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Presentation of “This Was My House” (“Això era casa meva”)
February 17, 20207:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
7:00 p.m.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
The film will be shown in the original language version with subtitles in Spanish.
On Monday, February 17, we will be hosting the presentation of this
documentary film at our headquarters in Madrid, with attendance by the
director, Xavi Segura, and the co-producer, Gabriel Garroum Pla. After
the film screening, a round table discussion will be held.
Taking part in the event along with Gabriel Garroum Pla, a political scientist who co-produced the film and appears in it, and Xavi Segura, the documentary’s director, is Ignacio Álvarez-Ossorio, a professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Presented by: Karim Hauser, Casa Árabe’s International Relations Coordinator
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In “Això era casa meva” (“This Was My House”), Gabriel Garroum, a Syrian-Catalan political scientist, returns to Syria after seven years of war. On his trip, he explores the largest two cities in the country: Damascus, the capital, and Aleppo, his father’s home town. We get the chance to learn about experiences during the war through testimony given by the country’s inhabitants and members of his family. Through Gabriel’s own analysis, these experiences allow us to discover how violence and the material destruction of a space transforms people’s identity. After the screening of this documentary, a round table discussion will be held.Presentation information sheet
Gabriel Garroum Pla is an inter-disciplinary researcher who specializes in International Relations and Middle East Policy, with a bachelor’s degree from Pompeu Fabra University and a Master’s degree from SOAS, University of London. His main fields of research are: political violence, critical theory, and critical security and geopolitics. He is a member of the Research Centre in International Relations (RCIR) at King’s College who has lived and worked in Spain, the United Kingdom, Turkey and Lebanon.
Film information
Title: “This Was My House”
Original title: “Això era casa meva”
Year: 2018
Genre: documentary
Duration: 43’
Language: Catalan and Arabic
Subtitles: Spanish
