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.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaResistance in Occupied Western Sahara: women defining a societyAlthough 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.