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xii • EDITOR’S FOREWORD Dictionary of Mauritania. Although technically a third edition, this current Historical Dictionary of Western Sahara is an entirely new book because it was written from scratch by Mr. Pazzanita alone. After more than two decades, it was necessary to do more than just revise and update. The final product is both informative and absorbing. Jon Woronoff
Preface As was the case in the second edition of this dictionary, the time period leading to my authorship of this completely rewritten new edition has been highly eventful with respect to the attempts by the international community to resolve the Western Sahara dispute. Only an outcome universally perceived as evenhanded and just would both foreclose the possibility of renewed war and fully satisfy an African continent sensitized (by virtue of its own experiences if nothing else) to issues of decolonization and self-determination. In spite of the fact that this is an entirely new presentation, I still feel (and readers of this volume should also feel) a considerable intellectual debt to Tony Hodges, who almost alone among English-speakers pioneered the study of Western Sahara’s history during his exhaustive researches beginning in the late 1970s. It is my hope, therefore, that this edition will be judged to have been faithful to the firm foundation that Tony Hodges constructed over two decades ago, although neither he nor anyone else besides myself should be held responsible for any errors of fact or omission contained in these pages. As far as specifics are concerned, the user will find several important differences in this book as opposed to the two earlier editions. Aside from the customary deletions from the main body of the dictionary made necessary by the passage of time and by the emergence of new issues and personages (and not all the omissions here are from the colonial or precolonial period), most existing entries have been thoroughly updated with new information, and there are nearly three dozen entirely new entries covering a wide sweep of the history and politics of Western Sahara. The decade plus since the publication of the second edition has also brought the emergence of scores of new source materials devoted in one way or another to Western Sahara and the dispute surrounding it. As a result, I have totally reorganized the bibliography, xiii
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