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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...
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...
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...
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 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...
Call for Papers : colloque CAPOLCOT II, Granada, 22-23 November 2018
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3546"][vc_column_text]Causes and consequences of mutation, progression or stagnation in processes of political change and territorial conflicts are main research objects for studies on comparative politics. These questions...
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 and...
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 the...
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 the...
EU-Morocco fisheries agreements qualified as invalid by EU Court of Justice
Cour de justice de l’Union européenne COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE n° 1/18 Luxembourg, le 10 janvier 2018 Conclusions de l’avocat général dans l’affaire C-266/16 The Queen et Western Sahara Campaign/Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs et Commissioners...
Journal “L’Ouest saharien” online via l’Harmattan
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. This journal is the...
New publication : Les rites de la tente – Limam Boicha
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3096"][vc_column_text]Originally from Western Sahara, the writer and poet Limam Boicha invites us to take a seat in the tent. Through thirty-one rites that embody, according to him, the culture and history of the desert...
Sovereignty in Exile A Saharan Liberation Movement Governs
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...
Film screening, “Leyuad”, sahrawi poetry, March 12, 18h, INALCO, Paris
On the occasion of the publication of the Rites de la tente (ed. Atelier du Tilde), of the Saharawi poet Limam Boicha, And as part of the "Spring of Poets" Festival 2018, AFRINALCO and OUISO organize: A film screening and debate around the movie "Leyuad, journey to...
« Le Maroc est en train de modifier sa stratégie sur le Sahara occidental »
Khadija Mohsen-Finan analyzes Rabat strategy changes after its reintegration into the African Union and the arrival of a new UN Secretary-General. Interview made by Charlotte Bozonnet LE MONDE 08.03.2017, 15h20...
Online Questionnaire on Water in Western Sahara – Until April 15th
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3187"][vc_column_text]Hello everyone, My name is Justine Launay, I am a student in Master 2 in Conflictuality and Mediation at the Université Catholique de l'Ouest in Angers (France). I write a master dissertation on water...