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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...
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 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...
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...
Les camps de réfugiés sahraouis : une histoire de résilience ?
Documentary film, retracing the history of the Sahrawi refugee camps and the floods that hit them in October 2015. Film directed by Francesco CORREALE and Jean Philippe CORBELLINI with the support of the Val de Loire Human Sciences House (USR 3501), the CITERES...
New publication : Les récits d’origine, Pierre Bonte
Last publication of our late colleague, Pierre Bonte Bonte Pierre, 2016, Les récits d’origine. Contribution à la connaissance du passé ouest-saharien (Mauritanie, Maroc, Sahara Occidental, Algérie et Mali), Paris, Karthala En s’inspirant de l’analyse structurale des...
2nd GIS Congress “Moyen-Orient et Mondes Musulmans”
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="1898"][vc_column_text] The objectives of the Congress : Encourage young researchers, doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows To make known the research centers and associations (Diwan, Halqa, Samah, AGIS) working on the...