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Brief history of the Western Sahara – Isaías Barreñada
Notice of publication Isaías Barreñada, 2022, Breve historia del Sahara Occidental, Catarata, 144 p. Almost 50 years after Spain's abandonment, the Sahrawi conflict continues to mark Spanish foreign policy in the region. Western Sahara is an illustrative example of a...
Four complaints for torture on Sahrawi political prisoners
Four complaints for torture filed against Morocco before the UN Committee against Torture On Thursday June 9, four complaints denouncing violations of the provisions of the United Nations Convention against Torture were filed against the State of Morocco before the UN...
International Workshop – Young scholars – Online – November 30
Western Sahara: A Multidisciplinary, Transregional Journée d’Etude The Western Sahara International Academic Observatory (OUISO) invites you to participate in an online workshop on Western Sahara and its regional context. The workshop is conceived as an...
New PhD thesis: the role of Minurso in Western Sahara – Meriem Naïli
NAILI Meriem, Peacekeeping and International Human Rights Law: Interrogating United Nations Mechanisms through a Study of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara, PhD Dissertation, defended on 5 May 2022, Supervisors : Dr Irene Fernandez-Molina & Dr...
New Book : Exhortación, by the sahrawi poet Badi Mohamed Salem
Badi Mohamed Salem, Exhortación, Última Línea, 2022, 110 p., ISBN : 978-84-18492-26-6 This book is a collection of poems that Badi composed in the last stage of his life. In them he confronts with determination human frailty and death, universal experiences. Living in...
Latest issue of the Spanish Yearbook of International Law
Some papers of this last issue are dedicated to Western Sahara : Morocco, occupying power of Western Sahara: some notes about Spain’s foreign legal policy, the role of the Spanish doctrine and the rule of law in international relations Jaume Ferrer Lloret Is autonomy...
L’Ouest saharien Journal – issue 17 – Saharan Imaginaries
In the latest issue of the journal, two articles deal specifically with Western Sahara: Mark Drury : Naming the City: Saharan Urbanization and Disaggregated Sovereignty https://www.cairn.info/revue-l-ouest-saharien-2022-2-page-39.htm Andrea Bastide : Enjeux...
New parution – Conflict and Peace in Western Sahara. The Role of the UN’s Peacekeeping Mission (MINURSO). János Besenyó, Joseph Huddleston, Yahia Zoubir
János Besenyó, R. Joseph Huddleston, Yahia H. Zoubir (ed.), 2022, Conflict and Peace in Western Sahara. The Role of the UN's Peacekeeping Mission (MINURSO), London, Routledge, 354 p. Abstract: This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of MINURSO (the...
New parution – Les enfants des nuages. Une ethnologue dans la tourment saharienne, Sophie Caratini
Sophie Caratini, 2022. Les enfants des nuages. Une ethnologue dans la tourmente saharienne, Éditions Thierry Marchaisse, 562 p. Abstract: This is the story of an inexperienced young girl who sets off into the Mauritanian desert in search of the great nomadic Rgaybat,...
New publicación – Rebelarse en el desierto. Movilizaciones políticas en el oeste sahariano (1932-2020), Francesco Correale, Laura Feliu, Alberto López Bargados
Francesco Correale, Laura Feliu, Alberto López Bargados (ed.), 2022. Rebelarse en el desierto. Movilizaciones políticas en el oeste sahariano (1932-2020), Barcelona, Alborán Bellaterra, 634 p. Abstract: The Western Sahara is an indisputable historical and cultural...
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Women in the Sahara and the Sahel – L’Ouest saharien journal, issue 16
Notice of publication C. Evrard & E. Pettigrew, 2022, Femmes du Sahara-Sahel: Transformation sociales et conditions de vie, Cahiers L'Ouest saharien, n°16, 232 p. There are few works on women in the humanities and social sciences literature on the Saharo-Sahelian...
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New publication “Around Western Sahara: ongoing research, testimonies and novels”. L’Ouest saharien, issue 12
"Autour du Sahara Occidental : recherches en cours, témoignages et nouvelles" in Cahiers L'Ouest saharien, n°12, 2020, 278 p. This issue of L'Ouest saharien is published in the context of the resumption of the war in Western Sahara, which raises great uncertainties...
Filmographie de OUISO
OUISO's filmography offers a list of films on Western Sahara authored by the Observatory's researchers.
The Institute of Research for Development (IRD) violates International Law in Western Sahara
Academic Council Communiqué “The Institute of Research for Development (IRD) violates International Law in North Africa (Western Sahara)” One year ago (June 2020), our Observatory discovered that academic partnerships were underway between Moroccan institutions and...
Appel à communication pour le Forum Insaniyyat Tunis 2022
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Appel à communication pour le Forum Insaniyyat انسانيّات Tunis 2022 - Date limite: le 15 novembre 2021 Présentation générale du Forum Insaniyyat Insaniyyat انسانيّاتest un Forum international des sciences humaines et sociales visant...
On the cancellation of EU-Morocco trade agreements: Orient XXI, A. Quéré
Antoine Quéré, "Pêche. La justice européenne à contre-courant sur le Sahara occidental", Orient XXI, 4 octobre 2021 https://orientxxi.info/magazine/peche-la-justice-europeenne-a-contre-courant-sur-le-sahara-occidental,5081
Algeria-Morocco-EU: a geopolitics in crisis – Conference, Sorbonne, December 3
Algérie-Maroc-Union européenne : une géopolitique régionale en crise ? Amphithéâtre Emile Durkheim – Sorbonne Université de Paris (Faculté Sociétés & Humanités) Vendredi 3 décembre 2021 – 17h-19h Lieu de l'événement: Galerie Cl. Bernard, escalier I, 1er étage 14,...
France Culture : the right to self-determination in Western Sahara
Radio program "Cultures Monde" (France Culture) of December 7, 2021 hosted by Florian Delorme https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/cultures-monde/sahara-occidental-le-mirage-de-l-etat-nation Inscribed on the UN list of territories to be decolonized, in the eyes of...