Erica Vasquez

Erica Vasquez is a second year MA candidate in Arab Studies at Georgetown University. Her research interests include gender and military occupation, political resistance, conflict mitigation, and peacebuilding in the Middle East and North Africa.

Resistance in Occupied Western Sahara: women defining a society

Although men and women both actively participate in resistance projects, Sahrawi women facilitate most of the communication between non-violent activists from one city to another in this under-reported struggle.

By Erica Vasquez

/ 14 Dec 2014