Claudia Barona

She holds a PhD in Philosophy and Letters (Arabic Philology Section) from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, specializing in International Mediterranean Studies. She is currently a Professor and a Researcher at the Universidad de las Américas, Puebla in the Department of International Relations and Political Science. She is founder and coordinator, with Dr. Mohamed Badine El Yattioui, of the Permanent Seminar on Islam, ILM based at UDLAP. She is also an associate researcher at the Laboratoire, Societés Nomades et rencontres des cultures (Afrique du Nord et de l'Ouest) at the University of Tours, France and at the International Mediterranean Studies Workshop at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

She is part of research groups within different institutions such as; Research Group F-079 "Postcolonial Studies; Western Sahara-EPSO"; at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain and the CLACSO Latin America Middle East group. She has several publications and documentaries on the Sahara and the Arab World. Her lines of research include the history of North Africa (Maghreb); national identity; history and oral tradition and civil organizations. She has participated in several national and international conferences where her main topic has been the Western Sahara and the movements in Western Sahara and the Sahel.

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