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Impact of the Nakba on Palestine’s cultural heritage: tatreez (embroidery) and dabke (dance)
May 13, 20257:00 p.m.MADRIDWithin the framework of the commemoration of the seventy-seventh anniversary of the Nakba, Casa Árabe and the Spanish International Cooperation Agency (AECID) are organizing this round table discussion in Madrid on Tuesday, May 13. The talk will be followed by the presentation of the results found in the collective work from the project “Threads of the Diaspora.” Sign up and come find out all about it! -
Ibn Firnas: Science as a way of life
May 06, 20257:00 p.m.CóRDOBALong before Leonardo da Vinci became an iconic Renaissance scholar, the ninth century in Al-Andalus saw the birth of another multifaceted scholar, a forerunner of the European Renaissance. On Tuesday, May 6, we will be learning more about the story of Ibn Firnas as part of our event series “Semblances of Cordoba: The Umayyad era in the first person.” -
Traces of Identity: A journey through Tunisia’s visual arts
May 06, 20257:00 p.m.MADRIDOn Tuesday, May 6 in Madrid, Casa Árabe, with the cooperation of the Tunisian Embassy in Spain, the Ministry of Culture and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Tunis, is presenting this opening conference of the exhibition “Tunisian Enlightenments,” to be given by the exhibition’s curator. -
Contemporary Palestinian poetry
April 30, 20257:00 p.m.CORDOBAOn Wednesday, April 30, our event series dedicated to Arab poetry will be coming to an end with this lecture by Prof. Nader Al Jallad, from the University of Cordoba. He will be performing an overview of the symbolism, time periods and authors in the most recent of Palestinian poetry. -
The Arabs and Their Poetry: A journey across the centuries
From January 15, 2025 until April 30, 20257:00 p.m.CORDOBACasa Árabe is hosting this series of conferences at its headquarters in Cordoba, which was organized in conjunction with the Chair of Arab Studies of the al-Babtain Foundation and the University of Cordoba. The series will be running from January through April 2025, and the first session will be held on Wednesday, January 15, given by Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala. We hope to see you there.