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Aula Árabe Universitaria 3.2.: Geopolitics and climate diplomacy in the Mediterranean region

Published at 25 27,,, 21 2021

Second conference of the Aula Árabe Universitaria 3 program, by Jürgen Scheffran, Professor of Geography at the University of Hamburg. It will be on Tuesday, October 5 in our Auditorium in Madrid. The Mediterranean region, connecting South Europe, North Africa and Western Asia, is a complex crisis landscape and hotspot of geopolitical conflicts which can spillover into neighbouring regions. Increasingly, the region is exposed to climate change which is a multiplier of risks, interwoven with the region’s geopolitical dimensions, including natural disasters, water and food shortages, energy transformation, human migration, conflict and cooperation. Climate risks are expected to diminish human livelihood security for a growing population and interact with other pre-existing challenges to regional stability. Cooperation across the Mediterranean is difficult, given the wide disparities and divisions of the area. There is growing concern and awareness of climate-related common security challenges, to be addressed in climate diplomacy initiatives and activities, for instance water and energy partnerships, networks for information exchange and regional governance. Jürgen Scheffran is Professor of Geography at University of Hamburg and chair of the Research Group Climate Change and Security in the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability and the Climate Excellence Cluster CLICCS. After his PhD in physics, he worked in interdisciplinary research groups in environmental science and peace and conflict research at the universities of Marburg, Darmstadt, Paris and Illinois, as well as the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. In addition to networking activities, he was involved in projects for the United Nations, the Office of Technology Assessment and in the expert commission on forced migration of the German government. Main research interests are: Climate security, environmental migration and resource conflicts; water-food-energy nexus and urban-rural relations; sustainability, complex systems and models; technology assessment, arms control and international security. More information: https://en.casaarabe.es/event/geopolitics-and-climate-diplomacy-in-the-mediterranean-region-from-climate-conflict-to-cooperation

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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