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International conference, University of Picardy Jules Verne (Amiens), 27-28 May 2019 : Western Sahara – News on an old issue.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="4032" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]International and multidisciplinary symposium: Western Sahara - Topicality of an old question. Date: Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 May 2019 Address: Logis du Roy, Square Jules Bocquet,...
New publication: Silenced Resistance: Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea – Joanna Allan
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="4044" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]Reference: Johanna Allan, 2019, Silenced Resistance - Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea, University of Wisconsin Press, 360 pp Spain’s...
Post-Doctoral Contract Offers: CAPSAHARA Project (ERC-StG-716467)
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="4085" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]CAPSAHARA project: Critical Approaches to Politics, Social Activism and Islamic Militancy the Western Saharan Region (European Research Council STG-716467-2016) This project proposes...
New publication: Sahara Occidental, una cuestión pendiente – Mohamed Salem Abdi
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="4175" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]Reference: Mohamed Salem Abdi, 2018, Sahara Occidental: una cuestión pendiente – el conflicto del Sahara Occidental trae graves consecuencias para la region y alarga el drama del...
Conference – ECAS2019. Africa: Connections and Disruptions Edinburgh, June 11-14 2019
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="4218" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]ECAS annual Conference: 12 & 13, june 2019 in Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh’s Centre of African Studies is hosting the 8th European Conference on African Studies, Europe’s...
New publication : Sahara Occidental, conflit oublié, populations en mouvement – Sébastien Boulay and Francesco Correale
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3648" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]The conflict of Western Sahara remains little known and too rarely documented, in France in particular. However, this territorial "dispute" dating back to the 1960s and 1970s is...
Call for papers – L’Ouest saharien journal
The journal L’Ouest Saharien is an international multidisciplinary journal offering rigorous analyzes of social, political, cultural and economic dynamics, crossing an area from the Moroccan and Algerian south to the Senegal and Niger rivers, including Western Sahara,...
Call for papers – How is research on the Western Sahara becoming regenerated ?
Beyond the Poetics of a Dead End: How is research on the Western Sahara becoming regenerated? Coordination du numéro: Enrique Bengochea Tirado (CRIA/Université Nova de Lisbonne) & Vivian Solana Moreno (King’s College at Western University, Canada) For more than...
International symposium : WATER in West Saharan region – 2,3,4 may – Nouakchott
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3306"][vc_column_text]International symposium-Tribute to Pierre Bonte: "Water in Mauritania and the West Saharan region : Representations, uses and governance of a shared resource" Organizing Committee: Ahmed Maouloud Eida...
New publication: The Western Sahara – 15 basic statements on the conflict
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In this book the reader will not see a personal opinion of the authors on the question of Western Sahara, within the framework of International Law, but will see a work where the authors have searched, selected and ordered the...
Conference – Analysis of the Moroccan Foreign Policy, Paris, June 4th, 6pm
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3253"][vc_column_text] CEPED and OUISO organize: Conference: Tribulation of a "territorial champion" and a "model pupil" of the European Union: Moroccan foreign policy with the prism of role theory Speaker: Irene...
On the Web: A Saharawi student leader expelled from Spain and imprisoned in Morocco.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Saturday January 26th, 2019 by porunsaharalibre Lahoucine Amaadour (Saharawi name Husein Bachir Brahim) will be presented to the judge of instruction in Marrakesh on 29 January. The young man was deported on 17 January from the...
Prize Jaime Brunet 2018 : “The processes of truth, justice and reparation for the victims of enforced disappearances in the Western Sahara conflict” – Maria Lopez Belloso
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3321"][vc_column_text]María López Belloso, research advisor at the University of Deusto and member of OUISO observatory, has been distinguished with the second Jaime Brunet Doctoral Thesis Prize for her work "The processes of...
New publication : Bibliographic and documentary summary of Western Sahara, Ifni and southern Morocco
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3856"][vc_column_text]Reference: Pablo Ignacio de Dalmases and Olabarría (2019), Spanish West Africa in books - bibliographic and documentary sum of Western Sahara, Ifni and southern Morocco, Seville: Athenaica. Prologue by...
In the Media : Hunger strike of Claude Mangin-Asfari
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3331"][vc_column_text]Article from the newspaper l'Humanité: https://www.humanite.fr/sahara-occidental-claude-mangin-asfari-la-francaise-qui-defie-le-roi-du-maroc-654911 Since April 18, 2018, the French Claude Mangin-Asfari...
In the press: ”L’ONU presse pour un compromis dans les six prochains mois” (Le Monde)
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3368"][vc_column_text]The Minurso has been renewed for only six months in order to put maximum pressure on Morocco and the Polisario Front. Le Monde // 28.04.2018 To know more...
New article : Diplomatic Practices of Contested States, Bouris & Fernández-Molina
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3428"][vc_column_text]Bouris D. & Fernández-Molina I., "Contested States, Hybrid Diplomatic Practices, and the Everyday Quest for Recognition", International Political Sociology, vol.1, N°19, 2018 This article examines...
New publication : Algeria and the Sahelian Quandary: The Limits of Containment Security Policy – Yahia Zoubir
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3458"][vc_column_text]ZOUBIR Yahia, Algeria and the Sahelian Quandary : The limits of containment security policy, The Sahel: Europe's african borders, European Institute of the Mediterranean, p.70-95, 2018 Publication...
OUISO at the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies in Sevilla, July 16-21 2018
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3504"][vc_column_text]Interventions on Western Sahara during the week of the WOCMES in Sevilla : listes contributions WOCMES sur Western Sahara[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
New parution : FRIDOLIN ZEHNDER l’AFRICAIN
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3519"][vc_column_text]Martinoli E., 2018, Fridolin Zehnde l'Africain, Les aventures d'un légionnaire suisse, déserteur et combattant au Maroc (1920-1934), Editions Alphil, Presses universitaires suisses « Je suis né le 28...