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Mauritania’s cultural heritage: Presentation of the project to conserve the city of Chinguetti
March 14, 20197:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
7:00 p.m.
Free entrance until the event's capacity is reached.
In French, with simultaneous translation into Spanish.
Casa Árabe and the Spanish International Development Cooperation Agency
(AECID) have organized this conference on Thursday, March 14 in Madrid.
The event will include the participation of Mamadou Kane, director of the National Museum in Nouakchott; Mohamed Ould Amara, the mayor of Chinguetti; Jerónimo Páez, the former director of the “El Legado Andalusí” Foundation, and Ana María Sánchez Salcedo, of the Heritage for Development Program (AECID). Presented by: Pedro Martínez-Avial, the General Director of Casa Árabe.
The Spanish International Development Cooperation Agency, through the Heritage for Development Program, is supporting the project to protect and conserve the collection of ancient manuscripts in the Mauritanian city of Chinguetti, included on UNESCO’s List of World Heritage Sites.
The manuscripts, handed down from generation to generation amongst several families, are of various themes, including everything from Qur’anic texts and poetry to legal treatises, and occasionally copies of original documents now lost, and even authors from Al-Andalus. They are a reflection and remembrance of cultural exchanges related with the pilgrimage and the caravan routes which crossed the desert.
The project, carried out in conjunction with the Office of the Mayor of Chinguetti, includes the involvement of cultural institutions of a national scope and the civil population, whose representatives are taking part in a program of meetings with similar Spanish institutions from March 11 to 15, 2019.
Casa Árabe, working together with the AECID, is hoping to take advantage of this opportunity to offer a broad overview of the rich heritage of Mauritania, which is little known in our country, and to show some of the results of the project carried out in Chinguetti.
Event information sheet
The Spanish International Development Cooperation Agency, through the Heritage for Development Program, is supporting the project to protect and conserve the collection of ancient manuscripts in the Mauritanian city of Chinguetti, included on UNESCO’s List of World Heritage Sites.
The manuscripts, handed down from generation to generation amongst several families, are of various themes, including everything from Qur’anic texts and poetry to legal treatises, and occasionally copies of original documents now lost, and even authors from Al-Andalus. They are a reflection and remembrance of cultural exchanges related with the pilgrimage and the caravan routes which crossed the desert.
The project, carried out in conjunction with the Office of the Mayor of Chinguetti, includes the involvement of cultural institutions of a national scope and the civil population, whose representatives are taking part in a program of meetings with similar Spanish institutions from March 11 to 15, 2019.
Casa Árabe, working together with the AECID, is hoping to take advantage of this opportunity to offer a broad overview of the rich heritage of Mauritania, which is little known in our country, and to show some of the results of the project carried out in Chinguetti.
Event information sheet
