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Seven decades of Nakba

Published at 29 18,,, 17 2017

05-16-2017: Casa Árabe is screening the documentary “The Earth Speaks Arabic” and has organized a conference by Palestinian historian Nur Masalha to commemorate this date. The event will be moderated by Teresa Aranguren, a journalist and member of the Board of Directors at RTVE. Why doesn’t the destruction of a large number of Palestinian towns and villages appear in the Western story about the consequences of Palestine’s partition? Commemorating the Nakba, or “catastrophe,” of 1947-48 means making an effort to recover a collective memory and the formation of a group identity, in which Palestine’s oral history holds a special place. Masalha calls it “social history from the bottom up” and argues that writing more sincerely about the Nakba does not mean just practicing professional historiography, but is also a moral imperative. Historians and intellectuals play a basic role when it comes to constructing a national narrative, something which has created yet another battlefield in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict since it first began. More info: http://en.casaarabe.es/event/seven-decades-of-nakba

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#ArabSpring four years later. Session 2

Seminar on “Citizen entrepreneurship, political participation and artistic expression among Arab youths.” SESSION 2: PROJECTS AND ECONOMIC INITIATIVES “The businesspeople of the revolution.” Samir Karam, entrepreneur and founder of Startup Megaphone “Creating jobs amid the crisis.” Youssef Fennira, project leader, Tunisian-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry “The State’s fragmented economies and society.” Adil Sadoq, an expert on microfinance and field project manager, Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) Moderated by: Olivia Orozco, Casa Árabe’s Training, Economics and Governance Coordinator. More information: http://en.casaarabe.es/event/arabspring-cuatro-anos-despues

Published at 02 17,,, 15 2015
#ArabSpring four years later. Session 1

Seminar on “Citizen entrepreneurship, political participation and artistic expression among Arab youths.” SESSION 1: PARTICIPATION AND POLITICAL DIALOGUE “New forms of participation and objection.” Zied Boussen, member of Jeunes Démocrates Indépendants (Tunisia). “Religious and political movements.” Nader Hashemi, director of the Center for Middle East Studies and an associate professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Politics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. “The fourth and decisive branch of power: the media.” Fátima El-Issawi, a researcher at the Middle East Centre of the London School of Economics The event will be presented and moderated by Karim Hauser, who is responsible for the Governance Area at Casa Árabe. More information: http://en.casaarabe.es/event/arabspring-cuatro-anos-despues

Published at 01 17,,, 15 2015
#ArabSpring four years later. OPENING SPEECH

Seminar on “Citizen entrepreneurship, political participation and artistic expression among Arab youths.” OPENING SPEECH The people’s entrepreneurial spirit and the future of the Arab Spring. Maryam Jamshidi, lawyer and political scientist, Muftah.org More information: http://en.casaarabe.es/event/arabspring-cuatro-anos-despues

Published at 59 17,,, 15 2015
Journeys of the music from Al-Andalus

Casa Árabe has organized this “illustrated conference”, as its performers refer to it, in order to provide music lovers and fans with some of the keys to understanding what the musical legacy from Al-Andalus consists of and why it is so closely linked to our history. With the help of Luis Delgado and César Carazo, we will take a musical tour whose starting point lies in the origins of Arab music and its journey to the Iberian Peninsula. We will become familiar with the main schools existing today in the Maghreb, the characteristic instruments, and the classical and modern performers. More information: http://en.casaarabe.es/event/los-viajes-de-la-musica-andalusi

Published at 53 17,,, 15 2015
Medios de comunicación y transición en Oriente Medio (ENG)

Conferencia a cargo de Ayman Mhanna, director ejecutivo de la Fundación Samir Kassir, celebrada el 6 de marzo de 2015 en la sede de Casa Árabe en Madrid. En ella, Mhanna analiza la situación actual de los medios de comunicación en los países de Oriente Medio, su papel en las primaveras árabes, así como su cobertura del conflicto Sirio y del Estado Islámico (EI). Más información: http://www.casaarabe.es/eventos-arabes/show/medios-de-comunicacion-y-transicion-en-oriente-medio

Published at 51 12,,, 15 2015