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• PoetryديوانIbn Razqa · 1731not translated into EnglishAt the beginning of the eighteenth century, a scholar of the Adrar writes learned poetry in classical Arabic, turned towards Morocco.Literature
• PoetryHassaniya Arabic (Mali): Poetic and Ethnographic Textsلغن الحسانيةAnonymous · 1850In the Moorish country, everyone, from warrior to shepherd, knows verses in Hassaniyya by heart, and many compose them.Literature
• Essayالوسيط في تراجم أدباء شنقيطAhmad ibn al-Amin al-Shinqiti · 1911not translated into EnglishA scholar of the Sahara, settled in Cairo, introduces the Arab East to the poetry and the land of Chinguetti.Literature
• CinemaSoleil ÔMed Hondo · 1970An actor from Mauritania films, at his own expense and over several years, the lives of African workers in Paris at the end of the sixties.Cinema
• TheatreLes Exilés de GoumelTène Youssouf Guèye · 1975not translated into EnglishA writer from Kaédi brings to the stage the history of the kingdoms of the Senegal river in their dealings with the traders of Saint-Louis.Literature
• CinemaSafrana or Freedom of SpeechSafrana ou le Droit à la paroleSidney Sokhona · 1978African immigrant workers learn farming from French peasants, in order to put it at the service of their country.Cinema
• NovelL'Amour impossibleMoussa Ould Ebnou · 1990not translated into EnglishA Mauritanian philosopher imagines, in French, a future society where love between a man and a woman has become a crime.Literature
• PoetryA Seller of WomenMarchand de femmesAminata Athié · 1992A poet from Nouakchott gives voice, in a few lines of verse, to the man who puts women up for sale.Literature
• CinemaLife on EarthLa Vie sur terreAbderrahmane Sissako · 1998For a television series on the turn of the year 2000, a Mauritanian filmmaker films his father's village in Mali.Cinema
• PoetryCherguiya, odes lyriques à une femme du SahelOusmane Moussa Diagana · 1999not translated into EnglishAt the end of the nineties, a linguist from Kaédi writes of love between the Arab-Berber and Black African communities of his country.Literature

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