The policy of the North American administrations in the Sahara conflict via the recently declassified documents of the Secretary of State Domingo Garí, Estados Unidos en la guerra del Sáhara Occidental, Catarata, 2021, 224 p. The war in Western Sahara was in its first years in favor of the Saharawi side. The Polisario Front came…
Read moreBONTE Pierre, Identités et changement socioculturel dans l’Ouest saharien (Mauritanie, Sahara Occidental, Maroc), Paris, Karthala, 2017 This book deals with the evolution of the West Saharan region within the boundaries imposed on local populations by the Spanish and French colonizers, a development marked by a process of late decolonization and still unfinished according to international…
Read moreASAI V Fifth Conference of the Association for African Studies in Italy (Associazione per gli Studi Africani in Italia) Plural Africa : Politics, knowledge and social dynamics in time and space Department of Political and Social Sciences – University of Bologna, 5-7 September 2018 ASAI V Bologna – Call for panels – Eng
Read moreThe multidisciplinary journal L’Ouest saharien is launching a call for papers on the theme: “Archeology of the North-West Sahara: prospective review of research and conservation of sites and collections”. The coordination of this issue is entrusted to Robert Vernet. See the details of the call here: Appel à articles – Archéologie du Nord-Ouest saharien – Revue…
Read moreIt is possible to order different issues of the multidisciplinary journal “L’Ouest Saharien” through the website of the Parisian publishing house L’Harmattan. Journal published since 1998 by Emmanuel Martinoli, Pierre Boilley and Ali Omar Yara. This journal is the only academic journal in the region and a valuable source of information and analysis for students…
Read moreLast publication of our late colleague, Pierre Bonte Bonte Pierre, 2016, Les récits d’origine. Contribution à la connaissance du passé ouest-saharien (Mauritanie, Maroc, Sahara Occidental, Algérie et Mali), Paris, Karthala En s’inspirant de l’analyse structurale des mythes, Pierre Bonte propose une méthode de traitement des « récits d’origine » ouest-sahariens dont le statut est resté…
Read moreFifth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES-5) Three Cultures Foundation of the Mediterranean, Seville, Spain, 16-20 July 2018 The World Congress seeks to address questions, exchange and explore information on the Middle East in the broadest sense. The invitation is aimed at scholars, researchers, educators, students, professionals and other groups interested in studies on…
Read moreNew international publication, edited by our colleagues Raquel Ojeda Garcia, Irene Fernández-Molina, Victoria Veguilla: Global, Regional and Local Dimensions of Western Sahara’s Protracted Decolonization : When a Conflict Gets Old This book explores the traces of the passage of time on the protracted and intractable conflict of Western Sahara. The authors offer a multilevel analysis…
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