute For Archaeological Research 18th -19th April 2009.
2004 Wahida, G, Wahida, S, Smith L, Rose, P (eds). ‘Fifty years in the Archaeology of Africa: Themes in archaeological theory and practice’, Papers in honour of John
Alexander. Azania Special Volume XXXIX 2004, The British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi.
Forthcoming:
2024 Taha , S. (In Press) The Palaeolithic in Sudan: From Arkell to the Present. will be published by: Archaeopress, BAR International Series.
Book Contributions
2023 Taha. S. Frankincense, Myrrh, Incense & Aromatic Plants through Time: From Pre Kerma to the
present. In: Proceedings Of the 14th International Conference For Nubian Studies, Paris 2018. Volume XX, 2023.Marie Millet,
Vincent Rondot, Frederic Payraudeau, Pierre Tallet (eds), Louvre, Paris:871-892
2022 Taha, S. Suakin, between the sea and the desert: connected landscapes. In: Networked spaces: the spatiality of networks in the Red Sea and Western
Indian Ocean. Proceedings of the Red Sea Conference IX, Lyon, 2-5 July 2019, edited by Caroline Durand, Julie Marchand, Bérangère Redon
and Pierre Schneider Lyon, Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée – Jean Pouilloux, 2022, PP: 305-326
2021 Taha, S. Nubia: A Land that Continues to be Cherished by its People. Published in: Ancient and Contemporary Sudan, Africa
Update Vol. XXVIII, Issue 4 (Fall 2021). (Online).
2021 Taha, S. Mega Developments in Africa: Lessons from the Meroe Dam. In African Heritage Challenges (pp. 127-155). Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore
Urbanization and Development in Africa book series, (eds) Sorenson, ML, Ballie, B. Published by Palgrave Macmillan.
2020. Taha, S. ‘Frankincense: traditions rooted in the Sudanese DNA’ in proceedings of the Red Sea VIII International Conference on the Peoples of the
Sea region and their environment, held at: The Polish Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, 4-9 July 2017. Polish
Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 29.
2019 Taha, S. ‘Sacred Journeys: A Lucrative Revenue Stream’, in Pilgrimages, Ontologies And Subjectivities.
In Neoliberal Economics (eds) Bella & Yothers), Proceedings for a workshop held at the University of Sussex in 2016. Journeys, 20(1), PP:7-30 .
2018 Taha, S. 'A Life Shaped by the Sea: Maritime Heritage in Suakin'. In Stories of Globalisation: The Red Sea and the Persian Gulf
from Late Prehistory to Early Modernity. Publishers Brill: Leiden, Boston, PP: 482-506.
2016 Taha, S. ' Shrine visiting as heritage.' In Sites of Pilgrimage, Sites of Heritage. Exploring the Interface between Religion and Heritage in Tourist
Destinations, edited by Michael Di Giovani and Rana P.B. Singh, special Issue of The International Journal of Tourism Anthropology,
as published by Inderscience Publishers. International Journal of Tourism Anthropology, 5(1-2), pp.71-94.
2014a Taha, S. 'The value of memory: Suakin's cultural heritage-significant for whom?' International Journal of Intangible Heritage, Vol. 9, pp: 55-67.
2014b Taha, S. 'Still a place to call home? Development and the changing character of place.' The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice, 5(1), pp: 17-35.
2014c Taha, S. 'Vikings Ships'. Published by Civilizations in Contact, University of Cambridge, under a creative Commons.
2013 Taha, S. ‘ Whose development? Challenges of development in urban centres’. In Heritage Studies: Stories in the making, edited by Meghan Bowe,
Bianca Carpeneti, Ian Dull, Jessie Lipkowitz, Cambridge Scholars Publisher.
2012 Taha, S. ‘Not the way to do it: The case of Suakin, Sudan.' In Sérgio Lira, Rogério Amodéda, Cristina Pinherio (eds). Sharing cultures 2012, Proceedings of
the 3nd International Conference on Sustainable Development, Porto, Portugal 19-22 June, Barcelos, Portugal: Green Lines Institute.
2011 Taha, S. 'Suakin’s sacred landscape: shrine visitation.' In Sérgio Lira, Rogério Amodéda, Cristina Pinherio (eds). Sharing cultures, Proceedings of the 2nd
International Conference on Intangible Heritage, Tommar, Portugal 3-6 July. Barcelos, Portugal: Green Lines InstituteIn.
Co-Authored Work
2022 Laurence Smith, Michael Mallinson, Jacke Phillips, Shadia Taha, Colin Breen, Wes Forsythe, Ali Mohamed Abdelrahman, 2022. From Gujarat to the Red
Sea. The connectivity of the port of Suakin, Sudan, within the western Indian Ocean. In: Networked spaces: the spatiality of networks in the Red Sea
and Western Indian Ocean. Proceedings of the Red Sea Conference IX, Lyon, 2-5 July 2019, edited by Caroline Durand, Julie Marchand, Bérangère
Redon and Pierre Schneider Lyon, Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée – Jean Pouilloux, 2022, PP: 119-140.
2022 Adam, A., & Taha, S. Archaeology in Sudan: A Sudanese Perspective. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Publisher: Oxford University Press,
May 2022.
2020 Smith, L., Taha, S., Philips, J. and Mallinson, M., 2020. Trade and'treasure': the role of Suakin in the movement of valuables (15th–19th centuries). Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 29(1).
2018 Smith, L, Phillips, J, Taha, S, Mallinson, M, Ashley, KS, Mohamed, AA. 'Archaeology, trade and pilgrimage at Suakin.' In Matthieu Honegger (ed)
Nubian Archaeology in the XXIst Century: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference for Nubian Studies, Neuchâtel, 1st-6th September 2014,
635-644. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 27h3. Leuven: Peeters 2011
2011 Chatzoglou, A, Polyzoudi, A, Sørensen, MLS, Taha, S. ‘Introduction’, In Historic cities, Historic Environment, Chatzoglou et.al (eds.). Vol. 23(1), pp.8-15
(Special Edition). Proceedings of the Heritage Conference ‘The Future of Cities: Challenges, Contradictions, continuities’, held at the McDonald
Institute for Archaeological Research 18th -19th April 2009
0 2010 Baillie, B, Chatzoglou, A, Taha, S. Packaging the past: the commodification of heritage. Heritage management, (1), pp.51-71.
20 2004 Wahida, G , Wahida, S. ‘John Amays Alexander: A Short Biography’. In Fifty years in the Archaeology of Africa: themes in archaeological theory and practice.
papers in honour of John Alexander. Azania Special Volume XXX1X2004; The British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi.
2021 Smith, L, Taha, S, Phillips, JS, Mallinson, MDS, Breen, C, Forsythe, W, Mohamed, AA. (In press). 'From Gujarat to the Red Sea: the connectivity of the
‘small island’ port of Suakin, Sudan, within the western Indian Ocean.' In Proceedings of the Red Sea IX held at Lyon, France, 2-5th July 2019.
2021 Smith, L, Taha S, Phillips JS, Mallinson MDS. (In press) 'Trade and 'Treasure': the role of Suakin in the movement of valuables,15th– 9th centuries.' In
Coveted treasure, The economy of natural resources: extraction, processing and trade. Proceedings of the Red Sea VIII Conference in Warsaw, 4-9 July
2017. Oxford: Archaeopress.
2020 Phillips, J, Smith, L, Taha, S. (In press) ‘Suakin by land and by Sea’ In Proceedings of the African Conference Connections, contribution and complexity:
Africa’s later Holocene in global context. Davies, M, MacDonald K, J (eds). Cambridge: McDonald Monographs.
2012 Smith, L, Taha, S. 'Tribute to John Alexander’. In Proceedings of the African Conference Connections, contribution and complexity: Africa’s later Holocene
in global context, held in Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 21st- _ 23rd September 2012.
In Press
2024 Taha, S. War on Heritage and the People in Sudan’s Current Conflict, to be published in the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict
2024 Taha, S. Vibrant religious traditions: the Red Sea region, Eastern Sudan. To be presented at the Red Sea XI Conference ‘From Local to Global-The role of local communities throughout the Red Sea history’. 5-7 June of 2024, Hosted by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.
2024 Taha, S. The Meroeric Empire: Sensory Practices. Presented at the International Symposium of Egyptology organised by Shiekh Anta Dipo University and the Black Civilisation Museum to celebrate the centennial birth of Sheikh Anta Dipo. Dakar, Senegal 26 -29 December 2023.
2024 Taha , S, The Beja Nomads of Eastern Sudan: Endurance, resistance and survival, Contribution to book Title: De/Colonialism from Within: Archaeological and HistoricalPerspectives from Africa. Guest Editors: Guest Editors: Timothy Clack and Shadreck Chirikure.
2024 Taha, S. Fusion of practices in post Ottoman Suakin, Sudan. n Proceedings of The Red Sea X Conference. Held in Rethymno, Crete, Greece. Hosted
By the Institute of Mediterranean Studies and University of Crete, 6-9 July 2022.
Co-Authored Work In Press
2024 Phillips, J, Smith, L, Taha S. ‘Suakin by land anm by Sea’ In Proceedings of the African Conference Connections, contribution and complexity: Africa’s late
Holocene in global context. M. Davies and K. MacDonald (eds), Cambridge: McDonald Monographs
Work in Progress
Taha, S. ‘They only came yesterday’: Rashyida and boat building in Suakin, Sudan
Taha, S. Researching children in heritage: Methods I used for research with children
Taha, S. Methods I used to investigate attachment: Methods I used to examine attachment to abandoned heritage
Taha, S. Oral Histories and Traditions in Suakin
Co-authored Work in Progress
Smith, L,Taha, S. Tribute to John Alexander’. In Proceedings of the African Conference Connections, contribution and complexity: later Holocene in global
context, held in Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 21st_23rd September 2012.