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Tangiers 1916-1925: A snapshot of the city on the Strait
October 10, 20177:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
7:00 p.m.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
In Spanish.
At its headquarters in Madrid, Casa Árabe is presenting this work by
Francisco de Asís Serrat y Bonastre, a chronicle about the city’s life,
personages and political interests in the early decades of the twentieth
century.
The event will be presented by Pedro Martínez-Avial, the General Director of Casa Árabe, and will include speeches by Bernabé López García, a professor of Arab and Islamic Studies; Rocío Rojas-Marcos, who researches the Protectorate in Morocco, and Juan Serrat, an ambassador and the author’s grandson.
This book goes beyond the works which are devoted to Tangiers, because it is at the same time a description and reflection on how people lived and organized in a city which enjoyed a certain level of autonomy compared with the rest of Morocco, where very diverse national communities converged, with conflicting political interests and ambitions. It is also a chronicle, a snapshot of a moment in the city, a description of the mechanisms and individuals who interacted during a stage of urban and human change in the early decades of the twentieth century.
The author of “Tánger 1916-1925: Radiografía de la ciudad del Estrecho en vísperas del Estatuto” (“Tangiers 1916-1925: A snapshot of the city on the Strait on the eve of the Statute”), Francisco Serrat, was Minister Plenipotentiary of the city of Tangiers for nine years. Through his memories, one can recreate the social and political life of the era, when Spain was competing for control over the city with France, a nation which began to perform the effective “protection” of Morocco as a whole.
This book goes beyond the works which are devoted to Tangiers, because it is at the same time a description and reflection on how people lived and organized in a city which enjoyed a certain level of autonomy compared with the rest of Morocco, where very diverse national communities converged, with conflicting political interests and ambitions. It is also a chronicle, a snapshot of a moment in the city, a description of the mechanisms and individuals who interacted during a stage of urban and human change in the early decades of the twentieth century.
The author of “Tánger 1916-1925: Radiografía de la ciudad del Estrecho en vísperas del Estatuto” (“Tangiers 1916-1925: A snapshot of the city on the Strait on the eve of the Statute”), Francisco Serrat, was Minister Plenipotentiary of the city of Tangiers for nine years. Through his memories, one can recreate the social and political life of the era, when Spain was competing for control over the city with France, a nation which began to perform the effective “protection” of Morocco as a whole.
