Sahrawi Music isn’t easy on Western ears. The microtonality of the melodies is unfamiliar, the rhythms are complicated and repetitive, the instrumentation is harsh, and the wailing vocal lines are ...

Originally and anonymously first appearing on the 2012 compilation Music from Saharan Cellphones Vol. 2, El Wali now gets a name and proper reissue of its 1994 album Tiris. This is Sahrawi folk ...

It can be hard to tell: Moroccan authorities crack down on displays of Sahrawi nationalism. Even speaking the Sahrawi Hassaniya dialect can get you in trouble. So, for pro-independence residents ...