• New publicación – Rebelarse en el desierto. Movilizaciones políticas en el oeste sahariano (1932-2020), Francesco Correale, Laura Feliu, Alberto López Bargados
    26 July 2023 Comments Off on New publicación – Rebelarse en el desierto. Movilizaciones políticas en el oeste sahariano (1932-2020), Francesco Correale, Laura Feliu, Alberto López Bargados

    Francesco Correale, Laura Feliu, Alberto López Bargados (ed.), 2022. Rebelarse en el desierto. Movilizaciones políticas en el oeste sahariano (1932-2020), Barcelona, Alborán Bellaterra, 634 p. Abstract: The Western Sahara is an indisputable historical and cultural area. Populated for centuries by human groups essentially dedicated to pastoral nomadism, and united by a common language (Hassaniyya, an Arabic dialect)…

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  • New parution – Conflict and Peace in Western Sahara. The Role of the UN’s Peacekeeping Mission (MINURSO). János Besenyó, Joseph Huddleston, Yahia Zoubir
    26 July 2023 Comments Off on New parution – Conflict and Peace in Western Sahara. The Role of the UN’s Peacekeeping Mission (MINURSO). János Besenyó, Joseph Huddleston, Yahia Zoubir

    János Besenyó, R. Joseph Huddleston, Yahia H. Zoubir (ed.), 2022, Conflict and Peace in Western Sahara. The Role of the UN’s Peacekeeping Mission (MINURSO), London, Routledge, 354 p.   Abstract: This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of MINURSO (the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara), focused on its activities, composition, purpose, and…

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  • L’Ouest saharien Journal – issue 17 – Saharan Imaginaries
    29 March 2023 Comments Off on L’Ouest saharien Journal – issue 17 – Saharan Imaginaries

    In the latest issue of the journal, two articles deal specifically with Western Sahara: Mark Drury : Naming the City: Saharan Urbanization and Disaggregated Sovereignty https://www.cairn.info/revue-l-ouest-saharien-2022-2-page-39.htm Andrea Bastide : Enjeux géopolitiques multiscalaires de la déclaration de Pedro Sánchez (2022) relative au projet marocain d’autonomie du Sahara Occidental https://www.cairn.info/revue-l-ouest-saharien-2022-2-page-145.htm Please find the full summary here: https://www.cairn.info/revue-l-ouest-saharien-2022-2.htm

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  • New Book : Exhortación, by the sahrawi poet Badi Mohamed Salem
    9 November 2022 Comments Off on New Book : Exhortación, by the sahrawi poet Badi Mohamed Salem

    Badi Mohamed Salem, Exhortación, Última Línea, 2022, 110 p., ISBN : 978-84-18492-26-6 This book is a collection of poems that Badi composed in the last stage of his life. In them he confronts with determination human frailty and death, universal experiences. Living in exile in a refugee camp in southern Algeria does not distract the…

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  • Brief history of the Western Sahara – Isaías Barreñada
    11 July 2022 Comments Off on Brief history of the Western Sahara – Isaías Barreñada

    Notice of publication Isaías Barreñada, 2022, Breve historia del Sahara Occidental, Catarata, 144 p. Almost 50 years after Spain’s abandonment, the Sahrawi conflict continues to mark Spanish foreign policy in the region. Western Sahara is an illustrative example of a conflict that the international community has allowed to escalate. As the United Nations has pointed…

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  • Women in the Sahara and the Sahel – L’Ouest saharien journal, issue 16
    11 July 2022 Comments Off on Women in the Sahara and the Sahel – L’Ouest saharien journal, issue 16

    Notice of publication C. Evrard & E. Pettigrew, 2022, Femmes du Sahara-Sahel: Transformation sociales et conditions de vie, Cahiers L’Ouest saharien, n°16, 232 p. There are few works on women in the humanities and social sciences literature on the Saharo-Sahelian region. This dossier reveals precisely these shortcomings while inviting readers to immerse themselves in some…

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  • United States in the Western Sahara War
    11 July 2022 Comments Off on United States in the Western Sahara War

    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…

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  • New German-language edited volume on Western Sahara
    2 March 2022 Comments Off on New German-language edited volume on Western Sahara

    New German-language edited volume on Western Sahara Judit Tavakoli, Manfred O. Hinz, Werner Ruf und Leonie Gaiser (Hrsg.): Westsahara. Afrikas letzte Kolonie Released: dec. 2021 ISBN 978-3-947729-36-4 https://www.regiospectra.de/buecher/westsahara-detail   Summary A series of dramatic events since 2020 have led to the escalation of the Western Sahara conflict: the resumption of war, a further increase in…

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  • New Book : “North of the South” Claire Cécile Mitatre
    14 January 2022 Comments Off on New Book : “North of the South” Claire Cécile Mitatre

    Mitatre C.C., 2021, Au nord du Sud: Espace, valeurs et passion au Sahara atlantique, Paris, Editions de l’EHESS, coll. “En temps & lieux”, 266 p. In the oases of Wad Nûn, there is no apology for autochthony, no preeminence of the first to arrive: everyone comes from elsewhere and takes care to preserve and display…

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  • New publication: The activities of French companies in Western Sahara, crime of colonization? – Antoine Quéré
    22 September 2020 Comments Off on New publication: The activities of French companies in Western Sahara, crime of colonization? – Antoine Quéré

    Reference:  Antoine Quéré, Le crime de colonisation par peuplement - Etude de cas sur les activités économiques des entreprises françaises au Sahara Occidental, Master’s thesis in penal law, Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg, 2020, 104p. Resume: Phosphates, fish, public markets, tourism… The economic resources of Western Sahara are numerous and attract foreign companies, including French companies. But Western Sahara is...

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