Sahrawi or Saharawi (also transliterated into Spanish as or French as ), is an Arabic term meaning 'from the Sahara', or more specifically the

Western Sahara Western Sahara is a territorial dispute, disputed territory in Maghreb, North-western Africa. It has a surface area of . Approximately 30% of the territory () is controlled by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR); the remaining 70% is ...

. It can also mean 'from the desert' in general. Sahrawi may also refer to:

People

*the

Sahrawi people The Sahrawis, or Sahrawi people ( '), are an ethnic group native to the western part of the Sahara desert, which includes the Western Sahara, southern Morocco, much of Mauritania, and along the southwestern border of Algeria. They are of mixed ...

, a Hassaniya-speaking ethnic group in the Maghreb region of Africa **the

Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), also known as the Sahrawi Republic and Western Sahara, is a partially recognized state in the western Maghreb, which claims the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara, but controls only ...

, a partially recognized Sahrawi state ***holders of Sahrawi passports (see

Sahrawi nationality law Sahrawi nationality law (also romanized as Saharawi) is the law of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic's (SADR) governing nationality and citizenship. The SADR is a partially recognized state which claims sovereignty over the entire territory ...

) *** Women in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic **residents of

, the Tekna Zone or the

Sahrawi refugee camps The Sahrawi refugee camps (; ), also known as the Tindouf camps, are a collection of refugee camps set up in the Tindouf Province, Algeria, in 1975–76 for Sahrawi refugees fleeing from Moroccan forces, who advanced through Western Sahara dur ...

*persons from

the Sahara The Sahara (, ) is a desert spanning across North Africa. With an area of , it is the largest hot desert in the world and the list of deserts by area, third-largest desert overall, smaller only than the deserts of Antarctica and the northern Ar ...

desert

Surname

Abdelbaki Sahraoui Abdelbaki Sahraoui () (August 25 1910 - July 11 1995) was a co-founder of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) in Algeria. Biography Sahraoui was born in 1910 in Constantine, Algeria. In 1926, he joined the circle of Sheikh Mubarak el-Mili. Five ye ...

(1910–1995), Algerian imam *

Cheb Sahraoui Cheb Sahraoui (born Mohamed Sahraoui, Oran, Algeria, 1 April 1961) is an Algerian raï musician, the first raï singer to tour North America and the first to incorporate electronic synthesizers into his arrangements. Early life As a pianist, he ...

(born 1961), Algerian musician and rai singer *

Djamila Sahraoui Djamila Sahraoui (born 1950) is an Algerian filmmaker. Djamila Sahraoui was born in Algiers Algiers is the capital city of Algeria as well as the capital of the Algiers Province; it extends over many Communes of Algeria, communes without ha ...

(born 1950), Algerian filmmaker *

Nabil Sahraoui Nabil Sahraoui (26 September 1969 – 20 June 2004), alias Mustapha Abou Ibrahim, was an Algerian Islamist militant, and the head of the radical ''Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat'' (GSPC, later renamed Al-Qaeda Organization ...

(1969–2004), Algerian militant *

Marouane Sahraoui Marouane Sahraoui (; born 9 January 1996) is a professional football player who plays for Ismaily SC. Club career He made his professional debut in the Belgian First Division B for RFC Seraing on 26 September 2015 in a game against Dessel. In ...

(born 1996), French-born Tunisian football player *

Mohammed Sahraoui Mohammed Sahraoui (born 23 February 1978) is a Tunisian boxer. He competed in the men's middleweight event at the 2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as ...

(born 1978), Tunisian boxer *

Mourad Sahraoui Mourad Sahraoui () (born January 12, 1983) is an amateur boxer from Tunisia best known for winning Gold in the heavyweight division at the 2007 All-African Games. Career Sahraoui failed to qualify for the 2004 Athens Games by ending up in third ...

(born 1983), Tunisian boxer *

Osame Sahraoui Osame Sahraoui (; born 11 June 2001) is a professional footballer who plays as a left winger for club Lille. Born in Norway, he plays for the Morocco national team. Club career Vålerenga Growing up in Hauketo IF, Sahraoui joined Vålerenga ...

(born 2001), Norwegian football player {{disambiguation, surname Arabic-language surnames Language and nationality disambiguation pages