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Ali Salem Iselmu Abderrahaman

Natural del Sahara Occidental, nacido en los años setenta en la región de Tiris, es licenciado en periodismo, escritor y poeta. Cuenta con varias publicaciones en poesía y prosa. Y es miembro fundador del grupo de escritores saharauis Generación de la Amistad. Conferenciante sobre la literatura e historia del proceso de liberación nacional saharaui en diferentes universidades y eventos internacionales, colaborador con varios periódicos y portales digitales que tratan el conflicto del Sahara Occidental y su historia. Reside actualmente en Vitoria, Gasteiz, País Vasco.

Palestine between nihilism and destruction

When I saw the images of smoke billowing from buildings after Israel’s heavy shelling and the destruction of some Kibbutz along the line separating Israel from the Gaza Strip, I knew from the start that both sides seek to destroy…

The plundering of Africa

Africa is back in the news and has become an area of high international tension. The memory of the Libyan war and the destruction of that country still lingers in the minds of its neighbours. The coup d’état in Niger…

The illegality of the EU-Morocco fisheries agreement

Now that the fisheries agreement between the European Union and Morocco has expired, there are no moral or legal arguments left to maintain any economic activity in Western Sahara. The status of a Non-Self-Governing Territory in the face of Moroccan…

The value of language

I have always believed in human values as a basic principle of respect and coexistence between the different cultures that inhabit this planet. If some peoples came from the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, others came from the Red Sea…

The historical memory of the Saharawis

I arrived in the year 2000 in the city of Madrid accompanying a group of Sahrawi children. We were hosted in Leganés by an association of friends of the Sahrawi people. I acted as interpreter and mediator with the host…

PSOE and French far right support Morocco in the European Parliament

The vote of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party in the European Parliament alongside the French extreme right is increasingly inexplicable from the point of view of human rights and ethics. A vote against freedom of information and expression in Morocco.…

The journey of solitude

STORY Sometimes I feel panic of loneliness, a deep fear that makes me feel every moment as a new challenge. It is in that pleasant fear that I find clarity and a deep reflection is born that takes me to…