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“The Tangiers Front (1936-1940)”
May 11, 20216:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
6:00 p.m.
Prior registration required. Capacity is greatly limited due to the health situation.
Register by following this link.
In Spanish.
Casa Árabe and the Marcial Pons publishing firm are presenting this
chronicle of the Spanish Civil War in the international city by Bernabé
López García. It will be held on Tuesday, May 11 at Casa Árabe’s
headquarters in Madrid. Register now to attend.
Tangiers and the Spanish Civil War are two subjects which have always been of great interest to reading audiences. No work, however, has ever been produced on both topics together to provide in-depth knowledge of what happened in the city on the Strait of Gibraltar over those three dramatic years. The area’s international status contributed to giving an image to the outside world of a “true paradise on Earth,” and that is how most of the foreign colonists living in the city experienced it. This was not the case for the Spanish, though, as they lived in confrontation and tension throughout that era. Nor was it the experience for a large part of the Muslim and Jewish populations, who also resisted the conflict under internal division.
The book, based on the newspapers published by Spain’s Republicans (El Porvenir and Democracia) and Fascists (Presente and España) and documentation from various archives in Tangiers, Nantes and Alcalá de Henares, is a chronicle of the two faces of the city, which became a true war front in which nearly fifteen thousand Spaniards were forced to live together in their respective trenches.
The event will be attended by the author and Leopoldo Ceballos, the author of Historia de Tánger. Memoria de la ciudad internacional (History of Tangiers: Memoir of the international city). The event will be presented by Pedro Martínez-Avial, the General Director of Casa Árabe.
Bernabé López García, department chair and honorary professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, is a specialist in history, migration and Spanish-Moroccan relations. Among other works, he has authored El Gran Teatro Cervantes de Tánger. Una aventura patriótica, 1913-2013 (The Great Cervantes Theater of Tangiers: A patriotic adventure, 2014) and was the editor of Francisco Serrat y Bonastre, Tánger 1916-1924 [Radiografía de la ciudad del Estrecho en vísperas del Estatuto] (Francisco Serrat y Bonastre, Tangiers 1916-1925: A snapshot of the city on the Strait on the eve of the Statute, published in 2017).
The book, based on the newspapers published by Spain’s Republicans (El Porvenir and Democracia) and Fascists (Presente and España) and documentation from various archives in Tangiers, Nantes and Alcalá de Henares, is a chronicle of the two faces of the city, which became a true war front in which nearly fifteen thousand Spaniards were forced to live together in their respective trenches.
The event will be attended by the author and Leopoldo Ceballos, the author of Historia de Tánger. Memoria de la ciudad internacional (History of Tangiers: Memoir of the international city). The event will be presented by Pedro Martínez-Avial, the General Director of Casa Árabe.
Bernabé López García, department chair and honorary professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, is a specialist in history, migration and Spanish-Moroccan relations. Among other works, he has authored El Gran Teatro Cervantes de Tánger. Una aventura patriótica, 1913-2013 (The Great Cervantes Theater of Tangiers: A patriotic adventure, 2014) and was the editor of Francisco Serrat y Bonastre, Tánger 1916-1924 [Radiografía de la ciudad del Estrecho en vísperas del Estatuto] (Francisco Serrat y Bonastre, Tangiers 1916-1925: A snapshot of the city on the Strait on the eve of the Statute, published in 2017).