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Taking stock of the Arab Springs
March 26, 2015From 4:00 to 9:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe headquarters (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
From 4:00 to 9:00 p.m.
You must sign up in advance.
In order to sign up, please send an e-mail message to thebigstoryfilms@gmail.com with the subject “Mayte Carrasco” and include a photocopy of your national identity card. After that, you must deposit 60 euros into the account which is indicated in the first letter which you receive subsequent to registration.
You may now register for this course given by journalist Mayte Carrasco
What has happened with the Arab Spring? How have we gone from the exemplary case of Tunisia to the violent chaos we are witnessing in Syria? What exactly is international Jihadism? How does it affect the unfinished process of the Arab revolutions? How do we define revolution, civil war and terrorism within the context of the region? How can we tell them all apart?
In order to answer these questions, on Thursday, March 26 in Madrid, war correspondent and writer Mayte Carrasco is giving an intensive course titled “Taking Stock of the Arab Springs: From Tunisia to the uprise of the Islamic State,” for which you can now register.
During this event, she will provide a historical overview of the countries which played the main roles in the Arab Springs (Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Syria) up to the current time. We will be analyzing the geo-strategic changes which the Arab Springs have caused to the world order and unravel the international community’s response to the phenomenon of the end of the so-called “Arab exception” and to twenty-first-century Jihadism and Islamist terrorism. The second part deals with the phenomenon of fundamentalism and the role it plays in the unrest. We will provide an in-depth explanation of the Jihadist phenomenon in Iraq and Syria, the role of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Syria, the changes in the terrorist groups Al-Nusra Front in Syria (Al Qaeda) and the expansion of the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq, Syria and the Sahel region, as well as its increasing role on the world stage.
The course includes the showing of audiovisual materials and provides bibliographic recommendations. It is open to a maximum of 25 participants.
Mayte Carrasco
With more than 15 years of professional experience, Mayte Carrasco is a war correspondent and writer. She was a correspondent in France and Russia, and since 2008 she has covered a wide range of armed conflicts, in Georgia, Afghanistan, Chechnya and Ingushetia (Caucasus), Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Mali and Venezuela, as well as other countries, having worked for domestic and foreign media such as iTELE-Canal Plus (France), El País, DPA (Germany), Die Welt (Germany), Público, La Nación (Argentina), Cadena SER, Yo Dona, Telecinco News, Foreign Policy Spanish Edition, OpenDemocracy (UK), etc. She produces, records and edits her own work (JRI).
In addition to other activities, Mayte Carrasco also performs excellent work as an analyst and educator at such prestigious schools and universities as Sciences Po (France) and in the UNESCO Master’s degree program in Philosophy for Peace in Castellón (UJI), as well as courses at La Casa Encendida (Obra Social Caja Madrid). She has given numerous conferences as an expert on International Security Studies (Master’s degree in Terrorism and Conflict Resolution at the University of Reading, United Kingdom) and Studies for Peace (UNESCO Master’s degree program at the UJI), and she collaborates as a journalist with the Spanish Institute of Strategic Studies (IEEE). She has made documentaries for various domestic and foreign media, the most recent in Venezuela for the German television network ZDF.
Her work in journalism has been awarded with several prizes, including one for best foreign correspondent from the International Press Club (IPC) in 2011 and the IRIS Award of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for her coverage of the war in Syria in 2014. She has had three books published, including one essay and two fictional novels, all about the Arab-Muslim world. The most recent is Espérame en el Paraíso (Wait for Me in Paradise, Plaza&Janés, 2014).
www.maytecarrasco.com
In order to answer these questions, on Thursday, March 26 in Madrid, war correspondent and writer Mayte Carrasco is giving an intensive course titled “Taking Stock of the Arab Springs: From Tunisia to the uprise of the Islamic State,” for which you can now register.
During this event, she will provide a historical overview of the countries which played the main roles in the Arab Springs (Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Syria) up to the current time. We will be analyzing the geo-strategic changes which the Arab Springs have caused to the world order and unravel the international community’s response to the phenomenon of the end of the so-called “Arab exception” and to twenty-first-century Jihadism and Islamist terrorism. The second part deals with the phenomenon of fundamentalism and the role it plays in the unrest. We will provide an in-depth explanation of the Jihadist phenomenon in Iraq and Syria, the role of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Syria, the changes in the terrorist groups Al-Nusra Front in Syria (Al Qaeda) and the expansion of the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq, Syria and the Sahel region, as well as its increasing role on the world stage.
The course includes the showing of audiovisual materials and provides bibliographic recommendations. It is open to a maximum of 25 participants.
Mayte Carrasco
With more than 15 years of professional experience, Mayte Carrasco is a war correspondent and writer. She was a correspondent in France and Russia, and since 2008 she has covered a wide range of armed conflicts, in Georgia, Afghanistan, Chechnya and Ingushetia (Caucasus), Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Mali and Venezuela, as well as other countries, having worked for domestic and foreign media such as iTELE-Canal Plus (France), El País, DPA (Germany), Die Welt (Germany), Público, La Nación (Argentina), Cadena SER, Yo Dona, Telecinco News, Foreign Policy Spanish Edition, OpenDemocracy (UK), etc. She produces, records and edits her own work (JRI).
In addition to other activities, Mayte Carrasco also performs excellent work as an analyst and educator at such prestigious schools and universities as Sciences Po (France) and in the UNESCO Master’s degree program in Philosophy for Peace in Castellón (UJI), as well as courses at La Casa Encendida (Obra Social Caja Madrid). She has given numerous conferences as an expert on International Security Studies (Master’s degree in Terrorism and Conflict Resolution at the University of Reading, United Kingdom) and Studies for Peace (UNESCO Master’s degree program at the UJI), and she collaborates as a journalist with the Spanish Institute of Strategic Studies (IEEE). She has made documentaries for various domestic and foreign media, the most recent in Venezuela for the German television network ZDF.
Her work in journalism has been awarded with several prizes, including one for best foreign correspondent from the International Press Club (IPC) in 2011 and the IRIS Award of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for her coverage of the war in Syria in 2014. She has had three books published, including one essay and two fictional novels, all about the Arab-Muslim world. The most recent is Espérame en el Paraíso (Wait for Me in Paradise, Plaza&Janés, 2014).
www.maytecarrasco.com
Mayte Carrasco at Casa Árabe in Madrid. Photo: Ray Robledo