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Workshops for schools to discover Moorish Madrid
From January 17, 2025 until June 20, 2025
Casa Árabe, with the cooperation of the Al Fanar Foundation, is organizing workshops for primary and secondary school students in which they can discover medieval Madrid through the comic strip “Sira and the Water Journeys” and the urban escape game “Moorish Madrid.” If you are a teacher and want your school to participate, sign up here.
The purpose of the workshops is to:
- Awaken curiosity about Madrid’s origins
- Highlight the importance of science
- Promote research and teamwork
- Foster critical reflection
They include teaching materials to work with primary and secondary school students in the classroom, before and after the workshop, to take a closer look at the topics to be addressed and through different areas of knowledge (mathematics, science, history, language, social studies).
If you are a teacher or educator, sign up with your students. Tell us about your needs (students, levels, time available) by following this link and we will make a proposal to you in this respect. For the first 10 secondary schools that register we offer free codes for the game.
Both the comic “Sira and the Water Journeys” and the urban escape game “Moorish Madrid” make it possible to travel through time with your students in order to discover the hidden secrets of medieval Madrid: science and the most famous astronomer, Maslama al-Mayriti (Maslama of Madrid), along with the city’s streets, walls and water journeys or qanats, along with Sira, a wise woman from the Ministry of Knowledge created in Cordoba during the times of the Umayyad caliphate.
These materials combine the didactic and the playful, in comic and urban escape format, through an educational app, which invites you to discover this legacy by following a game of clues and puzzleswhile visiting the city.
The objective is to highlight the value of the plural and diverse cultural and historical heritage of the cities of Madrid and (soon) Cordoba and, in particular, their Al-Andalus legacy, using characters and stories, so as to build bridges with the reality that surrounds us today as a substratum for the construction of a plural and common identity. Promoting curiosity for cultural diversity is a first step in a joint process of creating a richer, more inclusive and cohesive society based on empathy.
They are offered as tools for teachers of formal education and trainers of non-formal education to work on the Moorish past as a backbone element of the History of Spain and knowledge in Europe and the Mediterranean.
The comic book project on Moorish Madrid (“Sira and the Journeys by Water”) forms part of the “Comics of the Mediterranean” collection, a series of comic strips aimed at primary and secondary school students that show, in a playful and informative way, some of the distinctive elements of the Mediterranean region during the era of Al-Andalus. The project, coordinated by the Al Fanar Foundation for Arab Knowledge, has been given the support of Casa Árabe and the collaboration of Casa Mediterráneo, the University of Murcia (UMU) and the SM-UV Foundation Chair of Comic Studies.
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A comic and a game to discover Moorish Madrid
The Al Fanar Foundation, with the support of Casa Árabe, is presenting
the comic book “Sira and the Water Journeys” and the urban escape game
“Moorish Madrid.” Discover the hidden secrets of this city in medieval
times: its most famous astronomer and its water journeys.
From January 17, 2025 until April 13, 2025