sahrawi

🇪🇭 Continuano le tensioni attorno alla questione Sahara Occidentale e alla richiesta di autodeterminazione del popolo sahrawi: al Congresso del Fronte Polisario che si è appena concluso è stata ribadita la volontà di proseguire la lotta armata contro il Marocco che occupa il territorio e che dal 2020 ha anche riaperto per questo motivo le ostilità con l'Algeria.
Intanto proprio l'Algeria ha vietato alla nazionale marocchina un volo diretto per andare a disputare la CHAN 2022, la Coppa d'Africa riservata ai giocatori africani che non giocano all'estero.

Piotr Schulkes, Helna Murphy, Hajar Meddah, and Felix Walker discuss the recent development in the Western Sahara, caused by America’s recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the territory. They give an overview over the area’s history, the foreign actors involved, and what the future might hold

Ci spostiamo a sud del Mediterraneo, in quello che è uno dei più grandi territori non autonomi al mondo, un territorio conteso da due forze: da un lato il governo del Marocco e dall’altra il Frente Polisario. Stiamo parlando del Sahara Occidentale e lo facciamo con il giornalista Luca Attanasio, esperto dell'area.

Seminar given on 22 October 2014 by Dr Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (University College London and the Refugee Studies Centre), part of the RSC Michaelmas term 2014 Public Seminar Series. Refugee camps are typically perceived as militarised and patriarchal spaces, and yet the Sahrawi refugee camps and their inhabitants have consistently been represented as ideal in nature: uniquely secular and democratic spaces, and characterised by gender equality. Drawing on extensive research with and about Sahrawi refugees in Algeria, Cuba, Spain, South Africa and Syria, Dr Fiddian-Qasmiyeh explores how, why and to what effect such idealised depictions have been projected onto the international arena. In this talk, she argues that secularism and the empowerment of Sahrawi refugee women have been strategically invoked to secure the humanitarian and political support of Western state and non-state actors who ensure the continued survival of the camps and their inhabitants. She challenges listeners to reflect critically on who benefits from assertions of good, bad and ideal refugees, and whose interests are advanced by interwoven discourses about the empowerment of women and secularism in contexts of war and peace. Read more about the book here: http://syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-2013/ideal-refugees.html Read more about the book here: syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-2013…gees.html

Dr Dawn Chatty, University of Oxford. The Sahrawis. Dr Dawn Chatty, Deputy Director of the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford talks about The Sahrawis.

This podcast was recorded between September 2002 and October 2007 in Algeria, Switzerland and the UK. This podcast was recorded between September 2002 and October 2007 in Algeria, Switzerland and the UK. The podcast includes comments from Philip Luther (Amnesty International), Christian Viret (BIRDHSO), and Sidi Omar (Polisario representative to the UK and Ireland) as well as former Sahrawi disappeared Daoud El Khadir and other Sahrawis with family members still missing.