HAIYU: Rebel Singer Mariem Hassan and the Struggle for a Free Western Sahara(2024)
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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