Conference: Uncomfortable Past: The Sahara Question in Historical Perspective, by Santiago Jiménez and Souadou Mohamed Fadel

On Monday, 23 February at 11:30 a.m., Santiago Jiménez, retired professor at the USC, and activist Souadou Mohamed Fadel will give a talk entitled ‘The Sahara Question in Historical Perspective’ in Room 13 of the Faculty of History. The event is open to the general public.

The Western Sahara issue is an unresolved territorial and decolonisation conflict that has been ongoing for almost 50 years, mainly between Morocco and the Polisario Front, and whose sovereignty remains undefined under international law. It is considered the last colony in Africa and the UN considers it a ‘non-self-governing territory’.

Santiago Jiménez is a retired professor of history at the Faculty of Geography and History (USC) and a member of OUISO, the Galician Observatory for the Sahara, and the Al-Dabarán Collective.

Souadou Mohamed Fadel was born in a refugee camp in El Aaiún, in the Sahara desert, and experienced what it is like to belong to a nation without a state — the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, which has not yet been recognised by the UN. She lives in Lugo, where she arrived with her family.