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

, the Tekna Zone or the Sahrawi refugee camps *persons from the Sahara desert

Surname

* Abdelbaki Sahraoui (1910–1995), Algerian imam * Cheb Sahraoui (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 (1969–2004), Algerian militant * Marouane Sahraoui (born 1996), French-born Tunisian football player * Mohammed Sahraoui (born 1978), Tunisian boxer * Mourad Sahraoui (born 1983), Tunisian boxer * Osame Sahraoui (born 2001), Norwegian football player {{disambiguation, surname Arabic-language surnames Language and nationality disambiguation pages