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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...
Two papers on ethical issues regarding research in Western Sahara, Joanna Allan & Sébastien Boulay
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3571"][vc_column_text]Joanna ALLAN, 2017, "Activist Ethics: the Need for a Nuanced Approach to Resistance Studies Field Research", in Journal of Resistance Studies, Volume 3, Number 2 : 89-121 PDF : Allan_draft_version...
New publication : Nomads and nation-building in the Western Sahara : gender, politics and the Sahrawi – Konstantina Isidoros
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3612"][vc_column_text]ISIDOROS, Konstantina, Nomads and Nation Building in the Western Sahara: Gender, Politics and the Sahrawi, I.B.Tauris, London, 2018 Fabled for more than three thousand years as fierce warrior-nomads and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
International Workshop “Human rights in Western Sahara”, Sorbonne, October 20th 2017
International Workshop : "Human Rights protection in Western Sahara : instruments, actors, collaborations" Organizers : International Academic Observatory on Western Sahara (OUISO), CEPED, Association Américaine de Juristes (AAJ), ACAT Free registration but...
Call for papers – Workshop – Université Paris 8 – June 2018
Call for papers – Workshop June 2018 : Margins, Marginality, Marginalization and Contestation in Middle East and North Africa
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="2807"][vc_column_text]The workshop “Margins, Marginalities, Marginalization and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)”, which is proposed here, will examine the margins and forms of marginalities, spatial,...
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 thanks...
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 Vernet....
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, 5-7...
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 power...