The film, produced by “Anthropology in Action ONGD” was directed by Mahmud Awah Bahía, Juan Carlos Gimeno Martín and Juan Ignacio Robles Picón, the three anthropologists of the Autonomous University of Madrid, and was presented for the first time in public in 2014. This film offers a narrative of the Saharawi oral memory based on…
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…
Read moreNew 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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