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International African Book Exhibition (SILA)
From December 13, 2012 until December 20, 2012
On December 20th, Casa Árabe took part in this event which was held in several Spanish cities and which this year counts Morocco as guest country.
The activities at the Madrid headquarters took place from 16.00 to 20.00 and inaugurated by the launch of ‘Sila Presents’, followed by the section ‘Africa in images,’ within this framework the documentary film ‘Spring Tides’ (2006), by Fernando Carredano and Noel Víctor.
Afterwards there was a ‘Dialogue on Women and Literature,’ with the attendance of the writer Had-Ali Souad; the journalist Aurora M. Alcojor; the writer Chema Caballero, and Josefa I. Farray Cuevas, president of the Canarian Farrah Foundation and SILA 2012-2013 Organiser Committee.
Afterwards, in the event ‘Vengo a hablar de mi libro’ [I came to talk about my book], Mbuyi Kabunda Badi, director of Observatory on the Social Reality of Sub-Saharan Africa(FCA-UAM) and main author of the book, will launch ‘África en movimiento, migraciones internas y externas’ [Africa on the move, internal and external migrations].
The activities concluded with the speech ‘Morocco’s Literatures’, by Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid.
SILA is an initiative included in the framework of the Transnational Cooperation Program Madeira-Azores-Canary Islands PCT MAC 2007–2013, co financed by the FEDER funds up to 85 per cent and the Canary Islands Government by a 15 per cent, and it is also supported by several local, regional, national and international organizations.
Afterwards there was a ‘Dialogue on Women and Literature,’ with the attendance of the writer Had-Ali Souad; the journalist Aurora M. Alcojor; the writer Chema Caballero, and Josefa I. Farray Cuevas, president of the Canarian Farrah Foundation and SILA 2012-2013 Organiser Committee.
Afterwards, in the event ‘Vengo a hablar de mi libro’ [I came to talk about my book], Mbuyi Kabunda Badi, director of Observatory on the Social Reality of Sub-Saharan Africa(FCA-UAM) and main author of the book, will launch ‘África en movimiento, migraciones internas y externas’ [Africa on the move, internal and external migrations].
The activities concluded with the speech ‘Morocco’s Literatures’, by Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid.
SILA is an initiative included in the framework of the Transnational Cooperation Program Madeira-Azores-Canary Islands PCT MAC 2007–2013, co financed by the FEDER funds up to 85 per cent and the Canary Islands Government by a 15 per cent, and it is also supported by several local, regional, national and international organizations.
