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Fortieth International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (ARABIC)

Published at 49 12,,, 17 2017

2017.29.11. Casa Árabe and the Diplomatic Mission of Palestine in Spain organized this conference, given by Ayman Odeh, a member of the Knesset and the head of the Joint List. It was presented by Mussa Amer Odeh, the Ambassador of Palestine in Spain, and Pedro Martínez-Avial, the General Director of Casa Árabe. Since 1977, on November 29 of each year, the UN commemorates the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. The date was selected because of its importance to the Palestinian people, given that three decades earlier, or in other words on that same date in 1947, the United Nations General Assembly enacted Resolution 181, which later came to be known as the “Partition Resolution,” in which the creation of a “Jewish State” and an “Arab State” in Palestine were stipulated, with Jerusalem as an international city. Of the two States foreseen in that resolution, up to now only one has been created: Israel. In a year when the Balfour Declaration has turned one century old, the Nakba occurred seven decades ago, and the Six-Day War took place fifty years back, this anniversary is allowing the international community to focus its attention on the fact that the matter of Palestine has not yet been resolved. Ayman Odeh (Haifa, 1975) is an attorney and politician, as well as member of the Israeli Parliament, or Knesset and the head of the Joint List, a political alliance of four parties dominated by the Arabs: Hadash, Balad, the United Arab List and Ta’al. Odeh, who identifies as a Socialist, joined Hadash and represented it in the Municipal Government of Haifa from 1998 to 2005, before becoming the party’s Secretary General in 2006. Analysts attribute to charismatic Odeh the fact that a more moderate, pragmatic face has been placed on the Arab political union. Odeh was elected to the twentieth Knesset, along with another 12 candidates from the Joint List. More info: http://en.casaarabe.es/event/fortieth-international-day-of-solidarity-with-the-palestinian-people

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(3) Education, unemployment and development: challenges and opportunities

International Forum "A decade of transformations in the Arab world". 04/24/2017: Arab citizens and their development. "Education, unemployment and development: challenges and opportunities", by Khalid Abu-Ismail, ESCWA and a presentation by Gouda Abdel-Khalek, El Cairo University read by Olivia Orozco, Casa Árbe. Moderated by: Emma Hooper, CIDOB. More info: http://en.casaarabe.es/event/a-decade-of-transformations-in-the-arab-world

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(2) Constitutions undergoing mutation: Between legality and legitimacy (ARABIC)

International Forum "A decade of transformations in the Arab world" 04/24/2017: Crisis in the Arab State "Constitutions undergoing mutation: Between legality and legitimacy". Salwa Hamrouni, University of Tunis and Gianluca Parolin, The Aga Khan University. Moderated by Hana Jalloul, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. More info: http://en.casaarabe.es/event/a-decade-of-transformations-in-the-arab-world

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(1) Authoritarianism and reconciliation in the MENA region

International Forum "A decade of transformations in the Arab world". 04/24/2017: Crisis in the Arab State "Authoritarianism and reconciliation in the MENA region". Ibrahim Fraihat, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and Madawi al Rasheed, London School of Economics. Moderated by: Barah Mikaïl, Saint-Louis University. More info: http://en.casaarabe.es/event/a-decade-of-transformations-in-the-arab-world

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(5) Arab women after a decade of transformations

Casa Árabe organized this public conference as part of the International Forum on “A decade of transformations in the Arab world.” With Madawi al-Rasheed, Fatemah Farag and Hibaaq Osman. Over the last decade, we have witnessed a series of transformations in the Arab world, taking place in societies which asked for democracy while clamoring for freedom and dignity. However, Arab women continue to fall victim to discrimination, violence and the violation of their rights. There is evidence of this in the annual reports by the most important world organizations published since the 1980’s, with indicators ranking the Arab countries at the bottom in terms of gender development, measures for the empowerment and gender equality, furthering women’s role in science, women’s activity in the economy and labor market, and women’s participation in political life, as well as other indicators. This conference, which formed part of the international forum “A decade of transformation in the Arab world,” included the participation of three experts who discussed the many challenges ahead to be faced by Arab women, from different perspectives: Madawi al-Rasheed, a visiting professor at the London School of Economics (LSE) Middle East Centre; Fatemah Farag, a journalist and the founder and director of Welad Elbalad Media Services LTD, and Hibaaq Osman, the founder of al-Karama and a member of several organizations which specialize in gender-based and feminist studies. More info: http://en.casaarabe.es/event/arab-women-after-a-decade-of-transformations

Published at 18 29,,, 17 2017
How are “millennials” changing the Mediterranean?

Arabisms: Festival of young creators: Conference given (05/18/2017) by Juan Cole, a professor of History at the University of Michigan, and Nesreen El Hachlaf, a lawyer and journalist in Spain. The event was moderated by Alfonso Carlos Bolado, director of the Contemporary Islam Library, Edicions Bellaterra. The youths who were born from 1982 through 2004, referred to as millennials, will become more than 70% of the developed world’s labor force in 2025. Not all groups of adolescents and youths in their twenties create historical movements focusing on their identity as young people, but it appears as though Arab millennials have. Six years ago, an urban youth movement broke onto the scene, given momentum by social and economic malaise, for the discovery of new life experiences, in confrontation with a series of regimes whose only interest lay in perpetuating their own power. But how did they do this? Juan Cole took a look at the cases of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. At the time, people spoke of a contagious effect spreading out from Tahrir Square to Spain’s May 15th movement. Can the Arab experience be compared with that of youths in Spain? Nessrin el Hachlaf delved further into the matter, examining the case of the migrant population residing in Spain and their descendants. More info: http://en.casaarabe.es/event/arabisms-festival-of-young-creators

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