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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...
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...
New publication : “Sahara Occidental, 40 años después”
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="1913"][vc_column_text]Spain retired from Western Sahara in 1976 without having fulfilled the obligation to completely decolonize the territory. Forty years later, the question remains. Morocco continues to occupy the...
New publication : “The European Union Approach Towards Western Sahara”
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="1930"][vc_column_text]In the framework of the so-called Barcelona process, the European Union concluded several bilateral agreements with Morocco aimed to deepen their economic integration. The 2000 Association agreement...
New publication : Culture et politique dans l’Ouest Saharien
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="2562"][vc_column_text]The western Saharan region is often described as a "endemic" space of political instability: the secession of Northern Mali in 2012 and the overthrow of Amadou Toumani Touré, renewed tensions in Western...
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...
Global, Regional and Local Dimensions of Western Sahara’s Protracted Decolonization : When a Conflict Gets Old
New international publication, edited by our colleagues Raquel Ojeda Garcia, Irene Fernández-Molina, Victoria Veguilla: Global, Regional and Local Dimensions of Western Sahara’s Protracted Decolonization : When a Conflict Gets Old This book explores the traces of the...
Call for panels and papers WOCMES, Spain, july 2018
Fifth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES-5) Three Cultures Foundation of the Mediterranean, Seville, Spain, 16-20 July 2018 The World Congress seeks to address questions, exchange and explore information on the Middle East in the broadest sense. The...
Cahiers d’EMAM, “Sahara occidental: mémoires, culture, histoires”, Free access
Les Cahiers d'EMAM, 24-25, 2015 "Sahara occidental: mémoires, culture, histoires" "Sahara occidental: memorias, cultura, historias" Sous la direction de Francesco Correale et Juan Carlos Gimeno Martìn https://emam.revues.org/739 Le présent numéro des Cahiers d’EMAM...
The film “Legna : Habla el verso saharaui” online
The film, produced by "Anthropology in Action ONGD" was directed by Mahmud Awah Bahía, Juan Carlos Gimeno Martín and Juan Ignacio Robles Picón, the three anthropologists of the Autonomous University of Madrid, and was presented for the first time in public in 2014....
Conference of Yahya Ould Bara about West Saharan islam
CONFERENCE « LA GRANDE COLLECTION DES FATAWAS ET LA SITUATION RELIGIEUSE DANS L’OUEST SAHARIEN French Institute of Mauritania, Nouakchott - April 2017 http://institutfrancais-mauritanie.com/reecouter-nos-conferenciers/
XX meeting of the Fimam in Casa Arabe Madrid – 23 and 24 November 2017
The Forum of Research on the Arab and Muslim World (FIMAM) celebrates its twentieth meeting on 23 and 24 November 2017 in Casa Árabe, Madrid. With the purpose of commemorating this anniversary, which coincides, in turn, with the celebration of the ten years of the...