Comments on: Western Sahara: Introducing the Sahrawi Blogosphere

By: kahar boli zario

kahar boli zario — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:34:27 +0000

Sahara is Moroccan and will stay Moroccan forever.
Long live Morocco from Tanger to Laguira,and death for the terrorists Polizario polizabal.
For people who are crying about these terrorists why do not you give independent to Ireland,Scotland,Strait of Gibraltar,Bask, and canaria islands?

bolizario = terrorists

By: Ahmed Salem Amr Khaddad

Ahmed Salem Amr Khaddad — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:27:53 +0000

Hi Cathrin,

More to read on the Western Sahara culture :
http://www.sahara-culture.com

Made by the unionist sahraouis supporting the autonomy initiative to end this absurd cold war conflict.

Hope to see one day that sandblast take into account the efforts of the unionist sahraoui to promote the culture of the Western Sahara region.

Thanks

Ahmed Salem

By: Cathrin Lemoine

Cathrin Lemoine — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:26:45 +0000

Hello Jillian,

Could I be cheeky enough to add the Sandblast blog to this discussion?

Sandblast is an arts and human rights charity that aims to promote the cultural identity of the Sahrawi refugees through the arts. We highlight UK-based events, camp-based art projects, Sahrawi artists and musicians through our blog.

http://sandblast-arts.blogspot.com

Best,
Cathrin

By: Jillian York

Jillian York — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:20:53 +0000

Ahmed,

Did I say that? No, I did not. All I said is that I think covering the W. Sahara blogosphere is important; that’s why we started this initiative.

Jillian

By: Ahmed Salem Amr Khaddad

Ahmed Salem Amr Khaddad — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:34:51 +0000

Dear Jillian,

I am sorry to say that you will probably be naive if you think that people who are supporting separatism in Western Sahara are doing their (cultural) propaganda without thinking of the political aspects of the conflict. All is about politics and all is about VICTIMIZATION and MISINFORMATION to get the greatest support possible from international people.

The moroccan Internet community was absent from Internet to deal with this absurd cold war conflict. Since then, many stories and mirages became established facts on Internet.

Globalvoicesonline is the best weblink to let the readers get balanced views about Western Sahara issue.

There will be a version of the conflict from the separatists and their supporters and there also will be another one of the unionits and their supporters. Knowing that, there is a reality in the ground in the main cities of Western Sahara you can look at on :
http://www.sahara-villes.com

Many thanks to permit to everyone to express his opinion.

Regards

Ahmed Salem

By: Jillian York

Jillian York — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:05:00 +0000

Mohamed,

Thanks. I (we) will be covering as many blogs as possible, but I do want to reiterate that our goal isn’t to cover the political situation so much as the culture of Western Sahara and the thoughts of Sahrawis. Therefore, I will attempt to focus more on Sahrawis than foreigners. That said, thank you for those two links, which I will pay attention to.

By: alle

alle — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:59:58 +0000

Oh, thanks.

By: mohamed

mohamed — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:51:47 +0000

Thank you so much Jillian York for covering western sahara issues and Blogosphere it really benifit our cause internationally.When talking about the western sahara Blogosphere in English i think we have to mention some Sahrawi people right in self-determination supporters whom you do not mention and who made great jobs such as Sahara-Watch who represent himself as “an American observer of the Western Sahara conflict”
http://sahara-watch.blogspot.com/
And western sahara Echo which in Arabic and English:
http://www.sahara-panorama.blogspot.com/
Thank you for mentioning Mr. WILL as the top of the list.

By: Will

Will — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:07:29 +0000

Thanks for the link, Jillian. I’m glad you chose one that shows my beef isn’t with Moroccans, but with their government’s occupation. I can’t wait to go to Morocco!