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Sneak peek at our activities this September
From July 26, 2024 until September 15, 2024Check dates, times and entry conditions for each event.
MADRID, CORDOBA AND ONLINE
Casa Árabe’s headquarters.
Check dates, times and entry conditions for each event.
Like every summer, Casa Árabe’s headquarters will be closed for a few weeks in August. But before we go, we would like to leave you with a sneak peek at what we have planned for September. You will find all of the information below.
As at the beginning of each academic year, on September 1, we began the registration period for the courses at our Arabic Language Center, which this year includes important new features: intensive and semi-intensive courses all year round, dialects for children and youth discounts.
For those who want to deepen their understanding of the diversity of the Arab world by attending debates and analyses, the sixth edition of Aula Árabe Universitaria will be starting in Madrid on Monday, September 23. Our schedule of conferences, organized with the cooperation of 12 Spanish universities, will be opening with a talk by Egyptian writer Ahdaf Soueif, who will speak about the situation of Palestinian women authors
A few days before, on September 21, we will be taking part in the Festival of Ideas with a conference by Palestinian writer Liana Badr, who will speak about being a female creative in the Middle East, within the context of Palestine. As musical accompaniment to the Festival, we also collaborated with the concert by Andreas Prittwitz and Driss El Maloumi to be hosted by the Círculo de Bellas Artes on that same day.
In October at our exhibition halls in Madrid, we will be featuring the show “On Exodus and Wind: Spanish exile in the Maghreb,” which will provide an audiovisual journey through a little known episode of our history: the fleeing of Spain’s Republicans to Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco during the Spanish Civil War, and what happened to some of its main role-players in this historical event.
As part of the “Jordan Country Focus,” the exhibit “Faces and Traces of Jordan,” which can be visited at our headquarters in Madrid until September 29, will be traveling to our headquarters in Cordoba. In addition, we will be screening at least two Jordanian films in Madrid this fall: “Theeb” (Wolf) and "The Alleys". And we will once again be organizing our “tatreez” embroidery workshops, this time focusing on the Palestinian refugee population in Jordan, under the title ”Threads of the Diaspora.”
At the “Cinema by Women” Film Festival, we will be featuring a screening of "Bye, bye Tiberias" by Lina Soualem, yet another sign that we will continue to keep an eye on Palestine, undoubtedly a part of our programming until the end of the year.
In the field of literature, and as part of Casa Árabe’s internationalization effort, we will be bringing Arab writers to the Guadalajara International Book Fair (Mexico) and to the Hay Festival in Arequipa (Peru). For those staying in Madrid, we remind you that we have begun the registration period for the second period in our Reading Club, the sessions of which will be resuming on September 10 with eight new literary proposals. Throughout the quarter, we will be presenting some new publications, and we might get the chance to bring Yasmina Khadra for a visit.
As regards our headquarters in Cordoba, as part of our ”Country Focus: Sudan,” we will be presenting a conference titled “Sudan: Activists and people in the revolution,” organized in conjunction with Loyola Andalusia University, as well as hosting several screenings of films by Sudanese filmmakers.
In terms of exhibitions, throughout this autumn, at Casa Árabe’s headquarters in Cordoba, we will be showing the exhibition “Journeys of Water,” by Sara Kamalvand, which offer us a study of the hydraulic structures of Persian origin known as “qanats.” The experience will be rounded off with guided tours of “Casa del Agua” Interpretive Center in Cordoba, as well as other water infrastructures from that era still existing in the mountains of the province.
While keeping our heritage in mind and with the youngest audience in view, we will be presenting the comic book “Sira and Science in Al-Andalus,” as well as the virtual game “Al-Andalus Escape: Cordoba,” an app for mobile devices that allows you to decipher ten enigmas hidden throughout the city while learning interesting facts about the city’s heritage.
And for those who wish to get a more in-depth view of these topics, we will continue our conference series “Mosques in the Mediterranean area,” with several sessions dedicated to Jordan, along with “Semblances of Cordoba,” through which we can enjoy getting to know six new characters from the Umayyad historical era.
Until we return, you can check out Casa Árabe’s activities on our website, our social media channels (Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X (Twitter) and Linkedin), or watch and listen to our past activities on Youtube, Soundcloud and Spotify. And if you don’t want to miss anything next year, you can receive them directly in your inbox by signing up for our weekly newsletter with activities by clicking on this link.
Photo: Artwork by sculptor Anees Maani, in the exhibition “Faces and Traces of Jordan.”
For those who want to deepen their understanding of the diversity of the Arab world by attending debates and analyses, the sixth edition of Aula Árabe Universitaria will be starting in Madrid on Monday, September 23. Our schedule of conferences, organized with the cooperation of 12 Spanish universities, will be opening with a talk by Egyptian writer Ahdaf Soueif, who will speak about the situation of Palestinian women authors
A few days before, on September 21, we will be taking part in the Festival of Ideas with a conference by Palestinian writer Liana Badr, who will speak about being a female creative in the Middle East, within the context of Palestine. As musical accompaniment to the Festival, we also collaborated with the concert by Andreas Prittwitz and Driss El Maloumi to be hosted by the Círculo de Bellas Artes on that same day.
In October at our exhibition halls in Madrid, we will be featuring the show “On Exodus and Wind: Spanish exile in the Maghreb,” which will provide an audiovisual journey through a little known episode of our history: the fleeing of Spain’s Republicans to Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco during the Spanish Civil War, and what happened to some of its main role-players in this historical event.
As part of the “Jordan Country Focus,” the exhibit “Faces and Traces of Jordan,” which can be visited at our headquarters in Madrid until September 29, will be traveling to our headquarters in Cordoba. In addition, we will be screening at least two Jordanian films in Madrid this fall: “Theeb” (Wolf) and "The Alleys". And we will once again be organizing our “tatreez” embroidery workshops, this time focusing on the Palestinian refugee population in Jordan, under the title ”Threads of the Diaspora.”
At the “Cinema by Women” Film Festival, we will be featuring a screening of "Bye, bye Tiberias" by Lina Soualem, yet another sign that we will continue to keep an eye on Palestine, undoubtedly a part of our programming until the end of the year.
In the field of literature, and as part of Casa Árabe’s internationalization effort, we will be bringing Arab writers to the Guadalajara International Book Fair (Mexico) and to the Hay Festival in Arequipa (Peru). For those staying in Madrid, we remind you that we have begun the registration period for the second period in our Reading Club, the sessions of which will be resuming on September 10 with eight new literary proposals. Throughout the quarter, we will be presenting some new publications, and we might get the chance to bring Yasmina Khadra for a visit.
As regards our headquarters in Cordoba, as part of our ”Country Focus: Sudan,” we will be presenting a conference titled “Sudan: Activists and people in the revolution,” organized in conjunction with Loyola Andalusia University, as well as hosting several screenings of films by Sudanese filmmakers.
In terms of exhibitions, throughout this autumn, at Casa Árabe’s headquarters in Cordoba, we will be showing the exhibition “Journeys of Water,” by Sara Kamalvand, which offer us a study of the hydraulic structures of Persian origin known as “qanats.” The experience will be rounded off with guided tours of “Casa del Agua” Interpretive Center in Cordoba, as well as other water infrastructures from that era still existing in the mountains of the province.
While keeping our heritage in mind and with the youngest audience in view, we will be presenting the comic book “Sira and Science in Al-Andalus,” as well as the virtual game “Al-Andalus Escape: Cordoba,” an app for mobile devices that allows you to decipher ten enigmas hidden throughout the city while learning interesting facts about the city’s heritage.
And for those who wish to get a more in-depth view of these topics, we will continue our conference series “Mosques in the Mediterranean area,” with several sessions dedicated to Jordan, along with “Semblances of Cordoba,” through which we can enjoy getting to know six new characters from the Umayyad historical era.
Until we return, you can check out Casa Árabe’s activities on our website, our social media channels (Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X (Twitter) and Linkedin), or watch and listen to our past activities on Youtube, Soundcloud and Spotify. And if you don’t want to miss anything next year, you can receive them directly in your inbox by signing up for our weekly newsletter with activities by clicking on this link.
Photo: Artwork by sculptor Anees Maani, in the exhibition “Faces and Traces of Jordan.”
Work by Jordanian sculptor Anees Maani.