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...
Sep 19, 2019 | New publications
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 people with a unique defence of...
Apr 9, 2019 | New publications
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 oppression...
