Mohamed El Baikam

Mohamed El Baikam is a spokesman for the associations of the fishing sector and agriculture in the Western Sahara and a member of Sahrawi civil society.

A film about homecoming shot on a stolen shore: how Nolan’s Odyssey normalises Morocco’s grip on Western Sahara
23 July 2026 by Mohamed El Baikam
By filming a story of exile and homecoming in Western Sahara, Christopher Nolan’s production turned an unresolved homeland into scenery — and exposed the need for ethical standards governing film locations.
Western Sahara and the EU’s moral stress test
25 November 2025 by Mohamed El Baikam
After dozens of meetings and exchanges, a very different reality has become impossible to ignore: EU decisions on Western Sahara are shaped more by the political preferences of certain member states than by the European Court of Justice’s binding rulings.
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