Tesh Sidi
Sahrawi-Spanish computer scientist and politician
Teslem Andala Ubbi (Arabic: تسلم عند الله أبي; born 30 May 1994), better known as Tesh Sidi (Arabic: تسلم سيدي), is a Sahrawi-Spanish computer engineer and politician. An activist for Sahrawi independence, she was elected as a member of the Congress of Deputies in the 2023 Spanish general election for Madrid. She was elected as number three on Sumar's list in Madrid after being nominated by Más Madrid, which whom she had previously attempted to run with for the 2023 regional election.
She is the first woman of Sahrawi origin to serve in the Congress of Deputies, as well as the first Sahrawi to serve in parliament following the Spanish Transition.
Early life and education
Tesh Sidi was born in the Sahrawi refugee camps located on Tindouf, Algeria on 30 May 1994. She was raised with her grandmother in Mauritania between the ages of four and seven following a Bedouin lifestyle, with her later returning to Tindouf. She moved to Alicante in the Valencian Community at the age of 12 to live with a foster family with whom she had already spent several summers, with her leaving her foster family at the age of 18 to work and study on her own.
She studied a degree in computer engineering at the University of Alicante in 2012 then, she moved to Madrid after grauduating, finding work during the computing boom. She obtained a loan to pursue a Master in Big Data and Artificial Intelligence at the European University of Madrid, which she later finished.
Early career
After the outbreak of the Western Saharan clashes in 2020 as part of the Western Sahara conflict, Tesh started to get more interested and aware about her origins and the Sahrawi cause and got involved in activism for the right to self-determination of the Sahrawi people, assuming the presidency of the Sahrawi Association in Madrid.
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