Domination and resistance

In the Western media, the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 2797(2025) on 31 October 2025 was only a side note. But the background to the conflict is important, if only on a linguistic level. Maja Zwick examines how Spanish in Western Sahara evolved from the language of the occupiers to a tool of anti-colonial struggle – shaped by Cuban solidarity, the ‘Cubarawis’, Hassaniya and ‘Hassañol’. Between occupied territories, refugee camps in Algeria and migration to Spain, language becomes a stage for power, memory and belonging…
(Available in Arabic, English, French, German & Spanish)
https://literatur.review/en/essay/domination-and-resistance

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