Nadhira Mohamed

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Nadhira Mohamed (born 1989) is a Spain-based Sahrawi activist and actress. She has been described by some academics as the first Sahrawi actress. [1] [2]

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Early life

Nadhira Mohamed, also known as Nadhira Luchaa Mohamed-Lamin or Nadhira Mohamed Buhoy, was born in a refugee camp in Tindouf, Algeria, in 1989. [3] [4] [5] [6]

Her father was the Polisario Front co-founder Luchaa Mohamed Lamin, and her native language is Hassaniya Arabic. [4] [5] [7]

Career

Mohamed is an actress and activist based in Valencia, Spain, having moved to the country in 2002. [4] [8] [9] [10]

Her first major acting role was in the 2011 film Wilaya , also known as Tears of Sand. The film took place in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, where Mohamed herself once lived. [8] [6] [9]

She was discovered and chosen to appear in the film when the filmmaker came across a photograph of her participating in a protest led by the Sahrawi activist Aminetu Haidar. [7] [11]

Mohamed won the Best Actress award at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival in 2011 for her performance of the lead role of Fatimetu in Wilaya. [1] [2] [12] The Moroccan delegation left the room in protest when she was announced as the winner, due to the ongoing Western Sahara conflict. [13]

Mohamed was also a candidate for the Goya Award for Best New Actress in 2013, though she was not nominated. [14]

Mohamed later appeared in the 2015 documentary Life is Waiting: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara. [1] [8]

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