Sahar bint Ali Dada

Professor of Modern and Contemporary History

Prof. Sahar bint Ali Dadaa is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah. Her field covers the history of the Arabian Peninsula and the Hijaz in the modern era and its political and social transformations, and the history of Makkah and its institutions. Her duties include teaching, supervising graduate research and publishing in peer-reviewed journals, with particular attention to archival sources and local documents and to reading historical narrative critically, distinguishing what is established from what is merely repeated.