Stories of the Sahara
The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world and among the most sparsely populated, spanning 103,000 square miles of dunes and flatlands. How did a fiercely cosmopolitan Taiwanese woman end up living in one of the harshest territories on earth? What compelled her to move there? And once she got there, what happened?
Still Waiting for Tomorrow: The Law and Politics of Unresolved Refugee Crises
Long before the 1948 Arab-Israeli war when 750,000 people fled or were forced out of Mandate Palestine, the stage was set for Palestinians to become—and to remain—refugees. From the late 19thcentury the Zionist movement had conceived a plan for a Jewish return to the Holy Land.
Sovereignty in Exile
The heat of the day soft ened, and we began to stir from our midday slumbers. Thirsty for air, we emerged from the tent to resume the morning’s abandoned labors. It was nearly the end of my month-long sojourn with a family of camel herders in the pasturelands that my hosts called, in the accent of the Hassaniya dialect of Arabic, the badīah.
MINURSO: United Nations mission for the referendum in Western Sahara
This book is intended to be a part of a series of works that have been published about themes of warfare and conflicts under the auspices of Helion & Company Limited.
Global, Regional and Local Dimensions of Western Sahara’s Protracted Decolonization
The Western Sahara conflict is getting old. Having turned 40, which is quite an advanced age for a conflict, it is increasingly showing signs of ageing—wrinkles, changes of shape and fatigue—alongside its still apparent genetic inborn features.