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New publication : Profit over peace in Western Sahara – HAGEN Erik, PFEIFER Mario, SMITH Jeffrey
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3625"][vc_column_text]HAGEN Erik, PFEIFER Mario, SMITH Jeffrey, Profit over peace in Western Sahara. How commercial interests undermine self-determination in the last colony in Africa, Sternberg Press, 2018 Profit over...
Sahara : Conflit ensablé ? – Le dessous des cartes
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3636"][vc_column_text]Pierre-Olivier François, Sahara : conflit ensablé ?, Le dessous des cartes, September 8, 2018 According to the UN, this is one of the last unresolved colonial conflicts. For fifty years, the desert...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
New parution : Études de linguistique ouest-saharienne – Catherine Taine-Cheikh
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="2814"][vc_column_text]This first volume of a series of four carries the subtitle Sociolinguistique de l'area hassanophone. It consists of twelve studies published between 1989 and 2013, which deal with aspects of the...
Moyent-Orient journal : a special folder on Western Sahara here online
The Moyen-Orient journal published in the 4th quarter of 2016, No. 32, a special folder on Western Sahara. This issue has 4 contributions, of which you will find the PDF below: WILSON_MO32- CORREALE_MO32 DEL-MORAL_MO32- BOULAY-BUQUET_MO32 We express our warmest...
Call for papers – Archeology – L’Ouest saharien journal
The multidisciplinary journal L'Ouest saharien is launching a call for papers on the theme: "Archeology of the North-West Sahara: prospective review of research and conservation of sites and collections". The coordination of this issue is entrusted to Robert...
Call for contributions – ASAI – Bologna, 5-7 September 2018
ASAI V Fifth Conference of the Association for African Studies in Italy (Associazione per gli Studi Africani in Italia) Plural Africa : Politics, knowledge and social dynamics in time and space Department of Political and Social Sciences – University of Bologna,...
New publication : Victims of Mines in Western Sahara
MARTIN BERISTAIN Carlos, SEPULVEDA APARICIO Gisela, ESCOBAR CASAS Edi, El fuego escondido: Las víctimas de minas en el Sáhara Occidental, Bilbao, Hegoa, 2017, 1vol; 271pp; 23cms, 978-84-16257-29-4, Español This investigation is based on testimonies of 154 Saharawi...
Conference Alice Wilson – Sovereignty in exile – Paris, 29 January 2018, 17h
Monday the 29th of January 2018, 17h-19h, Alice Wilson, Lecturer at the University of Sussex, will present in French her book "Sovereignty in exile: A Saharan Liberation Movement governs", published in 2016. Sovereignty in Exile explores sovereignty and state...
Conferencia Alice Wilson – Soberanía en el exilio
New book, Pierre Bonte : Identities and social & cultural change in West Sahara
BONTE Pierre, Identités et changement socioculturel dans l’Ouest saharien (Mauritanie, Sahara Occidental, Maroc), Paris, Karthala, 2017 This book deals with the evolution of the West Saharan region within the boundaries imposed on local populations by the Spanish...
urgent: 15 Saharawi students tried on appeal, trial postponed to March 13, 2018
The 15 students were arrested in the first months of 2016. They were all mistreated and tortured by the Moroccan police during their interrogations. Many have started hunger strikes in protest against this mistreatment and the lack of a real investigation to know...
video on the situation of Sahrawi refugees in Bordeaux
Film directed by Alice Rey and Manon Maunoir. Editing by Adrien Camus, translated by Marcelin Cabrera. In the framework of the Master 2 Pro "Health, Migration and Mediation" seminar of visual anthropology of the of the University of Bordeaux, in partnership with...