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Presentation of the journal “Awraq: Journal for analysis and thought on the contemporary Arab and Islamic world,” with a monograph on the “Christian East and Arab World”
April 12, 20167:30 p.m.
CóRDOBA - MADRID
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
The presentation of issue number 12 of the journal Awraq will be held in Cordoba on April 12, and in Madrid on April 13, as part of the Fourth Arab-Christian Day: Christian tradition in the Gulf countries.
Casa Árabe has publishes issue nº 12 of “Awraq: Journal for analysis and thought on the contemporary Arab and Islamic world,” with a monograph dedicated to the “Christian East and Arab World.” This issue, corresponding to the second half of 2015, includes a selection of the presentations given during the days of events titled The East and the Arab World: Third Arab Christian Literature Days, organized by Casa Árabe and the Universidad Eclesiástica San Dámaso from April 15-17, 2015. The main body of the journal includes the articles Hosius of Cordoba and the Unity of the Mediterranean World: Christianity in the first four centuries (Patricio de Navascués); Syria’s Christian Roots: Syriac Christianity and its influence on the earliest Christian communities in the Middle East (Jacinto González Núñez); Pre-Islamic Arab Christians: Reflection on their historical presence (Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala); The Literary Legacy of Arab Christianity (Pilar González Casado); “Dhimma”: The status of Christians under Islamic authority and the situation in the Middle East (Herman Teule); Christians in the Holy Land: Testimonial history; a testimony in the difficult present; message of hope for a better future (Bishara Ebeid); Arab Christians amid Current Upheaval, Conditioned Existence and Forced Exclusion: What future awaits them? (Samir Morcos); Reflections on the status of the social fabric in the Middle East: The case of Lebanon (Hoda Nehmé); The Contribution of Arab Christianity to Modern-day Theology (Michel Younès).
Completing this monographic work are reviews of books by Birgül Açikyildiz,The Yezidis: The History of a Community, Culture and Religion (Samuel A. Lagos Aguilar); Gawdat Gabra (ed.), Coptic Civilization: Two Thousand Years of Christianity in Egypt; and Massimo Capuani, Otto F. A. Meinardus and Marie-Hélène Rutschowscaya, Christian Egypt: Coptic Art and Monuments Through Two Millennia [Introduction by Gawdat Gabra] (Victoria Khraiche Ruiz-Zorrilla); Antoine Fleyfel, Géopolitique des chrétiens d’Orient. Défis et avenir des chrétiens arabes (Aitor de la Morena); and, last of all, a book by John McHugo, Una breve historia de los árabes [A Brief History of the Arabs, translation by José Adrián Vitier] (Emilio González Ferrín).
