Feb 25, 2022 | New publications
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 territory situated between the...
Dec 25, 2021 | New publications
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 violation of...
Oct 28, 2021 | New publications
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 Saharawis of Western Sahara,...
Oct 26, 2021 | New publications
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 side. The Polisario Front came to...
Nov 25, 2020 | Law, New publications, written documentation
Phosphates, fish, public markets, tourism… The economic resources of Western Sahara are numerous and attract foreign companies, including French companies. But Western Sahara is a territory with a particular legal status and French criminal law could thwart the...
Sep 21, 2020 | New publications
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 society. © 2020, Última Línea...
