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. It can also mean 'from the desert' in general.
Sahrawi may also refer to:
People
*the
Sahrawi people, a Hassaniya-speaking ethnic group in the Maghreb region of Africa
**the
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, the state of the Sahrawi people
***holders of
Sahrawi passport
Sahrawi passports are passports issued to citizens of the Sahrawi Republic. They are issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or Interior, and launched by National Centre of Documents Production.
Sahrawi passport booklets are valid for travel ...
s (see
Sahrawi nationality law
Sahrawi nationality law (also romanized with Saharawi) is the law of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) governing nationality and citizenship. The SADR is a partially recognized state which claims sovereignty over the entire territory o ...
)
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Women in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Women in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic are women who were born in, who live in, or are from the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR, also Romanization of Arabic, romanized with Saharawi) in the region of the Western Sahara or the Sahrawi ...
**residents of
Western Sahara, the
Tekna Zone or the
Sahrawi refugee camps
*persons from
the Sahara desert
Surname
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Abdelbaki Sahraoui Abdelbaki Sahraoui ( ar, عبد الباقي صحرواي) was a co-founder of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) in Algeria.
He was born in 1910 in Constantine, Algeria. In 1926, he joined the circle of Sheikh Mubarak el-Mili. Five years later, ...
(1910–1995), Algerian imam
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Cheb Sahraoui (born 1961), Algerian musician and rai singer
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Djamila Sahraoui (born 1950), Algerian filmmaker
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Samira Sahraoui, Algerian actress
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Nabil Sahraoui (1969–2004), Algerian militant
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Youcef Sahraoui, director of cinematographic photography in Algeria
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Saâd Sahraoui (born 1985), Algerian professional football player
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Marouane Sahraoui (born 1996), French-born Tunisian football player
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Mohammed Sahraoui (born 1978), Tunisian boxer
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Mourad Sahraoui (born 1983), Tunisian boxer
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Osame Sahraoui, (born 2001), Norwegian football player
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