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Presentation of “La Noria de Beirut” in Cordoba
December 19, 20187:30 p.m.
CÓRDOBA
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9).
7:30 p.m.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
In Spanish.
Journalist Tomás Alcoverro is presenting his latest work, published by
Diéresis, at the Casa Árabe headquarters in Cordoba. The presentation is
taking place on Wednesday, December 19.
Attending along with Alcoverro is the journalist with a bachelor’s degree in Semitic Philology, Aristóteles Moreno Villafaina. Presenting the event is Javier Rosón, Casa Árabe’s coordinator in Cordoba.
Veteran journalist Tomás Alcoverro has lived in Beirut since 1970 and has seen how the city was transformed into a battleground within the civil war lasting fifteen years, as well as a larege number of other shorter but no less destructive wars. This has turned Beirut into a “surrealist” city, as he himself has described it, as surreal as the country of which it is the capital, Lebanon. However, despite living through constant upheaval, Beirut never ceases to be a lively, cheerful, young city, always outward-looking, to the surprise of locals and foreigners alike, with its vibrant nightlife, its multicultural mix, its financial activity and its status as a mecca of Middle Eastern literature. Nobody knows more than Alcoverro about the forces driving a city and a country which best represent the mythical phoenix rising from its ashes: they are always reborn.
Presentation information sheet
Tomás Alcoverro is the most veteran and highly-praised correspondent in the Middle East for a Spanish media outlet. He lives in Beirut, the city from which he has become a unique witness to the events in a region undergoing constant conflict. He has lived through wars and met with leaders, all narrated through more than eight thousand chronicles on the pages of the daily newspaper La Vanguardia. Decorated for his work with Spain’s Queen Isabella Commendation and the Cross of Sant Jordi, he has earned the Godó, Gaziel, Ortega y Gasset, Vázquez Montalbán and Cirilo Rodríguez journalism awards. He has authored several books, the most recent of which is “¿Por qué Damasco?, sobre la guerra de Siria” (“Why Damascus?: On the war in Syria”).
Aristóteles Moreno Villafaina is a journalist with a bachelor’s degree in Semitic Philology from the University of Granada and a Master’s degree in Journalism from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid-El País. From 1987 to 1992, he resided in Morocco, Iraq and Egypt, countries where he completed studies in Arabic language and culture. He worked for the EFE News Agency in Cairo and in later years as a writer for many different media, such as Europa Press, La Tribuna, Cinco Días, As and El Mundo. In 1999, he joined the team which founded ABC Córdoba and in the year of 2001, he was named editor-in-chief of the edition published for the province of Cordoba. From 2007 to 2011, he coordinated the project for the Oral Memory Archives of Cordoba, promoted by the association Ágora del Pensamiento Social, of which he was the responsible technical expert. He is a weekly contributor to ABC Córdoba, an editor for the Almuzara publishing firm and a communication advisor to the Unesco Chair for Conflict Resolution at the University of Cordoba.
Veteran journalist Tomás Alcoverro has lived in Beirut since 1970 and has seen how the city was transformed into a battleground within the civil war lasting fifteen years, as well as a larege number of other shorter but no less destructive wars. This has turned Beirut into a “surrealist” city, as he himself has described it, as surreal as the country of which it is the capital, Lebanon. However, despite living through constant upheaval, Beirut never ceases to be a lively, cheerful, young city, always outward-looking, to the surprise of locals and foreigners alike, with its vibrant nightlife, its multicultural mix, its financial activity and its status as a mecca of Middle Eastern literature. Nobody knows more than Alcoverro about the forces driving a city and a country which best represent the mythical phoenix rising from its ashes: they are always reborn.
Presentation information sheet
Tomás Alcoverro is the most veteran and highly-praised correspondent in the Middle East for a Spanish media outlet. He lives in Beirut, the city from which he has become a unique witness to the events in a region undergoing constant conflict. He has lived through wars and met with leaders, all narrated through more than eight thousand chronicles on the pages of the daily newspaper La Vanguardia. Decorated for his work with Spain’s Queen Isabella Commendation and the Cross of Sant Jordi, he has earned the Godó, Gaziel, Ortega y Gasset, Vázquez Montalbán and Cirilo Rodríguez journalism awards. He has authored several books, the most recent of which is “¿Por qué Damasco?, sobre la guerra de Siria” (“Why Damascus?: On the war in Syria”).
Aristóteles Moreno Villafaina is a journalist with a bachelor’s degree in Semitic Philology from the University of Granada and a Master’s degree in Journalism from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid-El País. From 1987 to 1992, he resided in Morocco, Iraq and Egypt, countries where he completed studies in Arabic language and culture. He worked for the EFE News Agency in Cairo and in later years as a writer for many different media, such as Europa Press, La Tribuna, Cinco Días, As and El Mundo. In 1999, he joined the team which founded ABC Córdoba and in the year of 2001, he was named editor-in-chief of the edition published for the province of Cordoba. From 2007 to 2011, he coordinated the project for the Oral Memory Archives of Cordoba, promoted by the association Ágora del Pensamiento Social, of which he was the responsible technical expert. He is a weekly contributor to ABC Córdoba, an editor for the Almuzara publishing firm and a communication advisor to the Unesco Chair for Conflict Resolution at the University of Cordoba.
