| Hadjatu Aliat Swelm | |
| Native Name: | حجاتو عليات سويلم |
| Native Name Lang: | ar |
| Birth Date: | 1973 |
| Birth Place: | Sagir Valley, Western Sahara |
| Occupation: | Poet |
Hadjatu Aliat Swelm (; born 1973) is a Sahrawi poet, whose work examines the role of women in Sahrawi culture.
Swelm was born in the Sagir Valley, Western Sahara.[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. After a rising number of police raids on her home and family, she moved to Aosserd camp, in order to protect her family from Moroccan authorities.[5] Her poetry focuses on the role of women within the Sahrawi struggle. 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.