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This impassioned documentary takes an unabashed stand on one of the world’s most urgent and ignored states of oppression: the domination of the Sahrawi people by Morocco, who in 1975 annexed the Western Sahara, forcing thousands of people to flee to refugee camps in neighbouring Algeria. Post-Cold War politics come into stark relief as Spanish director Álvaro Longoria explores the alignment of the West with Morocco, while Algeria and Libya arm the Sahrawis’ resistance movement. Starring actor…See More

The event, hosted at SOAS Junior Common Room,  aims to remember Gdeim Izik, the largest non-violent demonstration in Western  Sahara, under Moroccan occupation, two years ago. The UK premiere of the  documentary ‘La-Badil: No Other Choice’, by Dominic Brown, will provide the  audience with an insight vision of the brutaly dismantled camp oFILMf Gdeim Izik by  Moroccan forces as well as a background to the Western Sahara conflict. The screening will be followed by a talk and discussion with…See More