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My Home Is Anywhere

July 19, 20217:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe Ambassadors’ Hall (at Calle Alcalá, 62, First Floor). 7:00 p.m. In order to attend this event in person, you must sign up in advance. Mask use is required throughout the entire event.
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On Monday, July 19 in Madrid, journalist Carla Fibla is presenting her latest book, in which she uses interviews and conversations to get us to ask ourselves whether Spanish society is truly inclusive of migrants. Sign up now  in order to attend.

What does it mean to have a home? Where can you call home when you are forced to flee? What kind of welcome do we give migrants here in Spain? In My Home Is Anywhere Carla Fibla offers an emotional yet rigorous approach to what it means to be a migrant in a society with a constant influx of enriching people who reconstruct the concepts of belonging and territoriality. She takes us on a journey which allows us to hear the stories they brought with them before arriving to Spain, while also giving us a closer look the projects they had expected to complete once here. Through interviews and conversations, our daily environment is analyzed and we are invited to ask ourselves whether Spanish society is all that integrating, and to verify it through the author’s visits with the people at “Home Routes” (“Rutas Hogar”).

Participating in the presentation along with Carla Fibla, the book’s author, will be Nicolás Castellano, an expert on migration from Cadena SER. Presented by: Cristina Juarranz, Casa Árabe’s Programming Coordinator.

Carla Fibla García-Sala (Valencia, 1973) was a correspondent in the Maghreb and Middle East for the newspaper La Vanguardia and Cadena SER. In September 2011, she founded a participatory web space for political and cultural monitoring of developments in the Arab uprising known as AISH (which means “bread” in Arabic). She has had five books published. Since returning to Madrid, she has taken part in the launches of several media, worked for Euronews and collaborated with NGOs and institutions. She currently forms part of the writing staff at Mundo Negro, where she coordinates the “Cultures” and “Africana” sections.
My Home Is Anywhere