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“Pens and Cartoons: Arab comics in motion” is now on display in Granada
From February 15, 2017 until March 10, 2017Open from Monday through Friday, 11:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
GRANADA
Headquarters of the Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies (Fundación Euroárabe de Altos Estudios, at Calle San Jerónimo, 27, 18001 Granada).
Open from Monday through Friday, 11:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
The Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies is hosting this exhibition until March 10.
“Pens and Cartoons: Arab comics in motion” includes a complete overview of current comics and graphic novels in the Arab world through 23 works produced from 2007 to 2015, all very representative of the creative response by Arab writers and illustrators to the social and political transformations that have taken place over the last decade.
The exhibition, to be officially opened on February 15 at 11:30 a.m., forms part of the event “Arab-Muslim Con-texts: Discourses and counter-narratives to Islamophobia,” organized by Granada’s Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies. The sessions will begin at 10:00 in the morning with the conference “Islamophobia: Roots, discourses and counter-narratives from a de-colonial perspective,” given by Ramón Grosfoguel, of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley (USA), and Arzu Merali, a writer, activist and founder of the Islamic Human Rights Commission (United Kingdom). The event will be moderated by Inmaculada Marrero Rocha, the Executive Secretary of the Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies. After the exhibition’s official opening, there will be a round table discussion at noon with the title “The Value of Diversity: Preventing Islamophobia in context” with the participation of Olivia Orozco, Casa Árabe’s Training and Economic Coordinator, Pedro Rojo, President of the Al Fanar Foundation and the show’s curator, and Suhail Serghini, President of the Islamic Center of Granada and director of the Andalusia Intercultural Libraries Program. The event will be moderated by Rafael Ortega, Vice-Secretary of Cultural Cooperation at the Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies.
This show, organized by Casa Árabe and IEMed, brings Arab works of the “ninth art” closer to the Spanish public. It is divided into three sections, each focusing on a different type of medium used to create comics: “Magazines: The predecessors of new Arab comics,” “Books: The rara avis of Arab comics,” and “The Internet: A natural space for creativity in Arab comics.”
All of the excerpts shown in the exhibition were translated into Spanish by a network of translators who specialize in the different dialects of the Arabic language. All of the work was coordinated by the exhibition curator Pedro Rojo and the Al Fanar Foundation. Visitors can also view the full stories in each comic using a mobile phone app which they can use to take the exhibitions with them outside the exhibition halls themselves.
This exhibition was presented for the first time at La Alhóngida in Segovia as part of the Hay Festival in September 2015. Since then, the show has traveled to Madrid, Cordoba, Ceuta, Seville and Barcelona.
The exhibition, to be officially opened on February 15 at 11:30 a.m., forms part of the event “Arab-Muslim Con-texts: Discourses and counter-narratives to Islamophobia,” organized by Granada’s Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies. The sessions will begin at 10:00 in the morning with the conference “Islamophobia: Roots, discourses and counter-narratives from a de-colonial perspective,” given by Ramón Grosfoguel, of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley (USA), and Arzu Merali, a writer, activist and founder of the Islamic Human Rights Commission (United Kingdom). The event will be moderated by Inmaculada Marrero Rocha, the Executive Secretary of the Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies. After the exhibition’s official opening, there will be a round table discussion at noon with the title “The Value of Diversity: Preventing Islamophobia in context” with the participation of Olivia Orozco, Casa Árabe’s Training and Economic Coordinator, Pedro Rojo, President of the Al Fanar Foundation and the show’s curator, and Suhail Serghini, President of the Islamic Center of Granada and director of the Andalusia Intercultural Libraries Program. The event will be moderated by Rafael Ortega, Vice-Secretary of Cultural Cooperation at the Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies.
This show, organized by Casa Árabe and IEMed, brings Arab works of the “ninth art” closer to the Spanish public. It is divided into three sections, each focusing on a different type of medium used to create comics: “Magazines: The predecessors of new Arab comics,” “Books: The rara avis of Arab comics,” and “The Internet: A natural space for creativity in Arab comics.”
All of the excerpts shown in the exhibition were translated into Spanish by a network of translators who specialize in the different dialects of the Arabic language. All of the work was coordinated by the exhibition curator Pedro Rojo and the Al Fanar Foundation. Visitors can also view the full stories in each comic using a mobile phone app which they can use to take the exhibitions with them outside the exhibition halls themselves.
This exhibition was presented for the first time at La Alhóngida in Segovia as part of the Hay Festival in September 2015. Since then, the show has traveled to Madrid, Cordoba, Ceuta, Seville and Barcelona.
