On the Banks of the Karakoro offers readers intimate details of life in Mauritania, a little-known West African country saddled by the Sahara and underdevelopment. Heartbreaking, visceral, honest, and hopeful, the account of my experience as an English teacher with the Peace Cor…
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The purpose of this study was to develop a model that can allocate water between users of different areas in a large-scale irrigation project. The objective function of such a model consists of maximizing the net benefit of the project, subject to a number of constraints dependi…
This study investigates the practice of slavery in Mauritania. As a practice that is still strongly racially-based, slavery in Mauritania is an anachronism in a time where racial and hereditary bondage have died out in almost every country in the world. The victims are often tho…
This piece is a memoir detailing my experience as an ethnic, cultural, racial, and religious minority in my husband's biological home, Nouakchott, Mauritania. The main story takes place over a three week period during which my family and I travel to Nouakchott to visit. My narra…
This dissertation posits that the relationship between processes of regime change and cultural pluralism are mutually informing. It explains why it is possible that, despite the recurrence of ethnic tensions in a multicultural state like the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, a cou…
The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze conflictual and cooperative inter-state relations in North Africa. It investigates the domestic, regional and international causes of conflict between Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia (and the Western Sahara). It looks a…
This dissertation is an historical look at the politics of language of the Pulaar in Mauritania, West Africa. An overview of the linguistic characteristics of Pulaar and the cultural geography of the Pulaar is provided. Historically, the Pulaar have had to face racist attacks of…
Les decennies '70-80 en Mauritanie sont celles du developpement rural a la base selon la formule de micro-projets. Indissociable des bouvelversements qui ont marque la societe rurale au cours de ces trois decennies, cette approche s'est distinguee dans l'extension de la culture …