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Mariem Hassan
Sahrawi singer
Musical artist
Mariem Hassan (Arabic: مريم الحسان; May – 22 August ) was a Sahrawi singer and lyricist. She usually sang in Hassaniya, an Arabic variant spoken mostly in Western Sahara and Mauritania, occasionally singing in Saharan Spanish.
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Life
Mariem Hassan was born in May in Uad Tazua, 20&#;km. away from Smara, Spanish Sahara.[1] She was the third of ten siblings in a nomadic family. Music and poetry was important in the family and various relatives were singers, poets or dancers.
In , following the Green March and the Madrid Accords which ceded the territory to Morocco and Mauritania, she went with her family, first to Meharrize and finally to the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria, where she worked as nurse.
Three of her brothers were killed during the Western Sahara War.
She lived there until , when for work and health reasons she moved to Spain, first to Barcelona and then to Sabadell, where she lived w