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Vivian Solana

Vivian Solana is assistant professor of anthropology at Carleton University, Ottawa.

An Invisible War in Western Sahara — Sahrawis participate in the sit-in blocking the road at the Guergarat crossing from Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara to Mauritania, through the UN buffer zone. October 2020. Photo by Liman Bachir.A map of Western Sahara by the United Nations with the berm marked in brown.

MER Article

An Invisible War in Western Sahara

War has broken out in Western Sahara and few have heard the news. At a crossroads between sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa, the Saharan desert has long been misconstrued in colonial discourses as a largely unpeopled geography deemed culturally marginal and largely assimilable to Maghrebi post-col

Vivian Solana • 11 min read