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Aula Árabe 3.15. Skin in the Game: Being a local Middle Eastern woman journalist

Published at 09 10,,, 22 2022

On Monday, March 14, we will be hosting a new session of the Aula Árabe Universitaria program at Casa Árabe’s headquarters, to be given by Syrian journalist Zaina Erhaim. The activity, which forms part of Casa Árabe’s Women’s Week, can be watched live on YouTube. Being a freelance journalist in the Middle East and North Africa is a dangerous job,especially when considering the degree of impunity that exists in the region. But being a woman adds several layers of difficulty and many challenges more, including sexism, gender stereotyping and sexual harassment. Female journalists who report on their communities’ issues to the international media cannot escape these challenges or the domestic discrimination they face at home; they must also deal with the post-colonial bias shown by their colleagues and the Western media. Through the experience of Syrian journalist Zeina Erhaim, the issues that hinder the careers and lifelong growth of women journalists in the MENA region will be addressed. The event has been organized with the cooperation of the Dual Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and Humanities at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and forms part of the program Aula Árabe Universitaria, as well as the activities forming part of Women’s Week at Casa Árabe. Presented by Leila Nachawati, a professor of Communication at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. The event will be moderated by Karim Hauser, Casa Árabe’s International Relations Coordinator. Zaina Erhaim is an award-winning Syrian journalist who works as a communications and gender expert with some international organizations in the Middle East and North Africa region. She contributed to three books about journalism and women, including Our Women on the Ground. She worked with the IWPR (Institute for War & Peace Reporting ) as a communications manager for eight years. Prior to that, she was a journalist for the BBC. She writes for different media outlets, such as Newslines Magazines, Open Democracy and Al Modon, as well as others. Erhaim holds a Master’s degree in International Journalism from the City University of London. Photo: Zaina Erhaim Más información: https://en.casaarabe.es/event/worked-to-the-bone-being-an-arab-woman-journalist-in-the-middle-east

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Conference: "Tea with Nefertiti"

Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, the co-founders Art reoriented, a multidisciplinary curatorial platform based in Munich and New York, talk about their critically acclaimed exhibition Tea with Nefertiti, currently on show at IVAM, Valencia after a successful run at Mathaf, Doha and IMA, Paris. Through discussing the curatorial premise and methodology behind the show, they highlight the ways through which an artwork acquires different meanings and agencies when it travels through time and place. Through employing the Nefertiti bust as a metaphorical thread, and by interrogating the contested history of Egyptian Museum collections from the 19th century onwards, Bardaouil and Fellrath explore how an artwork can become a tool for the writing of much-contested narratives that serve as frameworks through which an image of another culture can be imagined and consequently fixed. More info: http://en.casaarabe.es/news/tea-with-nefertiti-the-creation-of-images-of-culture-through-the-arts

Published at 36 12,,, 14 2014
Conferencia: "En primera persona", por Afif Safieh [V.O inglés/español]

Ponencia inaugural de la Semana de Palestina en Casa Árabe, a cargo de uno de los diplomáticos palestinos más experimentados. Afif Safieh ha servido en las tres capitales de mayor importancia política: Londres, Washington y Moscú. Musa Amer Odeh, embajador de Palestina en España, y Eduardo López Busquets, director general de Casa Árabe, presentan el acto.

Published at 36 12,,, 14 2014
Ministerial Debate Forum on the Future of Tourism in the MENA Region

Casa Árabe and the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) organize a Ministerial Debate Forum on The Future of Tourism in the Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA according to its acronym in English) with the cooperation of Casa Mediterráneo, as well as the support of IFEMA and Fitur 2014. The forum brings together the Tourism Ministers of the countries which receive the most tourism in the region and will be devoted to analyzing the future prospects of the tourism industry in the region. The official opening is presided over by the State Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Gonzalo de Benito Secades, the General Director of Casa Árabe, Eduardo López Busquets, and the Secretary General of the UN World Tourism Organization, Taleb Rifai. More: http://en.casaarabe.es/news/ministerial-debate-forum-on-the-future-of-tourism-in-the-mena-region-

Published at 36 12,,, 14 2014
Conference: "Microfinance in the Arab World", by Tawfiq Nassar

Conference given by Tawfiq Nassar. Since the earliest experiments carried out in the 1970's to provide small loans to people or groups with few economic resources (usually excluded from the traditional financial system), micro-loans have grown exponentially and have now become a sophisticated industry. However, experiences in the Arab region vary greatly from one country to the next. In terms of products, scale and inclusiveness, microfinancing still has a great deal of potential to be developed in this area. More: www.casaarabe.es/noticias-arabes/show/microfinanzas-en-el-mundo-arabe

Published at 34 12,,, 14 2014
Conference: "New Art Market Scenarios: The Emerging Scene in Saudi Arabia

What characterizes the emerging art scene in the Gulf region? What place does Saudi Arabia hold, and more specifically the cities of Riyadh and Jeddah, in its development? In what direction are the artists, collectors and managers who work in the region looking? Taking advantage of the special moment provided by the ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair and the exhibition by Ayman Yossri in Madrid, Casa Árabe and Madrid's Sabrina Amrani Gallery are organizing a round table discussion with role-players who have first-hand knowledge of this cultural reality, which is not commonly experienced within our country's art scene. Visual artist Ayman Yossri converses with collector Basma Al Sulaiman, the founder of Basmoca, Saudi Arabia's first virtual art museum, and with Sara Raza, an art curator and expert on art from Central Asia and the Middle East, with a great deal of experience in the Gulf region. More: en.casaarabe.es/news/new-art-market-scenarios-the-emerging-scene-in-saudi-arabia

Published at 34 12,,, 14 2014