TOMORROW, TOMORROW, INSHA ALLAH, how the journey back to my roots became an adventurous escape from the Sahara

223pp., illus., maps, paperback, Feral House, Port Townsend, (2021) 2023

ISBN: 9781627311397

An account of Sara Cheikh's attempt to get home to Europe from the Western Sahara by any means necessary as the borders close during the Covid-19 pandemic.

In 2020 she travelled from Paris to visit her grandmother and extended family, members of the Saharawi people who hac been displaced in refugee city-camps for the past 45 years. Defying government decrees, she risked starvation, arrest and kidnapping as she and a group of unlikely companions attempted to cross the border into Algeria.

Sara Cheikh is a product designer living in Barcelona. She was born in the Smara refugee camp in Tindouf, Algeria, where she lived until the age of six. Her father, a former political prisoner who worked as a translator for MINURSO, the UN mission in charge of the conflict between Western Sahara and Morocco, brought Sara and her siblings to Spain in 1998. Tomorrow, Tomorrow, lnsha Allah, her first book, includes information on the history, culture and struggle of the Sahrawi people.