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Nakba at 73: what lies ahead?

Published at 31 12,,, 21 2021

To commemorate Nakba Day, Casa Árabe and the Diplomatic Mission of Palestine in Spain present this conference with Hanan Ashrawi, political and civil society leader, academic and Palestinian activist. She will be speaking with José Vericat on May 17 at 6 p.m. at our headquarters in Madrid. The event will be broadcast live on Youtube and Facebook Live. 1948 marks the start of the Nakba, “catastrophe” or “disaster” in Arabic, when more than 700,000 Palestinians had to flee from their lands, and hundreds of cities and towns were destroyed or forcibly depopulated. Since then, many UN Resolutions have been disregarded by Israel, which has carried out the construction of illegal settlements and deepened its occupation of the Palestinian territories. Against the odds, the Palestinian people have refused to forget and give up the right of return and have continued to resist throughout the decades. In this conference, organized with the cooperation of the Diplomatic Mission of Palestine in Spain, Hanan Ashrawi will talk about the deep legacy of the Nakba, but also about current Palestinian affairs in the light of the recent crisis in Jerusalem and Gaza. She will also tackle the prospects for future elections and reform in Palestine and the role of the European Union. Hanan Ashrawi will be joining the event through an online connection from Ramallah and will engage in a dialogue with José Vericat, Senior Adviser at the European Institute for Peace. Presented by: Musa Amer Odeh, Ambassador of Palestine in Spain and Pedro Martínez-Avial, Director General of Casa Árabe. Hanan Ashrawi is a distinguished Palestinian leader, legislator, activist, and scholar who served as a member of the Leadership Committee and as an official spokesperson of the Palestinian delegation to the Middle East peace process, beginning with the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991. Making history as the first woman to hold a seat in the highest executive body in Palestine, she was elected as member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 2009 and most recently in 2018. She resigned in 2020. In 1996, Dr. Ashrawi was appointed as the Palestinian Authority Minister of Higher Education and Research. She was elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council representing Jerusalem in 1996, and she was re-elected for the “Third Way” bloc ticket in 2006. As a civil society activist, she founded the Independent Commission for Human Rights (1994), MIFTAH, the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (1998) and AMAN, the National Coalition for Accountability and Integrity (1999). She serves on the advisory and international boards of several global, regional and local organizations, and she is the recipient of numerous awards from all over the world, , including the distinguished French decoration, “d'Officier de l'Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur” (2016), and several academic accolades, including eleven honorary doctorates from universities in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and the Arab world. José S. Vericat is Senior Adviser at the European Institute for Peace. He’s a seasoned Middle East expert with more than two decades of experience working in conflict zones. Before joining the European Institute of Peace, he was the Carter Center’s Israel-Palestine Country Representative and Field Office Director promoting viable peace between Israelis and Palestinians and inter-Palestinian reconciliation. Previously, he was a Middle East advisor at the International Peace Institute (IPI) influencing policy-making at the UN headquarters, an EU official working on security sector reform in Palestine, and a prize-winning journalist covering the Second Intifada and the Iraq war. He has a PhD in Oriental Studies from Oxford University and an MA in International Relations from Columbia University. More information: https://en.casaarabe.es/event/nakba-at-73-what-lies-ahead Photo: Montecruz Foto. Palestine Nakba Day demo in Berlin

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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