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Mediterranean Inequalities, a Twenty-first Century Challenge

December 17, 20206:30 p.m.
ONLINE
Casa Árabe’s YouTube channel. 6:30 p.m.
In Spanish.

On Thursday, December 17, Casa Árabe is presenting this book by Ricard Pérez Casado, published by Catarata, with the cooperation of the Assembly of Citizens of the Mediterranean Foundation (FACM). You can watch it on our Youtube channel.

The event, presented by the General Director of Casa Árabe, Pedro Martínez-Avial, will be attended by the book’s author and the president of the FACM, Vicent Garcés, as well as Laurence Thieux, a professor with the Department of International Relations and Global History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
 
Ricard Pérez Casado’s essay traces the cultural, social and religious history on both shores of the Mediterranean to explain the growing inequality and the political, economic and environmental conflicts throughout the Mediterranean area in the twenty-first century, which in large part lie at the origin of this inequality.
 
Ricard Pérez Casado has a degree in Political Science and a PhD in Contemporary History, and is a researcher and analyst in economic, social and political issues. He was the mayor of Valencia from 1979 to 1998. The European Union Administrator in Mostar (Bosnia-Herzegovina) in 1996, he was a member of the Spanish Parliament for Valencia (2000-2004). He was also President of the Delegate Commission of the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMED) from 2004 to 2005. He actively participated in anti-Franco politics and was one of the founders of the Socialist Party of Valencia.
Mediterranean Inequalities, a Twenty-first Century Challenge