Averroes-Cordoba Meetings. "Cordoba’s Paradigm. Identity and Diversity"

Casa Árabe and the UNESCO Chair for Conflict Resolution at Cordoba University, in collaboration with Cordoba Cultural City Foundation, organize a program that includes debates, a concert, cinema and a bookshop specialized in Arab and Islamic related topics.

It is the first Spanish edition of the Averroes Meetings, which take place in Marseille and Rabat.

THRUSDAY 3rd and FRIDAY 4th: DEBATE

The debate sessions will open on Thursday 3rd February with Cordoba’s  Paradigm in the Past. One Culture, Three Religions. Manuel Pimentel, writer and  editor, José Manuel Fajardo, writer and journalist, and Emilio González Ferrín, Arabist at the Seville University, will take part in the event.

On Friday February 4th, Gema Martín Muñoz, Casa Árabe’s Director General;  Juan Goytisolo, writer, and Ramin Jahanbegloo, philosopher at Toronto University, will discuss Cordoba’s Paradigm Projection in the Present.

The discussions will take place at the Salón de actos del Rectorado de la Universidad de Cordoba (Avda. Medina Azahara, 5) at 18.30. Free entrance.

FROM MONDAY 31st TO WEDNESDAY 2nd: Cinema

Within the activity program, there is a cinema season, which includes the show of the films Hey Cousin!, about Algerian migrants in Paris, and Amerrika, about Arab migrants in the USA, as well as the docu-fiction film Expelled 1609. The Tragedy of the Moriscos, produced by Casa Árabe on the fourth century anniversary of the Morisco expulsion from Spain.

Monday 31st January:Hey Cousin! (Salut Cousin!)
Tuesday 1st February:Amerrika
Wednesday 2nd February:Expelled 1609. The Tragedy of the Moriscos

At Andalusian Film Centre (Filmoteca de Andalucía) in Córdoba (c/ Medina y Corella, 5) at 20.00. Original version with subtitles in Spanish. Free entrance.

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 5TH: Music: From Baghdad to Cordoba

Iraqi oud player Naseer Shamma, accompanied by sitar by Ashraf Sharif Khan and by tabla by Shahbaz Hussain, dedicated to the great Cordoba caliphate character Ziryab.

At the Exhibit Hall of the Cordoba University at the Colegio Mayor Ntra. Sra. de la Asunción. (Avda. Menéndez Pidal, s/n) at 20.00. Free entrance.