Sep 25, 2016 | New publications, Politics, Society
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...
Jul 18, 2016 | New publications
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 stories relate to the foundations of...
Jul 10, 2016 | New publications, written documentation
The Saharawi-Moroccan War (1975-1991) was defined by the regional struggle between Morocco and Algeria for leadership in the Maghreb and by international Cold War tensions. This context influenced both the Western Sahara conflict and the social and political...
May 25, 2016 | New publications
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 (or has had) with...
May 2, 2016 | New publications
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 the exile of the Sahrawi people...
Mar 30, 2016 | New publications
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 recognition. © 2016, Catarata The...
