Hadjatu Aliat Swelm (Arabic: حجاتو عليات سويلم; born 1973) is a Sahrawi poet, whose work examines the role of women in Sahrawi culture.
[1][2] She has written poetry throughout her life, mostly political work which was first and has subsequently been published under a pseudonym.
[3][4] In 1999, the publication of a poem she wrote about 66 political prisoners led to Moroccan authorities finding out her identity and a loss of her anonymity.
[1] Both she and the poet Hossein Moulud have written about life at the Gdeim Izik protest camp.
[6] Swelm's work was first translated to English by the writers Sam Berkson and Mohamed Sulaiman, in their volume of Sahrawi Poetry Settled Wanderers.