HAIYU: Rebel Singer Mariem Hassan and the Struggle for a Free Western Sahara (2024)
• June 14th, 2024 • 1h 30min
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HAIYU interweaves Mariem Hassan’s music and her personal quest for her country’s independence with larger historical events dating back to the region’s Spanish colonisation, and subsequent occupation by Morocco.
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