Publications

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of MINURSO (United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara), focusing on its activities, composition, purpose and operational future. The focus of the book is broad, examining...

This book is a collection of poems written by Badi in the last phase of his life. In it, he resolutely confronts human fragility and death, universal experiences. Living in exile in a refugee camp in southern Algeria did not deter the...

This is the story of an inexperienced young girl who sets off into the Mauritanian desert in search of the great nomadic Rgaybat, “children of the clouds”, and ends up finding guerrilla fighters. Following her through the comical and...

Almost 50 years after Spain abandoned the Sahara, the Sahrawi conflict continues to shape Spanish foreign policy in the region. The Western Sahara is an illustrative example of a conflict that the international community has allowed to...

The Western Sahara is an undeniable historical and cultural area. Populated for centuries by human groups essentially engaged in pastoral nomadism, united by a common language (Hassaniyya, an Arabic dialect) and an Islamic tradition, the...

A series of dramatic events since 2020 have led to the escalation of the Western Sahara conflict: the resumption of the war, a new upsurge in human rights violations, the Trump administration's recognition of Morocco's annexation in...

Claire Cécile Mitatre is an anthropologist and a lecturer at the Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University and the Paris-Saclay Ecole Polytechnique, as well as a member of CERCE (EA 4584-E1). Since 2003, she has been conducting research on the...

This book analyses the policy of North American administrations in the Sahara conflict through the recently declassified documents of the Secretary of State. In its early years, the war in Western Sahara was in favour of the Saharawi...

This anthology brings together a collection of Sahrawi national poems. Translated from Hassanya into Spanish by the anthropology collective Generacion de la Amistad, they plunge us into the discovery of an art that is essential to Sahrawi...

Legendary for more than three thousand years, fierce nomadic warriors and camel-drivers who dominated the trans-Saharan caravan trade, the Saharawis are today admired as soldier-statesmen and refugee-diplomats. They are a proud nomadic...

Spain's former African colonies - Equatorial Guinea and Western Sahara - share similar histories. Both are under the yoke of authoritarian regimes and are recognised by human rights organisations as among the worst places in the world for...

In 1961, the Women's Section of the FET and JONS began to establish itself in the Spanish colonies of Africa with the functions it had performed in the metropolis since 1939. This institution, born as the women's wing of the Spanish...

In July 1894, Marine Infantry Lieutenant Joaquín España painted the following picture of the natives of the African coast: "They are a pain in the ass, demanding, vindictive, distrustful and cunning, very used to loitering, rape and...

The Western Sahara conflict remains little known and too rarely documented, particularly in France. Yet this territorial “dispute”, which dates back to the 1960s and 1970s, is essential to understand today in all its complexity, as it is...

Profit over Peace in Western Sahara examines the role of natural resources in the occupation of Africa's last colony. Little known to the general public, the United Nations considers the territory of Western Sahara to be awaiting...

This book looks at the evolution of the Western Sahara within the borders imposed on the local populations by the Spanish and French colonisers, an evolution marked by a late decolonisation process which, according to international...

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 of recent developments from the global to the local scenes, including the collapse...

As part of the so-called Barcelona Process, the European Union has signed several bilateral agreements with Morocco aimed at consolidating their economic integration. The 2000 EU-Morocco Association Agreement provides the general legal...

This investigation is based on the testimonies of 154 Sahrawi mine victims on both sides of the wall built by Morocco and key witnesses. It gives an account of the impact of this silenced problem, the alteration of the Bedouin way of life...

Drawing on the structural analysis of myths, Pierre Bonte proposes a method for dealing with West-Saharan “origin narratives”, whose status in the field of oral literature (legends, myths, epics, saga) remains unclear. These origin...

This first volume in a series of four is subtitled Sociolinguistique de l'aire hassanophone. It brings together twelve studies published between 1989 and 2013, dealing with different aspects of the relationship that Moorish society has...

Generacion de la amistad, the very first bilingual Spanish-French anthology of contemporary Sahrawi poetry, brings together the voices of eight great poets. Through a selection of their most beautiful poems, this work tells the story of...

Spain withdrew from Western Sahara in 1976 without complying with the obligation to fully decolonise the territory. Forty years later, the issue is still unresolved. Morocco continues to occupy the territory, without international...