• Call for papers – Archeology – L’Ouest saharien journal
    1 December 2017 Comments Off on Call for papers – Archeology – L’Ouest saharien journal

    The 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…

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  • Moyent-Orient journal : a special folder on Western Sahara here online
    17 November 2017 Comments Off on Moyent-Orient journal : a special folder on Western Sahara here online

    The Moyen-Orient journal published in the 4th quarter of 2016, No. 32, a special folder on Western Sahara. This issue has 4 contributions, of which you will find the PDF below: WILSON_MO32- CORREALE_MO32 DEL-MORAL_MO32- BOULAY-BUQUET_MO32 We express our warmest thanks to the director of this publication, Guillaume Fourmont, who kindly accepted that OUISO put these…

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  • New parution : Études de linguistique ouest-saharienne – Catherine Taine-Cheikh
    27 September 2017 Comments Off on New parution : Études de linguistique ouest-saharienne – Catherine Taine-Cheikh

    This first volume of a series of four carries the subtitle Sociolinguistique de l'area hassanophone. It consists of twelve studies published between 1989 and 2013, which deal with aspects of the relations that Moorish society maintains (or has maintained) with languages ​​in various circumstances, be it Arabic in its different varieties (dialectal or not) Berber,...

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  • Call for papers – Workshop June 2018 : Margins, Marginality, Marginalization and Contestation in Middle East and North Africa
    26 September 2017 Comments Off on Call for papers – Workshop June 2018 : Margins, Marginality, Marginalization and Contestation in Middle East and North Africa

    The workshop “Margins, Marginalities, Marginalization and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)”, which is proposed here, will examine the margins and forms of marginalities, spatial, economic, social, cultural and political existing in the MENA, as well as the various processes of marginalization that produce them. A certain number of researchers analysing the...

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  • International Workshop “Human rights in Western Sahara”, Sorbonne, October 20th 2017
    14 August 2017 Comments Off on International Workshop “Human rights in Western Sahara”, Sorbonne, October 20th 2017

    International Workshop : “Human Rights protection in Western Sahara : instruments, actors, collaborations” Organizers : International Academic Observatory on Western Sahara (OUISO), CEPED, Association Américaine de Juristes (AAJ), ACAT Free registration but compulsory, subject to availability, by email at : contact.ouiso@gmail.com Access : Amphithéâtre Emile Durkheim, Sorbonne, Galerie Cl. Bernard, escalier I, 1er étage, 14,…

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  • « Le Maroc est en train de modifier sa stratégie sur le Sahara occidental »
    5 August 2017 588 Comments on « Le Maroc est en train de modifier sa stratégie sur le Sahara occidental »

    Khadija Mohsen-Finan analyzes Rabat strategy changes after its reintegration into the African Union and the arrival of a new UN Secretary-General. Interview made by Charlotte Bozonnet LE MONDE 08.03.2017, 15h20 http://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2017/03/08/le-maroc-est-en-train-de-modifier-sa-strategie-sur-le-sahara-occidental_5091331_3212.html

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  • Sovereignty in Exile A Saharan Liberation Movement Governs
    4 August 2017 1,684 Comments on Sovereignty in Exile A Saharan Liberation Movement Governs

    New publication on Western Sahara Sovereignty in Exile explores sovereignty and state power through the case of a liberation movement that set out to make itself into a state. The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) was founded by the Polisario Front in the wake of Spain’s abandonment of its former colony, the disputed Western Sahara….

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  • Journal “L’Ouest saharien” online via l’Harmattan
    4 August 2017 Comments Off on Journal “L’Ouest saharien” online via l’Harmattan

    It 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…

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  • video on the situation of Sahrawi refugees in Bordeaux
    4 August 2017 Comments Off on video on the situation of Sahrawi refugees in Bordeaux

    Film directed by Alice Rey and Manon Maunoir. Editing by Adrien Camus, translated by Marcelin Cabrera. In the framework of the Master 2 Pro “Health, Migration and Mediation” seminar of visual anthropology of the of the University of Bordeaux, in partnership with the association “The third door on the left”. An enlightening testimony on the…

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  • New publication : Culture et politique dans l’Ouest Saharien
    1 August 2017 Comments Off on New publication : Culture et politique dans l’Ouest Saharien

    The western Saharan region is often described as a "endemic" space of political instability: the secession of Northern Mali in 2012 and the overthrow of Amadou Toumani Touré, renewed tensions in Western Sahara, Eternity, movements and figures of emancipation in Mauritania denouncing the role of political and religious elites in the reproduction of a fundamentally...

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