Jun 19, 2025 | History, New publications, OUISO, Society
Gabriele Volpato is a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy. He has investigated different facets of human-nature relationships among Cuban peasants, Sahrawi refugees and nomads of Western Sahara, and Kenyan...
Jun 18, 2025 | History, New publications, OUISO, Society
Arena en los ojos is an ambitious and careful essay that brings together 15 years of research, reading and travel (Larache, Sidi Ifni, El Aaiún…) on this history of which we know very little: that of the Spanish colonies in these two parts of Africa (distinct...
Aug 25, 2023 | News, Society, written documentation
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Paris, 17th of December 2020, Dear Colleague, Dear CEO of IRD, In June 2020, our observatory published on its website a news item about the signing of research conventions between the IRD and some Moroccan communities or institutions...
Aug 25, 2023 | Coming events, Communication, News, Society
“A webinar to highlight a largely forgotten conflict! co-organised by Non-Violence XXI and the Observatoire universitaire international du Sahara Occidental (OUISO) Programme: “Non-violent action in a context of renewed war in Western Sahara” After...
Aug 25, 2023 | Culture, Geography, History, New parutions, New publications, News, Politics, Society, written documentation
It is possible to order different issues of the multidisciplinary journal “L’Ouest Saharien” through the website of the Parisian publishing house L’Harmattan. Journal published since 1998 by Emmanuel Martinoli, Pierre Boilley and Ali Omar Yara....
Aug 25, 2023 | New parutions, News, Politics, Society, written documentation
New 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...
