ANNUAL REPORT 2009 Casa Árabe Is a Consortium Comprising

ANNUAL REPORT 2009 Casa Árabe is a consortium comprising

Casa Árabe 2009 1 Casa Árabe 2009 3 Letter from the President

Miguel Ángel Moratinos Cuyaubé Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation

Overall, the activities of Casa Árabe in 2009 tioned because of their importance: Water in reflect the consolidation of this inter-institutio- the Arab world: global perceptions and local nal consortium with the participation of the realities; Islamophobia under discussion; Regional Governments of Andalusia and Islamisms in context: political participation, Madrid and the City Councils of Madrid and contestation and rebellion; Arts and education Córdoba alongside the Ministry of Foreign through new technologies; Towards a univer- Affairs and Cooperation and the Spanish sal moratorium on the death penalty. The Agency for International Cooperation for Case of the Arab countries; United States- Development (AECID). In just four years, we Maghreb: challenges and prospects. have brought the Arab and Muslim world closer to Spain and to Europe, at the same time This year has seen the institution acquire greater as significant exchanges of knowledge have recognition as an educational establishment been established with their societies, cultures, with the successful development of the Arabic economies and political systems, promoting Language Centre, which registers increasing dialogue between civil societies and immi- numbers of students year on year, as well as grant communities. the programming of courses at the Diplomatic School and in universities inside and outside We have begun a process of mutual enrichment our country. in which the extension of Casa Árabe’s resources, namely the Edward W. Said media library and In 2009 Casa Árabe took a qualitative and the Baibars bookshop, have played a special quantitative step forward in the field of part, as have the international seminars and publishing, having decided to publish a new conferences, cultural and scientific activities, series of the journal Awraq, which it co- thus reinforcing its status as a landmark insti- publishes with AECID, and to launch such tution in Arab and European countries, as well important publications as: Los árabes en as among their institutional, social, cultural and América Latina: historia de una emigración scientific players. (Arabs in Latin America: a history of emigration); Contribuciones árabes a las identidades The main research lines pursued at Casa Ára- iberoamericanas (Arab contributions to Ibero- be’s International Institute of Arab and Muslim american identities); Consecuencias económi- World Studies in Córdoba include political cas y ecológicas de los conflictos en el reforms and socioeconomic trends in Arab mundo árabe (Economic and ecological con- countries, Arab and Muslim women, Muslims sequences of the conflicts in the Arab world); of the West, and Islamisms in context. It also Musulmanes en España. Guía de referencia fosters research projects with international (Muslims in Spain. A Reference Guide). networks on: Woman and family in current Arab societies and Muslim traditions in secu- Casa Árabe’s 2009 Annual Report reflects the lar Europe. vitality, rigour and modernity of Spanish public diplomacy, at the same time as it high- Among the seminars and conferences under- lights significant advances in questions of taken by Casa Árabe in the course of 2009, programming, resources and institutional the following, among others, should be men- consolidation.

Casa Árabe 2009 5 Letter from the Director General

Gema Martín Muñoz Director General

For Casa Árabe, 2009 represents a year of out by its International Institute of Arab and consolidation after moving in mid-2008 to our Muslim World Studies (IEAM), among which the headquarters at the Aguirre Schools in Madrid projects devoted to Women and family, and at the invitation of Madrid City Council. The Islamic movements in Europe are particularly permanent programmes (exhibitions, semi- noteworthy. nars, lectures, cinema, Arabic courses) provided in the facilities of this magnificent building As an instrument of public diplomacy, ano- have made significant progress in terms of ther function undertaken by Casa Árabe both public attending and participants. It has since its inception, three very visible lines of also seen the birth of new spaces and projects. political, economic and cultural action have been pursued in 2009. Outstanding persona- In October, we inaugurated the Media Library, lities and Arab political representatives have which we have named after Edward W. Said, visited and learned how much importance in homage to the great Palestinian intellectual Spain grants to this part of the world through who died in 2003. This is the first media library this representative institution dedicated to in Spain to specialise in Arab and Islamic their countries. Likewise, our institution countries. In June and July, Casa Árabe opened makes every effort to facilitate economic rela- up its garden (the hadiqa) with a summer pro- tions and investment between Spanish com- gramme including concerts and open-air panies and the Arab financial and economic films. In addition, we have engaged in a line of world, organising Hispano-Arab entrepreneu- work on educational and intercultural pro- rial forums on respective business opportuni- grammes for children carried out with schools, ties in substantial areas such as tourism, Muslim associations and organisations focu- renewable energies, Islamic banking, etc. sing on issues relating to migration. We have Finally, through culture we are building brid- disseminated a great deal of scientific work ges between the creative world and the con- through discussion panels and book laun- temporary arts, turning culture into a political ches. All this activity has made our institution instrument of mutual rapprochement and dis- an open space enjoying considerable partici- covery. Our exhibitions, cinema and music pation from the citizenry. programmes are intended to disseminate the rich creative dynamics that exist nowadays in Topics and questions of great political, econo- Arab countries, bringing our society into con- mic and social importance, related to the current tact with their creators, little known in Spain situation of Arab and Muslim countries (migra- or more generally in the West. tion, water, the death penalty, Islamophobia, Islamisms, etc.) have been analysed and discus- Thus, in keeping with the significant place that sed in seminars by leading Arab and Western the Arab and Muslim region occupies in Spain’s figures, academics and policy makers, so that international relations and foreign policy, Casa Casa Árabe has also emerged as a landmark Árabe continues to grow and strengthen institution contributing expertise, analysis and itself as a landmark institution at the service recommendations. This work is supported and of knowledge, communication and relations strengthened by the research projects carried between States, societies and individuals.

Casa Árabe 2009 7 Governing Bodies 8

Governing Board

President Alfonso Lucini Mateo Director General of Foreign Policy Miguel Ángel Moratinos Cuyaubé Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Fidel Sendagorta Gómez del Campillo Director General of Foreign Policy for the Mediterranean, Maghreb and Middle East Vice Presidents Carlos Alberdi Alonso José Antonio Griñán Martínez Director of Cultural and Scientific Relations President of the regional government of Andalusia Carmen Moreno Raymundo Director of Cooperation with Africa, Asia and Esperanza Aguirre Gil de Biedma Eastern Europe President of the regional government of Madrid Juan Díaz Muñoz Meeting of the and High the Board of Trustees Adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Governing Board Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón Jiménez Cooperation Mayor of Madrid Mª del Mar Moreno Ruiz Andrés Ocaña Rabadán Minister for the presidency and spokesper- Mayor of Cordoba son of the regional government of Andalusia

Members Ignacio González González Vice president, Minister for Culture and Soraya Rodríguez Ramos Sports and spokesman of the regional Secretary of State and President of the government of Madrid Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development Ana María Román Martín Councillor for Coordination of Studies and Ángel Lossada Torres-Quevedo External Relations of Madrid City Hall Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Rafael Blanco Perea Esperanza Aguirre Gil de Biedma José Antonio Griñán Martínez President of the regional government of President President of the regional government of Andalusia Diego López Garrido First Deputy Mayor and Delegate for Institutional Madrid Secretary of State for the European Union Relations and Culture of Cordoba Town Hall

Director General

Gema Martín Muñoz Doctor in Arab and Islamic Studies and Professor of Sociology of the Arab and Islamic World at the Autonomous University of Madrid Andrés Ocaña Rabadán Mayor of Cordoba Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón Jiménez Mayor of Madrid

Casa Árabe 2009 9 Diplomatic Board

HRH Prince Saud Bin Naif Bin Abdelaziz Mohammed Ridha Kechrid Al- Saud Ambassador of the Republic of Tunisia Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Chucri Abboud Ambassador of the Republic of Lebanon Omar Azziman Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco Hissa Abdulla Ahmed Al Otaiba Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates Zaid Al-Lozi Ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom of Hamad Bin Hamad Al-Ibrahim Al-Attiya Jordan Ambassador of the State of Qatar

Mohammed Haneche Ajeli Abdussalam Ali Breni Ambassador of the Democratic and Popular Ambassador of the Popular Office of the Republic of Algeria Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Adil Hamad M. Al Ayyar Souhel Jinad Ambassador of the State of Kuwait Chargé d’Affaires of the Arab Republic of Syria Yasser Morad Hossny Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Salem Yehya Hassan Alkharejah Egypt Chargé d’Affaires of the Republic of Yemen

Eluzai Moga Yokwe Samir Al-Qas Petross Ambassador of the Republic of Sudan Chargé d’Affaires of the Republic of Iraq

Sheikh Hilal Marhoon Salim Al Mamary Musa Amer Odeh Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman High Representative of Palestine

Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar Hassine Bouzid Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Office Director of the League of Arab Meeting of the diplomatic board of Casa Árabe with the minister of Foreign Affairs and Mauritania States Cooperation and president of Casa Árabe, Miguel Ángel Moratinos

Casa Árabe 2009 11 High Board of Trustees

Under the Honorary Presidency of Their Majesties the King and Queen of Spain

Ministry of Culture CEPSA High Board of Chambers Promomadrid Ángeles González-Sinde Santiago Bergareche Busquet of Commerce Jesús Sainz Muñoz Minister of Culture Chairman Javier Gómez Navarro Chairman Chairman Ministry of Education CEPYME (Spanish Ramón Vizcaíno Refrigeración Ángel Gabilondo Pujol Confederation of Small and Iberdrola José Ramón Vizcaíno Minister of Education Medium Companies) Ignacio Sánchez Galán Chairman Jesús Bárcenas López Chairman Ministry of Industry, Chairman Repsol Tourism and Trade ICEX (Spanish Institute Antonio Brufau Niubó Miguel Sebastián Gascón CESCE for Foreign Trade) Chairman Minister of Industry, Juan Badosa Silvia Iranzo Gutiérrez Tourism and Trade Chairman Chairwoman SGAE (Spanish Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers) Abengoa Comisiones Obreras (Workers IDB Group Eduardo Bautista Felipe Benjumea Llorente Commissions) Ahmed Mohamed Ali Chairman of the Board of Directors Chairman Ignacio Fernández Toxo Chairman Secretary General State Society for International Acciona Instituto Cervantes Exhibitions, SEEI José Manuel Entrecanales Dubai Port World Carmen Caffarel José Eugenio Salarich Fernández Domecq Mohammed Sharaf Director de Valderrama Chairman Chief Executive Officer Chairman of the Board of Directors Joly Group ACS Foundation Elecnor José Joly Martínez Técnicas Reunidas Antonio García Ferrer Fernando Azaola Arteche de Salazar José Lladó Fernández-Urrutia Deputy Chairman Chairman. Chief Executive Officer Chairman Chairman Unión General de Trabajadores Agbar Extenda (Trade Promotion League of Arab States (General Union of Workers) Ángel Simón Grimaldos Agency of Andalusia) Amr Musa Secretary General Cándido Méndez Chairman Teresa Sáez Carrascosa Secretary General General Director Mondragón Altadis Josu Ugarte Unicaja José Francisco Mateu Isturiz FEMP (Spanish Federation of Chairman Mondragón Braulio Medel Cámara General Manager Municipalities and Provinces) Internacional Chairman Pedro Castro Vázquez Aresbank Chairman Museo Nacional Centro Villar Mir Group Juan Carlos Montañola de Arte Reina Sofía Juan Miguel Villar Mir Executive Chairman Fertiberia Manuel Borja-Villel Chairman Francisco J. de la Riva Director Banco Marroquí de Chairman Vocento Group Comercio Exterior OPEC Fund for International Santiago de Ybarra Radi Hamudeh Gas Natural Development y Churruca General Manager Salvador Gabarró Serra Suleiman J. Al-Herbish Honorary Chairman Chairman Director General Banco Santander Antonio Escámez Godó Group P4R, S.A. Member Javier Godó Muntañola Carmen Rodríguez Díaz of the Executive Committee Chairman Chairwoman

CEOE (Spanish Confederation Grespania Prisa Group of Employer’s Organizations) Luis Hernández Sanchís Ignacio Polanco Gerardo Díaz Ferrán Chief Executive Officer Chairman Chairman

Casa Árabe 2009 13 Advisory Board

Cherif Abderrahman Jah Alberto Elena Hala Mustafa Felipe Sahagún Chairman of the Foundation of Islamic Professor of Film Studies. Carlos III Director of Political Studies of the Al Ahram Member of the Editorial Board of the daily EL Culture University of Madrid Centre of Strategic and Political Studies. MUNDO. Professor of the Faculty of Editor of the magazine “Democracy”, Egypt Information Sciences, Complutense Nasr Abu Zayd Malika Embarek López University of Madrid Ibn Rushd Chair of Islam and Humanism, Translator Miquel Nadal University of Utrecht Ex-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Yezid Sayigh Ramón Enciso Bergé Director of Foundations and International Professor of Middle East Studies, King’s Talal Asad Coordinator of the Spanish Group of the Relations area of the Royal Automobile Club College, London Anthropologist, New York University Averroes Committee of Catalonia (RACC) Antoni Segura i Mas Muhammed Barrada Thierry Fabre Hamurabi Noufouri Director of the Centre for International and Moroccan writer Writer. Editor of the magazine “La Pensée Course Director of Arab, American-Arab and History Studies, Barcelona University du Midi” and organiser of annual Islamic Studies of the Third February Asef Bayat “Rencontres d’Averroes” (Averroes University, Argentina Khalil Shiqaqi Academic Director of the International Meetings) in Marseille Director de Palestinian Centre for Policy and Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern Andrés Ortega Survey Research (Palestine) World, Leiden University José María Ferré de la Peña Director of the Analysis and Studies Special Ambassador for Relations with Department. Prime Minister’s Office Riay Tatari Alfonso Carmona González Muslim Communities and Organisations Secretary General of the Islamic Commission Chairman of the Spanish Society of Arab Abroad Joaquín Ortega Salinas of Spain Studies (SEEA) Ambassador of Spain Ghassan Finianos Manuel Torres Aguilar Emilio Casinello Aubán Professor of Muslim Arab Philosophy. Juan Antonio Pacheco Paniagua Vice Rector and Director of the UNESCO Chair Ambassador of Spain. Director General of Damascus University Professor of Arab Studies. Seville University for Conflict Resolution at Cordoba University the Toledo International Centre for Peace Juan Goytisolo Jerónimo Páez López Darío Valcárcel Mohammed Chaib Writer Director of El Legado Andalusí Foundation Editor of the magazine “Política Exterior” Member of the Parliament of Catalonia and (Foreign Policy) Chairman of the Ibn Batuta Sociocultural José Guirao Maria Angustias Parejo Fernández Association Director of La Casa Encendida Arts Centre Professor of Political Sciences and Antonio Vallejo Triano Administration. Granada University Director of the Madinat Al Zahra archaeologi- Juan Cierco Jiménez de Parga, Juan Miguel Hernández León cal site Director General of International Information, Chairman of Madrid´s Fine Arts Circle Manuel Pérez Yruela Ministry of the Presidency Director of the Institute of Advanced Social Fernando Vallespín Haydar Ibrahim Ali Studies of Andalusia IESA-CSIC Professor of Political Sciences, Autonomous George Corm Director of the Centre for Sudanese Studies University of Madrid Economist and sociologist. Former Finance Khartoum James Piscatori Minister of Lebanon. Professor at Saint Political Scientist, Centre for Arab and Islamic Enrique Vázquez Domínguez Joseph University of Beirut Saad Kettani Studies, Australian National University Leader writer of the Vocento group Chairman of Wafa Assurance. Member of the Federico Corriente Córdoba Averroes Committee Kamal Rahmouni María Jesús Viguera Molins Professor of Arabic Language. Saragossa President of the Association of Moroccan Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies, University Bassma Kodmani Immigrant Workers in Spain (ATIME) Complutense University of Madrid Political Scientist. Executive Director of the Álvaro de Vasconcelos Arab Reform Initiative, Paris Manuel Romero Marcos Director of the European Union Institute for Curator of cultural exhibitions Security Studies (EUISS) Pedro López de Aguirrebengoa Ambassador of Spain Caridad Ruiz de Almodóvar, Jorge Dezcallar Mazarredo Professor of Contemporary History of Islam, Ambassador of Spain to the United Pedro Martínez Montávez Granada University States Emeritus Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies, Autonomous University of Madrid Abdallah Saaf Driss El Yazami Professor of Political Sciences and Director General Secretary of the International Diego Moya of the Centre of Studies and Research in Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and Western Mediterranean Cultural Association, Social Sciences (CERES). Mohamed V Director of Génériques MEDOCC University of Rabat

Casa Árabe 2009 15 Facilities

Auditorium Media Library

Bookshop

Exhibition room

Arabic Language Center

Classroom

Documentation Center

Café

Garden

Casa Árabe 2009 17 Inauguration Casa Árabe’s Edward W. Said Media Library

October 14th, 2009, saw the inauguration of Casa Árabe’s media library, the first in Spain to specialise in the audio-visual production of Arab and Islamic countries, and open to the general public. Cinema, music, painting, sculpture, animation, photography, engra- vings, design, video-art and artnet, along with methods for learning Arabic, are areas with a rich and diverse audio-visual production contributing to the media library’s holdings.

In tribute to the great Palestinian intellectual Edward W. Said, the media library has been named after him with the enthusiastic agreement of his widow Mariam Said. One of the special collections in the media library is dedicated to collecting his enormous, multifaceted work.

Through the media library, Casa Árabe wishes to direct the interest of Spanish society towards audio-visual representations and It also has a reference library with exhibition contemporary Arabic visual art creations, catalogues, monographs on artists, biogra- which is undergoing a complete renovation phies, works on contemporary visual art, and development. From the traditional to the magazines on contemporary art, cinema, most avant-garde, sound and image have music and a specialist collection on teaching made it possible to create works that compri- and learning the Arabic language which se a very broad area of experimentation and allows consultation of manuals for different reflection, where technology, visual objects skill levels, as well as dictionaries and new and rhythms are able to communicate the methods, both for standard Arabic and the contemporary realities of Arab cultures not different dialectal varieties. widely known in Spain. To mark the occasion of the inauguration of the media library, an international seminar was organised on the subject of Arts and education through new technologies: the value of media libraries, as well as the exhibition TransArab: contemporary video.

Casa Árabe 2009 19 Casa Árabe’s Baibars Bookshop Inauguration of Casa Árabe’s Baibars bookshop

Since April, 2009, Casa Árabe has housed in its Madrid headquarters a bookshop specialising in Arab and Islamic topics and authors. Since its inception, Casa Árabe has CASA ÁRABE HAS GONE TO GREAT LENGTHS gone to great lengths to promote new publications written by Arabs or on Arab topics, TO PROMOTE NEW PUBLICATIONS WRITTEN since, although a not insignificant number of new titles are published every year they too BY ARAB AUTHORS OR ON ARAB TOPICS often pass unnoticed due mainly to the scarcity of themed bookshops and spaces offering an overview of this book production. Setting up Casa Árabe’s Baibars bookshop culminates this divulgative activity, making available to both the general public and the specialist reader a means of accessing the Arab and Islamic world through books. Baibars, the company managing the bookshop, is renowned for its long experience in Arab matters.

The bookshop catalogue offers an abundant selection of all current titles published in Spain related to the Arab and Muslim world, on the most varied topics: Arabic language, sociology, politics, history, narrative, poetry, philosophical thought, art, photography, children’s literature, comics, cuisine, travel and many more. There are also numerous titles in Arabic and other languages, discs and DVDs. Orders are accepted for any title, Spanish or foreign, not available in the bookshop. It also offers the possibility of buying on-line, thus ensuring access to this bibliography without any geographical barriers. Casa Árabe’s Baibars bookshop had a stand at the International Book Fair in Guadalajara (Mexico), the Book Fairs in Madrid, Córdoba and Seville, and during the Nights of Ramadan Festival.

Casa Árabe 2009 21 The International Institute of Arab and Muslim World Studies

Casa Árabe’s International Institute of Arab Muslim traditions in secular Europe and Muslim World Studies (IEAM) is a rese- Since July, 2008, Casa Árabe’s IEAM has parti- arch centre with various lines of work that cipated in a project driven jointly by the have been consolidated since it was set up in University of Utrecht, the Zentrum Moderner 2007. With its headquarters in Córdoba, the Orient (ZMO, Berlin) and the European University Institute brings together a multidisciplinary Viadrina (Frankfurt on the Oder). This project, group of researchers and runs or belongs to designated Muslim traditions in secular Europe, several research networks in Europe and Arab is intended to create and consolidate a network countries. These research lines complement of researchers in Europe and North America other areas worked on by Casa Árabe, thus researching the question of Islam and Europe. enabling the effective transfer of academic The research network periodically organises knowledge through the Culture, Education, themed seminars with the aim of exchanging Publications, Socioeconomic Programme and work experiences and seeking ways to streng- the Sociopolitical Observatory areas. The then scientific cooperation between countries research programmes and their results give and their respective academic institutions. rise to publications, seminars, conferences and specialist training and postgraduate pro- On May 26th and 27th, 2009, the network grammes organised by Casa Árabe or in held a seminar in Casa Árabe on the topics of collaboration with other institutions inside or Law and policies and After multiculturalism: outside Spain. towards a cosmopolitan dialogue in a pluralist Europe? The research priorities are: • Political reforms and socioeconomic trends The following researchers took part: in Arab countries; • Arab and Muslim women; • Schirin Amir-Moazami (European • Muslims of the West; University Viadrina) • Islamisms in context. • Elena Arigita Maza (Casa Árabe-IEAM) • Carmen Becker (Radboud University Nijmegen) Research Projects • Martin van Bruinessen (University of Women and families in current Arab Utrecht) societies • Alexandre Caeiro (University of Utrecht) • Sarah Dornhof (European University 2009 saw the end of the first phase of a major Viadrina) research project jointly managed by Sophie Bessis and Gema Martín Muñoz to investiga- • Knut Graw (ZMO) te the different realities of Arab and Muslim • Heiko Henkel (University of Copenhagen) women. This first part focused on Women • Christine Jacobsen (University of Oslo) and families in Arab countries, taking as its • Jeanette Jouili (University of Amsterdam) point of reference the impact of demographic • Martjin de Koning (University of changes on the family model and the status Amsterdam) of women. The participants in the multidisci- • Jens Kutscher (University of Erlangen- plinary research group were as follows: Nuremberg) Mohamed al-Dbiyat (French Institute of the • Ruth Mas (University of Colorado at Middle East, IFPO, in Damascus), Houria Boulder) Alami Mchichi (King Hassan II University, • Gema Martín Muñoz (Casa Árabe-IEAM) Casablanca), Penny Johnson (Birzeit • Annelies Moors (University of University, Ramallah), Thérèse Locoh Amsterdam) (National Institute for Demographic Studies, Simona Pagano INED, Paris), Saïda-Dorra Mahfoudh-Draoui • (European University (University of Tunis), Zahia Ouadah-Bedidi Viadrina) (Paris Diderot University, Paris), Nouredine • Frank Peter (European University Saadi (University of Artois), Soraya al-Torki Viadrina) (American University in Cairo), Alberto Veira- • Dietrich Reetz (ZMO) Ramos (King Charles III University in Madrid • Javier Rosón Lorente (Casa Árabe-IEAM) and the Georg-August-Universität in • Annemeik Schlatmann (European Göttingen). University Viadrina)

Casa Árabe 2009 23 The International Institute of Arab and Muslim World Studies

THE NTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF 24 ARAB AND MUSLIM WORLD STUDIES Casa Árabe Living together: European Citizenship Islamic movements in Europe • Samim Akgönül (Marc Bloch University, • Gerdien Jonker (Georg-Eckert Institute für against Racism and Xenophobia Strasbourg) internationale Schulbuchforschun, The Islamic Movements in Europe project coor- 2009 Brunswick) Since December, 2008, Casa Árabe has been dinated by Frank Peter (University of Bern) and • Chris Allen (University of Birmingham) taking part in this European project led by the Rafael Ortega Rodrigo (Casa Árabe-IEAM) sets • Samir Amghar (Higher Studies School for • Jeanette Jouili (University of Amsterdam) Observatory on Racism and Xenophobia (OBE- out to make highly specialised academic kno- the Social Sciences, Paris) • Melanie Kamp (Zentrum Moderner Orient, RAXE) of the Spanish Ministry of Labour and wledge on Islamism and Islamic movements • Schirin Amir-Moazami (Free University ZMO, Berlin) Immigration. Co-financed by the specific pro- accessible to a broad public with an academic Berlin) • Martijn de Koning (Radboud University of gramme for Constitutional Rights and and/or professional interest (journalists, political • Elena Arigita Maza (Casa Árabe-IEAM) Nijmegen) Citizenship (2007-2013) and managed by the and social activists, religious leaders, etc.). The • Akil N. Awan (Royal Holloway, University • Philip Lewis (University of Bradford) European Commission’s Directorate-General project will result in a book to be published in of London) • Inge Liengaard (University of Aarhus) for Justice, Freedom and Security, this project 2010. This work is intended to respond to an • Jørgen Bæk Simonsen (University of • Ural Manço (Saint-Louis University aims to promote a European discourse of tole- interested public so as to make available empi- Copenhagen) Schools, Brussels) rance, generate arguments for co-existence rical knowledge of Islamic groups (structure, and respect, recognition of differences and the leadership, members, activities, networks or • Synnove Bendixsen (University of Bergen) • Ermete Mariani (University of Lyon) construction of a European citizenship free from relationships between them…). Likewise, con- • Yahya Birt (Islamic Foundation, Leicester) • Seán McLoughlin (University of Leeds) any form of racism or xenophobia. This project cepts and models are proposed to allow rea- • Sarah Bracke (Catholic University of • Imran Mogra (University of Central brings together NGOs and institutions from ders to contextualise the information coming Louvain) England, Birmingham) Spain (OBERAXE, Casa Árabe, Consortium of from the media, concise theses are presented • Alexandre Caeiro (Erlangen Center for • Jordi Moreras (Rovira i Virgili University, Entities for Integrated Action with Migrants, on the activities of these groups and the rea- Islam and the Law in Europe, University of Tarragona) CEPAIM, the Spanish Red Cross, Barcelona sons for their (apparent) success among sec- Utrecht) • Shaida Nabi (University de Manchester) Provincial Council, Movement against tors of the Muslim communities, and a context • Mohamed Darif (King Hassan II University, • Jon Alix Olsen (University of Copenhagen) Intolerance), Finland (the Home Affairs Ministry is provided and extended for a debate on the Casablanca) and Ihmisoikeusliitto, the Finnish League for usage of such concepts as Islamic, fundamen- • Firdaous Oueslati (University of Leyden) Human Rights, FLHR), Sweden (Centrum mot talist, Islamist, radical or extremist and the pro- • Mohamed El Battiui (Free University, • Muzammil Quraishi (University of Salford) Brussels) rasism or Centre against Racism), Netherlands blems that arise out of their ideologisation. • Dietrich Reetz (ZMO) (Erasmus University in Rotterdam), Portugal • Nadia Fadil (Catholic University of Louvain) • Lutz Rogler (University of Leipzig) (High Commissioner for Immigration and In addition to the coordinators, the following • Annalisa Frisina (University of Padua) • F. Javier Rosón Lorente (Casa Árabe-IEAM) Intercultural Dialogue, ACIDI, and Commission senior and junior researchers from European • Bettina Gräf (Free University, Berlin) • Salman Sayyid (University of Leeds) for Citizenship and Gender Equality, CIG) and and Arab countries are taking part in the • Sadek Hamid (University of Chester) Ireland (The Equality Authority). project: • Birgitte Schepelern Johansen (University • Jan-Peter Hartung (School of Oriental and of Copenhagen) African Studies, University of London) • Werner Schiffauer (European University • Heiko Henkel (University of Copenhagen) Viadrina, Frankfurt on the Oder) • Tina Gudrun Jensen (The Danish National • Tallat Shakoor (independent researcher, Centre for Social Research, Copenhagen) Copenhagen) • Dorthe Høvids Possing (University of • Mohammad Siddique Seddon (University Copenhagen) of Chester) Meeting of the Living Together Meeting project of the Living Together Researchers of IEAM

Casa Árabe 2009 25 The International Institute of Arab and Muslim World Studies

THE NTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF 26 ARAB AND MUSLIM WORLD STUDIES Casa Árabe • Guido Steinberg (Stiftung Wissenschaft University of Oran); Tunisia is dealt with by tive research into the education systems in (University of Málaga), Emilio González Ferrín und Politik, SWP, Berlin) Azzam Mahjoub (lecturer at the University Maghreb and their strengths and weaknes- (University of Seville), José María Perceval 2009 • Thijl Sunier (University of Amsterdam) of Tunis and also the main author of the ses in a landscape of profound change (Autonomous University of Barcelona) and comparative study); Morocco is examined within the context of globalisation. In his Elena Arigita Maza (Casa Árabe-IEAM). • Suha Taji-Farouki (University of Exeter) by Larabi Jaidi (lecturer at the King work, he deals with issues such as the • Hossam Tamam (independent researcher, Mohamed V-Agdal University in Rabat). The spread of primary education, illiteracy, the The European Union and the Arab world: Cairo) purpose of this study is to analyse how debate on privatisation, linguistic diversity What do Arabs think of and expect from • Sol Tarrés (University of Huelva) these policies were put into effect, their and teacher training. The results of the Europe? • Jörn Thielmann (Erlangen Centre for Islam results and impact on the industrial fabric of study will be published in Spanish and and the Law in Europe) each country, as well as the challenges to French in 2010. This project, developed in collaboration with • Dominique Thomas (Higher Studies be faced in the context of liberalisation the Cidob Foundation, is intended to analyse developed through the European Union Arab perceptions, opinions and perspectives School for the Social Sciences, Paris) Rethinking al-Andalus: historic legacies in partnership agreements. with respect to Europe and its policy in the • David Tyrer (John Moores University, the construction of the present Arab region. Notable specialists taking part Liverpool) The second project is directed by José María This new programme began in 2009 with the are: Bichara Khader (director of the Centre of • Jenny White (University of Boston) Mella, professor in the Department of aim of disseminating analysis and academic Studies and Research into the Contemporary Economic Structure and Development knowledge of the legacy and contributions of Arab World of the Catholic University of Economics at the Autonomous University in al-Andalus. Its main goal is to publicise the Louvain); Abdullah Baabood (director of the Industrial policies in the Maghreb and the Madrid, and analyses the impact of Spanish multiple facets of Andalusia’s Arab heritage as Gulf Research Centre at the University of impact of Hispano-Moroccan business business cooperation in the Tangiers region, a living legacy that impinges on everyday life Cambridge); Bassma Kodmani (executive cooperation in the Tangiers region immersed in an intensive process of develop- in Spanish society. Likewise, it is intended to director of the Arab Reform Initiative); Khaled These two projects which came to an end in ment in recent years. Through interviews with provide a forum for debate and reflection that Hroub (director of the Cambridge Arab Media 2009 will result in the publication of various companies, social representatives and deconstructs both the idealising myths and Project at the University of Cambridge) and monographical studies in 2010. Spanish and Moroccan institutions in the the denial of Andalusia’s Arab legacy in the Mongi Bousnina (ex director-general of the region, the study analyses the penetration history of Spain. The starting point for this Arab League Educational, Cultural and The first project analyses the development and impact Spanish companies are having on programme was the project Casa Árabe Scientific Organisation (ALECSO). These and recent evolution of industrial policies in the local productive, social, territorial and ins- carried out on the 4th Centenary of the specialists, along with researchers in the Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, and their res- titutional fabric in this urban area. Expulsion of the Moriscos. IEAM of Casa Árabe and the Cidob pective policies are compared. The research Foundation, have made an assessment of has been carried out, in the case of Algeria, The scientific coordinating committee of this Euro-Arab relations, recommendations on Educational systems in Maghreb facing by Fatiha Talahite (researcher at the programme comprises Gema Martín Muñoz this subject, and the state of Arab public globalisation. Comparative study National Centre for Scientific Research, (Casa Árabe-IEAM), Eduardo Manzano opinion regarding European countries. The CNRS, in the Paris 13 Nord University) and In 2009, Abdeljalil Akkari (lecturer at the Moreno (Centre for Human and Social results of this project, undertaken in 2009, Rafik Bouklia-Hassane (lecturer at the University of Geneva) carried out compara- Sciences, CSIC), María Antonia Martínez Núñez will be published in 2010. Meeting of the Scientific Coordination Committee of the Rethinking al-Andalus programme From From left to right: Sophie Bessis, Gema Martín Muñoz and Alfonso Carlos Bolado

Casa Árabe 2009 27 International seminars and conferences Gema Martín Muñoz and Habib Ayeb in the seminar in Water the Arab world: global perceptions and local realities

Water in the Arab world: global perceptions Islamophobia under discussion and local realities Casa Árabe and the Comparative Ethnic In this seminar held at Casa Árabe, eleven Studies Programme at the Department of Arab and European specialists spent a day Ethnic Studies of the University of California and a half analysing different aspects rela- in Berkeley organised the international semi- ted to competition for, management and nar Islamophobia under discussion, led by use of water resources in the Arab coun- Gema Martín Muñoz and Ramón Grosfoguel. tries, from Morocco to Iraq. The seminar In the course of the seminar, which took place was open to the public and more than one at Casa Árabe in Madrid on May 28th and hundred people from different spheres (uni- 29th, the analytical and conceptual value of versities, research centres, public institu- Islamophobia and its limitations were explo- tions, companies and NGOs) were registe- red as attending. The seminar was led by Habib Ayeb (associate researcher at the Social Research Center of the American University in Cairo and lecturer at Paris 8 Saint Denis University). The participants included: Moutaz A. Al-Dabbas (Baghdad University School of Sciences), Reem Saad (Social Research Center of the American University at Cairo), Mauro van Aken (University of Milan-Bicocca), Héla Youssfi (Paris Dauphine University), Mohamed Elloumi (researcher at the Tunisian National Agricultural Research Centre, INRAT), Annabelle Houdret (Principal project coordinator for Adelphi Research GmbH in Berlin), Mohamed Mahdi (National School of Agriculture in Meknès), Barbara Casciarri (Paris 8 Saint- Denis University and Centre for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies and Documentation, CEDEJ, Khartoum), Abderrahmane Moussaoui (University of Provence, Aix en Provence) and Antonio Perdomo Molina (La Laguna School of Agricultural Engineering). Their papers on the subject will be published in a collective work in 2010.

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INTERNATIONAL 30 SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES Casa Árabe red from an interdisciplinary perspective, as Lorente (Casa Árabe-IEAM), Salman Sayyid were all the aspects, discourses and expe- (University of Leeds), Abdool Karim Vakil 2009 riences related to this subject. (King's College, London).

The seminar brought together national and Islamisms in context: political participation, international experts. In addition to the semi- contestation and rebellion nar leaders, the speakers were: Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (University of Utrecht), Farish From August 31st to September 4th, in colla- Ahmad-Noor (S. Rajaratnam School of boration with the French Middle East Institute Toni Serra (on the left) Toni and Majid Seddati in the seminar Arts and education through new technologies. The value of media International Studies, RSIS, Nanyang (IFPO) in Damascus, Casa Árabe organised this libraries Technological University, Singapore), Elena seminar in the framework of the Menéndez Arigita Maza (Casa Árabe-IEAM), Luis Pelayo International University (UIMP) summer Hroub (Cambridge Arab Media Project, (director of the International Festival of Visual Bernabé Pons (University of Alicante), courses. Directed by Gema Martín Muñoz University of Cambridge), Rafael Ortega Arts and New Media, FAN, Casablanca), Toni Ioannis Dimitrakopoulos (the European (director general of Casa Árabe-IEAM) and Rodrigo (Casa Árabe-IEAM), Rocío Vázquez Serra (co-director of the Unidentified Video Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, FRA), François Burgat (director of the IFPO), the Martí (Casa Árabe-IEAM) and Eva Wegner Observatory, OVNI, and author of videos, Vincent Geisser (Arab and Muslim World seminar offered an analysis of Islamist move- (University of Cape Town). texts and programmes, Spain), Khalid Khreis Study and Research Institute, IREMAM, Aix en ments explaining the origin, concepts and (director of the National Fine Arts Gallery in Provence), Knut Graw (Zentrum Moderner diversity of options which, depending on the Jordan), Vera Tamari (director of the Virtual Arts and education through new Orient, ZMO), Heiko Henkel (University of contexts, are developing in the present-day Gallery and Museum of Art and Ethnography technologies. The value of media libraries Copenhagen), Joan Lacomba (University of Islamist world. In addition to the two seminar of Birzeit University, Ramallah), Gerhard Valencia), Nelson Maldonado-Torres leaders, the seminar was delivered by: To mark the inauguration of the media Haupt and Pat Binder (editors of Nafas Art (University of California in Berkeley), Annelies Mustafa Akyol (Hürriyet Daily News), Nazanin library, Casa Árabe organised this seminar Magazine, on-line journal of the Institut für Moors (University of Amsterdam), Laura Amirian (Spanish National Distance on October 14th and 15th with the aim of Auslandsbeziehungen IFA, Stuttgart). Navarro (Minority Media, University of Education University, UNED), Elena Arigita proposing a multidisciplinary reflection on Poitiers), José María Perceval (Autonomous Maza (Casa Árabe-IEAM), Dolors Bramon the enormous usefulness of media libraries Towards a universal moratorium on University in Barcelona), Javier Rosón Planas (University of Barcelona), Khaled as new spaces for communication and cre- the death penalty. The case of the Arab ativity in an era when images and the countries Internet are breaking down barriers, esta- blishing new forms of interculturality and The international seminar Towards a univer- diversifying the possibilities of creativity sal moratorium on the death penalty. The and knowledge. The seminar tackled the case of the Arab countries took place on spread of knowledge through media libra- July 14th and 15th, organised by Casa ries, contemporary Arab audio-visual cul- Árabe and the Directorate General for ture, the Internet era and the museum of United Nations, Global Matters and Human the future, the possibilities of developing Rights at the Spanish Ministry of Foreign transnational networks for exchange and Affairs and Cooperation. Its purpose was to cooperation as well as the impact of the assess the situation of criminal law and the Internet and new technologies on the artis- death penalty in the Arab countries, and tic sphere. analyse the initiatives under way for those States to accept an indefinite moratorium on The people taking part in the seminar were its application or its abolition. Those taking directors of media libraries, directors of virtual part were legal experts, human rights acti- arts and museum projects and Arab and vists and government representatives from European audio-visual artists: Catherine various Arab countries: Asunta Cavaller David (chief curator of France’s General (Amnesty International), Taghreed Jaber Inspectorate of Museums), Sahar Talaat (lec- (Penal Reform International), Saul turer on the European Master’s programme Lehrfreund (Death Penalty Project, London), Inter-Mediterranean Mediation, MIM, Robert Renny Cushing (Murder Victims Autonomous University in Barcelona), Families for Human Rights), Ayman Aqeel Carmen Farràs i Piqués (director of the Media (Maat Center for Juridical and Constitutional Art Space media library of the La Caixa Studies), Mahmoud Rached M. Ghaleb Savings Bank’s Social Foundation, (Arab Standing Committee on Human Barcelona), Mourad Diouri (lecturer at the Rights, League of Arab States), Mona Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab Chamass (World Coalition against the Death World, University of Edinburgh), Rogelio Penalty), Mohamed Bendjedidi (The French López Cuenca (visual artist, Spain), Nisrien National Consultative Commission on

From left to right: Mustafa Akyol, FrançoisEva Burgat Wegner, and Khaled Hroub in the Hafez Abu Seada course on Islamisms in context Boukhari (visual artist, Syria), Majid Seddati Human Rights), (Egyptian

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2009 From From left to right: Salman Sayyid, Abdool Karim Vakil, From left to right: Olivia Orozco, Khadija Elmadmad, Ali Bensaad and Cheikh Oumar Ba at the session Knut Graw and Javier Rosón at the seminar on closing the seminar on Sub-Saharan migrants in the Islamophobia under discussion Maghreb

Organisation for Human Rights), Abboud Al- and US analysts took part: Khadija Mohsen- The Maghreb and the Middle East in and Mauritania. The open discussion inclu- Saraj (University of Damascus), Ibrahim Finan (IFRI), Gema Martín Muñoz (Casa Árabe- contemporary international society ded the participation of three of the semina- r’s experts, Khadija Elmadmad (Unesco Najjar (former Justice Minister in Lebanon), IEAM), Alan Pino (National Intelligence Council, Season of nine lectures given by three experts Chair of Migrations and Human Rights at Mohamed Mustapha Raissouni (Human Washington), Stephanie Williams (State in different subjects and from different coun- the King Hassan II University in Rights Consultative Committee, Morocco), Department of the United States), François tries in Córdoba, Jaén and Madrid from March Casablanca), Ali Bensaad (Algerian expert Taleb Al-Saqqaf (rapporteur to the Raffenne (Strategic Affairs Delegation, Ministry 30th to May 6th, 2009, analyzing the political, and researcher at the Arab and Muslim Committee of Experts in Human Rights for of Defence, France), Philip Naylor (Marquette economic and social realities of the Maghreb Hisham El Jean-Pierre Filiu World Study and Research Institute, IREMAM, the League of Arab States), University, Milwaukee), and the Middle East. The lectures were given Bastawisi (Lord Justice on the bench of the (Political Sciences, Paris), David Kirsch in Aix en Provence), and Cheikh Oumar Ba at the Faculty of Law and Business Sciences Egyptian Appeal Court), Amina Bouayach (Market Intelligence Service, PFC Energy, (founding member of the Centre for Social at the University of Córdoba, the Faculty of (Moroccan Human Rights Organisation, Washington), Abdenour Keramane Policy Research, CREPOS, in Dakar). Other Law at the University of Jaén and at the head- OMDH) and Boutros Harb (legal expert and (Medenergie, Algiers), Ihsane El Kadi (Les speakers in the seminar were: Hassan quarters of Casa Árabe in Madrid. Casa Árabe politician, Lebanon). Afriques, Algeria), Moulay Driss Alaoui Boubakri (lecturer in Geography at the received the collaboration of the Three M’daghri (Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane), University of Susa), Mustafa Ben Ahmed Mediterranean Cultures Foundation and the Francis Ghilès (Cidob Foundation, Barcelona), (coordinator for the Tunisian General United States-Maghreb: challenges and Unesco Chair for Conflict Resolution at the Amar Drissi (Office Chérifien des Phosphates, Worker’s Trade Union, UGTT), Nadia Khrouz perspectives University of Córdoba. The lecturers were: OCP, Casablanca), Azzedine Layachi (St. (responsible for welfare assistance for Raed Raffei, a Lebanese journalist, a war The French International Relations Institute John’s University, New York), Chekib Nouira immigrants at the Moroccan association correspondent specialising in Middle Eastern (IFRI) and Casa Árabe, within the framework of (Arab Institute for CEOs, Tunisia), Paul Anti-racist Group Accompanying and conflicts and a political analyst on the region, a collaboration agreement foreseeing the joint Burkhead (Office of the United States Trade Defending Foreigners and Migrants, GADEM, who spoke on the subject of “Lebanon and organisation of combined annual seminars, Representative, Washington), William Jordan and member of the Maghreb Social Forum), the conflicts in the Middle East: present and organised the seminar entitled United States- (United States Embassy in Paris), Abdeslam Emmanuel Mbolela (former president of the future”; Djamshid Momtaz, a lecturer in Maghreb: challenges and perspectives in Paris, Maghraoui (Duke University, Durham), Eric Association of Congolese Refugees and International Public Law at the University of on April 17th. This seminar analyzed the role of Goldstein (Human Rights Watch, Washington), Asylum Seekers in Morocco, ARCOM) and Teheran, spoke on “Security in the Persian the United States in North Africa and the pers- I. William Zartman (School of Advanced Yassine Temlali (an Algerian journalist). Gulf and the Iranian nuclear dossier”; Saïd pectives emerging with the new Democrat International Studies, SAIS, Johns Hopkins Ihrai, vice-principal of the King Mohamed V- Administration on such issues as trade and University, Baltimore), Isaías Barreñada Bajo Agdal University (Rabat) and lecturer at the The management of intellectual property energy, security, governance and conflict reso- (Casa Árabe-IEAM) and Amine Aït Chaalal Faculty of Legal, Economic and Social rights in the Euro-Mediterranean area lution. A large group of European, North African (Catholic University of Louvain). Sciences, specialising in international rela- Round table organised by Casa Árabe within tions, and also a lecturer at the Higher Royal the framework of the 6th Forum of Spanish- College of Military Learning (CREMS) in Kenitra, Moroccan Lawyers held in Tangiers for the gave a talk on “The democratic principle in analysis of the situation of copyright protec- international law: the strategy of the Arab and tion in Spain and in Arab countries, especially Muslim states”. on the subject of controlling Internet-related crimes and discussions of the main aspects Sub-Saharan migrants in the Maghreb and issues to be included in a possible future Good Practice Code for the management of Organised in collaboration with the intellectual property in the Mediterranean. The Alternatives Foundation and the Friedrich speakers leading the discussions were Abid Ebert Foundation in Spain, this seminar Kabadi, a Moroccan lawyer and expert con- dealt mainly with the sphere of social asso- sultant on intellectual property, who spoke on ciations and trade unions, with representa- criminal penalties on audio-visual piracy in tives from Europe and the Maghreb, Morocco; Miguel Ángel Calle, the central although it also included several sessions registrar for intellectual property at the open to the public, including a discussion in Ministry of Culture in Spain, who set out the Casa Árabe on the situation of Sub-Saharan situation of the defence of intellectual pro- migrations in the Maghreb, setting out in perty in Spain, with particular attention for the particular the cases of Morocco, Algeria Good Practice Manual published by the Reem Saad Catherine David Casa Árabe 2009 33 International seminars and conferences

INTERNATIONAL 34 SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES Casa Árabe Ministry to prosecute crimes against intellec- (GDRI-DREEM) at the French National Centre years, Casa Árabe collaborated with the tual property; and José Francisco Estévez, a for Scientific Research (CNRS). The participants Centre for Economic and Commercial Studies 2009 partner at the law firm of Cremades & Calvo- in the seminar included Ramón Verrier (lecturer (CECO) of Spain’s Foreign Trade Institute (ICEX) Sotelo, who also spoke on intellectual pro- at the University of Tours), Omar Akalay (a in the organisation of two training sessions perty law in Spain and digitalisation. Others Moroccan economist), Olivia Orozco de la held at our headquarters on March 3rd and participating in the debate were Tarik Torre (coordinator of Casa Árabe’s December 9th for Egyptian diplomats and Mossadek (Association of Lawyers in Socioeconomic and Business Programme) and public servants as part of the On Globalisation Casablanca), José Rey (director of the Keltoum Touba (an expert in law and sociology programme. These courses are intended to Ediciones Facta publishing house in Spain), from the Universities of Paris X Nanterre and showcase the experience of the Spanish

Jaafar Laidi (head of the Garrigues law office Saïd Ihrai Paris 13-Nord). In the course of the seminar, administration and economic players in gene- in Tangiers), Anas Lemrini (judge of a Court of the discussions analyzed the main aspects of ral aspects of international trade, the promo- First Instance in Arcila), as well as several law- Three Mediterranean Cultures Foundation. economic thought in Islam until the 15th cen- tion of exports, foreign investments and in the yers from Tangiers. The meeting brought together representati- tury, with special emphasis on the develop- areas of marketing, management, strategies ves of institutions, publishers and translators ment of the concept of markets, currency and and their related practical facets. Each of the and analyzed the state of translation and work ethics, in the various scholastic traditions sessions included the participation of a score Arab and Islamic world: political realities publishing of Moroccan books in Spain and and religious corpora of both Christians and of specialists and advisers from various and social dynamics Spanish books in Morocco, flagging up Muslims, during the mediaeval period and until secretariats and departments of the Egyptian From July 6th to 9th, Casa Árabe coorganised potential routes for cooperation. Participants the 15th century. Ministry of Trade and Industry, to whom the the summer course on the Arab and Islamic included Federico Arbós Ayuso (Cervantes tools and cooperation opportunities offered World: political realities and social dynamics Institute, Rabat), Pedro Rojo (Al Fanar by Casa Árabe were explained, with special The legal and economic situation of at the University of Burgos, the purpose of Translations, Rabat), Said Benabdelouahed emphasis on the promotion of investments women in Morocco which was to offer an approach to the diver- (King Hassan II University, Casablanca), and the opportunities for business coopera- sity of the modern Arab and Muslim world Fatiha Benlabbah (King Mohamed V-Agdal Seminar held in collaboration with the tion opening up in the field of renewable ener- through its social, political and cultural reality. University, Rabat), Mohamed Bennis (Édi- Spanish Distance Learning University, UNED, gies in both our countries. The speakers included: Gema Martín Muñoz tions Toubkal), Driss Bouissef Rekab (Saad with the presence of two Moroccan experts in (Casa Árabe-IEAM), Juan M. Ibeas (University Warzazi Éditions), Hassan Boutakka (King the subject, Idriss El Fakhouri and Mounir 25th Congress of Journalists in the of Burgos), Rafael Ortega Rodrigo (Casa Hassan II University, Casablanca), Rachid Mehdi, from the King Mohamed I University in Straits. Cooperation between Spain and Árabe-IEAM), Francisco Javier Peña Pérez Chraïbi (Éditions Marsam), Leila Chaouni Oujda. Morocco. Future prospects (University of Burgos), Federico Sanz (Éditions Le Fennec), Ibrahim El Khatib (King (University of Burgos), María Asunción Mohamed V-Agdal University, Rabat), Daniel In collaboration with the Association of On Globalisation (I and II). CECO course for Cifuentes (University of Burgos), Eduard Gil Flores (Casa Árabe-IEAM), Antonio Journalists in Campo de Gibraltar, Casa Arab diplomats Soler i Lecha (Cidob Foundation), Isaías Huerga (Huerga y Fierro Editores), Árabe organised the 25th edition of the Barreñada Bajo (Casa Árabe-IEAM), José Inmaculada Jiménez Morell (Ediciones del With regard to training and dissemination Congress of Journalists in the Straits, which Abu-Tarbush Quevedo (University of La Oriente y del Mediterráneo), Juan Marsá activities, continuing with the line of previous brought together in Córdoba reporters from Laguna), Paloma González del Miño Fuentes (University of Granada), Anna (Complutense University in Madrid), Javier Monjo Omedes (Icaria Editorial), Nour Taïbi Aisa (Institute for the Promotion of Social (King Fahd Higher School for Translation, Studies, IPES, Pamplona), Ndeye Andújar Tangiers), Carmen Ruiz Bravo-Villasante (Islamic Council of Catalonia), Enrique (Editorial CantArabia), Juan José Sánchez Vázquez Domínguez (journalist), Salwa El- Sandoval (Editorial Quorum) and Souad Gharbi (Unesco Centre in Catalonia), Laila Reggala (King Fahd Higher School for Louadji (University of Tangiers), Mohamed El Translation, Tangiers). Gheryb (Association of Immigrant Workers from Morocco, ATIM, Logroño) and Sonia History of economic thought in Islam, Rodríguez Cobos (“Burgos Acoge”). Mediter Group, Paris On November 24th, 2009, Casa Árabe took Meeting on Spanish-Moroccan Translation part in the seminar on History of economic and Publishing thought in Islam held at the Economics Centre On October 15th and 16th, Rabat hosted the of the Paris 13-Nord University as the third ses- first Meeting on Spanish-Moroccan sion of the season devoted to Flows, exchan- Translation and Publishing, jointly organised ges and institutions in trans-Mediterranean by the Cervantes Institute, the Spanish relations, organised by the Mediter Group Embassy in Morocco, Casa Árabe-IEAM, the under the supervision of Fatiha Talahite and Directorate-General for Books at the Spanish Saïd Souam, with the support of the Ministry of Culture, the Directorate for Books International Development Research Group at the Moroccan Ministry of Culture and the into Euro-Mediterranean Economic Research Seminar on Art and education through new technologies. 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INTERNATIONAL 36 SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES Casa Árabe Campo de Gibraltar and other locations in Madinat al-Zahra. Course in the history Andalusia, as well as from several cities in and archaeology of al Andalus 2009 northern Morocco from October 15th to For the second year, the Madinat al Zahra 18th. In this edition, the contents of the con- Centre and Casa Árabe organised this course gress were devoted to reflection and analy- as part of the Cordvba 2009 Summer presentan sis of the cooperation between Spain and University, directed by Antonio Vallejo, the CONGRESO DE PERIODISTAS Morocco, with consideration, in the form of various panels, of the future prospects in the Centre’s director, with the aim of offering par- 25DEL ESTRECHO ticipants an extensive understanding of the fields of energy, the environment, ports and culture. Speakers participating included: history and archaeology of al Andalus and to LA COOPERACIÓN ENTRE Estanislao Ramírez (president of the Campo delve deeper into the projection of the de Gibraltar Press Association), Mustapha archaeological finds at Madinat al Zahra in the ESPAÑA Y MARRUECOS: Labassi (president of the North Moroccan world of academia. The course, held from July Press Association), Gema Martín Muñoz 6th to 11th, was mainly aimed at final-year (director general of Casa Árabe-IEAM), undergraduate students, doctoral candidates, PERSPECTIVAS archaeologists, specialists in heritage and the Teresa Sáez Carrascosa (director general of the Andalusian Foreign Promotion Agency), general public. DE FUTURO Omar Azziman (the Moroccan Ambassador Djamchid Momtaz to Spain), Andrés Alcántara (responsible in Meeting of the Spanish Network Spain for the institutional relations of the of the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean International Union for the Conservation of Foundation for Inter-Cultural Nature), Abdelkader Lahlou (lecturer at the Dialogue Faculty of Law, Politics and Social Sciences at the King Mohamed V University in Rabat The Spanish Network of the Anna Lindh and Morocco’s representative at United Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for Inter- Nations international conferences), Manuel Cultural Dialogue held its regular meeting Pérez Pérez (director of Córdoba City at the headquarters of Casa Árabe in Council’s Cultural Capital Office), Sellam Madrid on November 11th. The meeting Berrada (Moroccan consul in Algeciras), brought together about fifty participants in Manuel Morón Ledró (president of the the network to consider the outcome of Algeciras Bay Port Authority), Hassan their activities and plan future actions at

Salón de Actos de la Delegación de Abkari (representative of the Port Authority the Spanish and regional levels. The occa- 15.18 Gobierno de la Junta de Andalucía. C/ San Felipe nº 5 for Tangiers) and Maica Pérez Gil (treasurer sion was marked by the presence of

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Sede de Casa Árabe- IEAM. of the Press Association for Campo de Gianluca Solera, the network coordinator c/Martínez Rucker 9. 14003 Córdoba www.casaarabe.es Gibraltar). of the Anna Lindh Foundation. Raed Raffei Omar Azziman and Teresa Sáez Omar Carrascosa Azziman at and the Teresa inauguration Seminar on towards progress a universal moratorium on the The death case penalty. of Arab countries of the 25th Congress of Journalists from the Straits Casa Árabe 2009 37 Courses with the Diplomatic School general of Casa Árabe, and José Antonio Martínez de director of Villarreal, the Diplomatic School Gema Martín Muñoz, director Muñoz, Martín Gema

In 2009, in collaboration with the Diplomatic institutions of Islam and the issue of Islam in School, Casa Árabe coordinated the module international relations; Islam and Muslims in on “Maghreb and the Middle East” in the European societies and, in particular, in Spain. Inter-university Master in diplomacy and international relations taught by the Diplomatic The course began with an opening lecture by School for the third year running. This modu- Dolors Bramon Planas on “The Foundations le, directed by Gema Martín Muñoz and coor- of power in classical Islam” and concluded dinated by Víctor Gutiérrez Castillo, consists with a round table discussing Representation in 35 lectures on history, economics, society, and leadership in the Muslim communities of politics, law, security, conflicts and internatio- Spain, with the participation of Mohammed nal relations given by Ignacio Álvarez- Chaib Akhdim (a Member of the Regional Ossorio (University of Alicante), Elena Arigita Parliament of Catalonia and founder of the Ibn (Casa Árabe-IEAM), Isaías Barreñada (Casa Batuta Sociocultural Association, ASCIB), Árabe-IEAM), Rafael Bustos (Complutense Mohamed Kharchich (secretary of the University in Madrid), Gonzalo Escribano Spanish Federation of Islamic Religious (Spanish National Distance University, UNED), Entities, FEERI), Said Kirlani (in representa- Rafael Escudero (Complutense University in tion of the Association of Moroccan University Madrid), Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla Students in Madrid) and Gabriel Jairodin (Autonomous University in Madrid), José Mª Riaza (member of the Union of Islamic Ferré (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Communities, UCIDE). Cooperation), Paloma García Picazo (Spanish National Distance Learning The course was taught by Luis F. Bernabé University, UNED), Ana González Santamaría Pons (University of Alicante), Dolors Bramon (Casa Árabe-IEAM), Víctor Gutiérrez Castillo Planas (University of Barcelona), Juan José (University of Jaén, Casa Árabe-IEAM), Pedro Escobar (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and López de Aguirrebengoa (Ministry of Foreign Cooperation), José María Ferré de la Peña Affairs and Cooperation), Gema Martín (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation), Muñoz (Casa Árabe-IEAM), Miguel Ángel Amira Kedier (Casa Árabe-IEAM), Joan Martín (Open University of Catalonia), Rafael Lacomba (University of Valencia), Justo Matos (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Lacunza Balda (Pontifical Institute for Arab Cooperation), Nuria Medina García (Casa and Islamic Studies, PISAI), Bernabé López Árabe-IEAM), Olivia Orozco (Casa Árabe- García (Autonomous University in Madrid), IEAM), Rafael Ortega Rodrigo (Casa Árabe- Eduardo Manzano (Centre for Human and IEAM), Waleed Saleh Alkhalifa (Autonomous Social Sciences, CSIC), Juan Antonio Macías University in Madrid), Víctor Manuel Sánchez (University of Granada), Gema Martín Muñoz (Open University of Catalonia), Antoni Segura (Casa Árabe-IEAM), Bahige Mulla Huech (University of Barcelona), Fidel Sendagorta (Islamologist), Gustavo de Arístegui (Member (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation), of the Spanish Parliament), Tomás Alfaro (IE Juan José Tamayo (Complutense University Business School and Francisco de Vitoria in Madrid) and José Abu Tarbush (University University, Madrid), Nazanin Amiriam (UNED), of La Laguna). Elena Arigita Maza (Casa Árabe-IEAM), Laura Navarro (Minority Media-University of May 4th to June 2nd were the dates for the Poitiers), Juan Antonio Pacheco (University of course organised by the Diplomatic School Seville), Ana Planet (Autonomous University in and Casa Árabe on Islam and Muslims: histo- Madrid), Abdennur Prado (Islamic Council of ric dimension and contemporary dynamics, Catalonia), Fidel Sendagorta (Ministry of under the supervision of Gema Martín Foreign Affairs and Cooperation), Fernando Muñoz, director general of Casa Árabe and Vallespín (Autonomous University in Madrid), José María Ferré de la Peña, Spain’s roving José Juan Toharia (Autonomous University in ambassador for relations with Muslim Madrid and Metroscopia), Ignacio de la Torre Communities and Organisations Abroad. The (IE Business School, Madrid), Olivia Orozco course is structured in several thematic de la Torre (Casa Árabe-IEAM), Rafael Ortega blocks dealing with Islam as a religion in its Rodrigo (Casa Árabe-IEAM), Caridad Ruiz de historic and legal dimensions; Islamisms as a Almodóvar (University of Granada) and phenomenon of political participation, con- Waleed Saleh Alkhalifa (Autonomous testation and violent action; the international University in Madrid).

Casa Árabe 2009 39 New era of AWRAQ journal CASA ÁRABE AND THE SPANISH AGENCY OF INTERNATIONAL A A AQ COOPERATION FOR DEVELOPMENT (AECID) AGREED IN 2009 TO A INITIATE A NEW ERA OF AWRAQ

Casa Árabe and the Spanish Agency of of Arab and Islamic Studies, Autonomous International Cooperation for Development University in Madrid), Elias Sanbar (ambas- (AECID) agreed in 2009 to re-launch Awraq. sador, permanent observer with the Journal of analysis and ideas about the con- Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to temporary Arab and Islamic world, published the United Nations, Unesco, Paris), Antoni under the joint editorship of Gema Martín Segura (director of the International History Muñoz and Carlos Alberdi Alonso. In this Study Centre, CEHI, University of new period, the journal publishes two issues Barcelona), Mohamed Tozy (professor at the a year and its international scientific board Faculty of Arts, University of Provence, Aix comprises Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (Ibn Rushd en Provence) and Oswaldo Truzzi (associate Chair of Islam and Humanism, Humanities professor at the Production Engineering University in Utrecht), María Victoria Department, São Carlos Federal University). Alberola Fioravanti (director of the Félix María Pareja Islamic Library, AECID), Talal The first issue, published at the start of 2010, Asad (lecturer in Anthropology, City is devoted to The diverging paths of reform University of New York), Dolors Bramon in Islam. Planas (lecturer in Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Barcelona), François Burgat (director of the French Institute of the Middle East, IFPO, Damascus), Alfonso Carmona (president of the Spanish Society for Arab Studies, SEEA), Gonzalo Escribano Francés (lecturer in Applied Economics, UNED), John Esposito (director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, University of Georgetown), Joan Lacomba (lecturer in Social Work and Social Services, University of Valencia), Saba Mahmood (associate professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of California in Berkeley), Mona Makram-Ebeid (lecturer in the Department of Humanities, Political and Social Sciences, American University in Cairo), María Antonia Martínez Núñez (lecturer in the Area of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Málaga), Khadija Mohsen-Finan (senior researcher at the French International Relations Institute, IFRI, Paris), Hamurabi Noufouri (director of the degree in Arab, American-Arab and Islamic Studies of the Tres de Febrero National University, Argentina), José María Perceval (lecturer in the Faculty of Communication Sciences, Autonomous University in Barcelona), James Piscatori (deputy director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, National University of Australia, Canberra), Magali Rheault (senior analyst at the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies and senior adviser to the Gallup World Poll, The Gallup Organisation, Washington), Caridad Ruiz de Almodóvar (lecturer in the Area of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Granada), Waleed Saleh Alkhalifa (lecturer at the Department

Casa Árabe 2009 41 In collaboration with the Spanish Embassy in Morocco, the Spanish Commercial Office and the Association for the Advancement of Managers (APD), an Arabic version of the Boletín de Economía y Negocios de Casa Árabe (Casa Árabe Economics and Business CASA ÁRABE’S BUSINESS FORUM Newsletter) was presented in Casablanca on June 23rd, 2009. The newsletter was presen- PROMOTES AND SUPPORTS BUSINESS ted to an audience comprising representatives of close to sixty Spanish companies and institutions active in the country as an ideal instru- OPPORTUNITIES IN ARAB COUNTRIES ment to make commercial relations between Morocco and Spain more dynamic and pro- Within Casa Árabe’s Business Forum, a new mote Spanish companies in Arab countries. line of activity has been set up to promote and support the investment opportunities in Arab This publication by Casa Árabe’s Socioeconomic countries. The first action in this area was the PRESENTATION OF THE and Business Programme was presented in organisation of a Seminar on investment Morocco as this is the leading client for opportunities in Tunisia, in collaboration with NEWSLETTER AS AN IDEAL Spanish exports and investments in the Arab the Chamber of Commerce in Madrid and the world, with over five hundred companies Foreign Investment Promotion Agency (FIPA) TOOL FOR MAKING TRADE active in the country. In addition to the of Tunisia. This activity attracted the participa- Spanish Ambassador, Luis Planas, and the tion of over seventy representatives of director general of Casa Árabe, Gema Martín Spanish companies together with a Tunisian RELATIONS BETWEEN Muñoz, others speaking at the presentation delegation led by the Secretary of State for included Nizar Baraka, the Minister in charge Cooperation and Foreign Investments in MOROCCO AND SPAIN MORE of Economic and General Affairs, and Saad Tunisia, Abdelhamid Triki, and the director Kettani, president of APD Maroc and mem- general of the FIPA, Mongia Khemiri. DYNAMIC ber of the Advisory Board of Casa Árabe. Casa Árabe 2009 43 CASA ÁRABE ORGANISES TWO SEMINARS DEVOTED TO THIS IMPORTANT SUBJECT POSSIBILITIES FOR EXPANSION Another matter of great interest and essential for an understanding of Arab countries is the AND COOPERATION IN SPAIN scope of the food crisis that, as a result of cli- mate change and the inflation affecting raw Seminar with Spanish and Arabic experts material prices, has afflicted some Middle organised with the IE Business School and Eastern countries, such as Egypt and devoted to the analysis of the model of Palestine, with food security issues. As a Islamic banking and the study of the possibi- result, we organised two discussion panels lities of its development in our country. The devoted to this important topic. Habib Ayeb, guest expert was Ibrahim Aboulola, a lecturer an expert in the geopolitics of water and agri- in Economics at the King Abdulaziz University culture in the Arab world at the Social in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Research Center of the American University in Cairo, gave a lecture on Crisis and food sove- In this regard, Olivia Orozco de la Torre, coor- reignty in the Arab world: the case of Egypt dinator of Casa Árabe’s Socioeconomic and while Nader Hrimat of the Applied Research Business Programme, took part on December Institute in Jerusalem (ARIJ) analyzed the 9th in the 3rd French Forum on Islamic Challenges for agriculture and food security in Finance, organised in Paris by Les Échos, the southern and eastern Mediterranean: the case Franco-Arab Chamber of Commerce and of Palestine. Secure Finance.

Casa Árabe 2009 45 Political personalities at Casa Árabe

Casa Árabe plays a key role in public diplomacy by accompanying Spain’s policy with Arab countries as the reference institution specialising in the same. Within this framework, we have received visits during 2009 from major personalities of the Arab world and the director general has undertaken several activities abroad. CASA ÁRABE PLAYS A KEY ROLE On the occasion of his official trip to Spain, the president of the Lebanese Republic, General IN PUBLIC DIPLOMACY BY Michel Sleiman, visited Casa Árabe accompanied by the Lebanese Ministers for Foreign Affairs, Defence and Tourism. He was welco- ACCOMPANYING SPAIN’S POLICY med to our institution by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, the Secretary WITH ARAB COUNTRIES AS THE of State for Foreign Affairs and the Director General of Casa Árabe, with whom he held a REFERENCE INSTITUTION short meeting. After touring the building, he uncovered a plaque commemorating his visit. SPECIALISING IN THE SAME The President of Lebanon, Michel Sleiman, speaking to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Miguel Ángel Moratinos, and the Director General of Casa Árabe, Gema Martín Muñoz The President of Lebanon, Michel Sleiman, uncove- ring a plaque commemorating his visit to Casa Árabe

Casa Árabe 2009 47 Political personalities at Casa Árabe

POLITICAL 48 PERSONALITIES AT CASA ÁRABE Casa Árabe The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Palestine, destinations, to present the various program- Riyad al-Malki, also visited Casa Árabe mes of Casa Árabe and to participate in interna- 2009 during his official visit to Spain on December tional fora. In Istanbul, she took part in the 18th and 19th. After a work meeting with the Second Forum of the Alliance of Civilisations. director general, he visited the exhibition on Jerusalem at the start of the 20th century. In Lebanon, as part of the Alliance of Heritage and culture. Civilisations initiative, Casa Árabe organised, in collaboration with the Spanish Embassy, the “For a globalisation with a human face” seminar held a seminar with face” human a “For globalisation Saint-Joseph University in Beirut, the Lebanese in Beirut University and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the seminar For a globalisa- Casa Árabe, in collaboration with the (director of the Cultural Centre of the Arab tion with a human face, aimed at extending the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Medical Union, Egypt), Anas Altikriti (director experience of the Alliance of Civilisations to hosted the meeting of the Nyon Process on general of the Córdoba Foundation, London), Lebanon. At the end of the seminar, which las- Religion and Social Activism, chaired by Jorge Mokhtar Benabdallaoui (lecturer in contem- ted for three days, Lebanon announced its deci- Sampaio, the former president of Portugal and porary Islamic thought at the King Hassan II sion to join the group of friends of the Alliance of now high representative of United Nations for University in Casablanca and secretary gene- Civilisations. The seminar included the presence the Alliance of Civilisations. It included the par- ral of the Forum for Citizenhood, Morocco), of the Lebanese Minister for Information, Tarek ticipation of renowned international specia- Nabil Al-Kofahi (former mayor for the Islamic Mitri, and the Spanish Secretary of State for lists: Jorge Sampaio (high representative of Action Front party, Jordan), Ali Fayyad (direc- Foreign Affairs, Ángel Lossada, as well as United Nations for the Alliance of Civilisations), tor of the Consultative Center for Studies and Lebanese and Spanish experts and academics Gema Martin Muñoz (director general of Casa Documentation, Beirut), Abdul Karim who discussed various aspects of the relations Árabe-IEAM), María Victoria González Román Gheewala (secretary general of the Indian between the Arab world and the West from the (roving ambassador for the Alliance of Muslim Association and president of the different perspectives of Lebanon and the wes- Civilisations), Oliver McTernan (director of Islamic Education Trust and the Federation of tern world. The participants included Gema Forward Thinking, London), Helena Barroco Muslim Organisations, Leicestershire), Bob Martín Muñoz (director general of Casa Árabe- (adviser to Jorge Sampaio), José María Ferré Roberts (pastor of Northwood Church, Texas), IEAM), Juan Carlos Gafo (Spain’s ambassador de la Peña (roving ambassador for relations Chris Seiple (founder and director of the to Lebanon), Máximo Cajal (coordinator of the with Muslim Communities and Organisations Institute for Global Engagement, Arlington), National Plan for the Alliance of Civilisations), Abroad), José María Contreras (director gene- Merete Bilde (senior adviser to the Council of Marta Ruedas (resident representative UNDP ral of Relations with Religious Confessions), the European Union), Esra Bulut (Institute for Lebanon), Abbas Halabi (president of the Arab John Esposito (director of the Prince Alwaleed European Union Security Studies), Ibrahim Working Group on Muslim-Christian Dialogue), Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Kalın (Siyaset, Ekonomi Ve Toplum Aras, tırma- Carole al-Sharabati (lecturer in political science Understanding, University of Georgetown), ları Vakfı —SETA—, Ankara), Abdullah Al Faliq at Saint-Joseph University in Beirut), Isaías The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Palestine, Riyad al-Malki, with the director general of Casa Árabe Jean-Nicolas Bitter (adviser on Religious (research director, Córdoba Foundation, Barreñada Bajo (coordinator of Educational Affairs, Policy and Conflicts at the Ministry of London), Mohammed Sawalha (president of Programmes and Publications at Casa Árabe- Foreign Affairs in Switzerland), Marc Scheuer the British Muslim Initiative), Gloria de The former prime minister of Sudan and presi- IEAM), Hisham Nashabi (director of the Institute (director of the Secretariat of the Alliance of Pascual-Teresa Fernández (Spanish Ministry dent of the al-Umma party, al-Imam al-Sadeq of Islamic Studies, Beirut), Wajih Kawtharani Civilisations, United Nations), Shamil Idriss of the Presidency, Alliance of Civilisations), al-Mahdi, visited Casa Árabe on July 18th and (research director at the Centre for Arab Unity (adviser to the Secretariat of the Alliance of and Joel Hunter (pastor of Northland Church, gave a talk in which he analysed the future of Studies, Beirut), Santiago Petschen (emeritus Civilisations, United Nations), Abdel Moneim Florida, and member of the Executive the relations between Europe and Arab coun- professor of international relations at the Abul Futuh (secretary general of the Arab Committee of the National Association of tries at the institution’s headquarters in Madrid. Complutense University in Madrid), Rafael Díaz Medical Union, Egypt), Hesham El Hammamy Evangelicals). de Salazar (lecturer at the Faculty of Political Tunisia’s Secretary of State for Cooperation Science and Sociology at the Complutense and Foreign Investments, Abdelhamid Triki, University in Madrid), Samir Makdissy (lecturer visited Casa Árabe on May 20th, 2009, on the at the American University in Beirut), Georges occasion of a business meeting between Corm (lecturer in Political Science at the Saint- Spain and Tunisia. Joseph University in Beirut), Marco Calamai (UNDP adviser in Beirut), Saoud El Mawla (lecturer at the Institute for Islamo-Christian Studies Within the framework of the seminar held of the Saint-Joseph University in Beirut), Abdel in Beirut, Lebanon announced its adhesion Halim Fadlallah (director of the Consultative to the group of friends of the Alliance of Center for Studies and Documentation, Beirut), Civilisations Daoud El Sayegh (legal expert and writer), Talal The director general of Casa Árabe has trave- Atreessy (lecturer in political science at the lled to Beirut, Damascus, Casablanca, Rabat, Lebanese University), and Nawaf El Moussawi Egypt, Canada and United States, among other (researcher).

Jorge Sampaio Jorge chairing the Nyon Process meeting Casa Árabe 2009 49 Political personalities at Casa Árabe

POLITICAL 50 PERSONALITIES AT CASA ÁRABE Casa Árabe ter for relations with the Parliament and a former ambassador to Spain), Ghassan 2009 Finianos (lecturer in philosophy at the University of Damascus, in Arab thought at the Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3 University and director of the Terre des Hommes NGO in Syria), Gonzalo Escribano (professor of applied economics at the National Distance Learning University, UNED), Tarik Yousef (founding dean of the Dubai signing the Guest Book at Casa Árabe The former Prime Minister of Sudan, al-Imam al-Sadeq al-Mahdi, School of Government and co-director of the Brookings Institution’s Middle East Youth Casa Árabe organised together with the crisis: a perspective from the Arab world on Initiative) and Francis Ghilès (senior resear- Qatar Foundation the presentation in Spain Wednesday October 28th, 2009. The semi- cher at the Cidob Foundation). It was atten- of the Qatar Symphony that took place at nar brought together a group of Spanish and ded by over twenty experts and significant the National Auditorium on February 26th, international experts to assess the conse- figures from the Spanish and Arab political 2009. The concert in Madrid kicked off the quences of the global crisis in the region. and academic panorama. European tour of the Qatar Symphony Following the inauguration by Fernando Orchestra, an initiative of Sheikha Mozah Perpiñá-Robert and Gema Martín Muñoz, The conclusions of the seminar were later bint Nasser al-Missned in her capacity as the participants in the seminar included analysed in the course of a public discussion president of the Qatar Foundation. Felipe González (former Prime Minister of with the participation of Tarik Yousef and Spain), Abdulkareem El-Eryani (former José Antonio Ocampo (professor and co- Prime Minister of Yemen), Sofiane Khatib director of the Initiative for Dialogue on Public Members of the Club of Madrid and (associate director for the Middle East and Policies at Columbia University, New York, Spanish and international experts assess North Africa at the World Economic Forum, and a former Minister for the Exchequer and the consequences of the global crisis on WEF), Justin Alexander (editor of The Public Credit in Colombia). The conclusions Arab countries Economist, London), Fatiha Talahite (socio- and the working document drawn up for the In collaboration with the Club of Madrid, logist and researcher at the French National seminar on the impact of the crisis on the Casa Árabe organised a seminar entitled The Centre for Scientific Research, CNRS), Arab world will give rise to a joint publication

political dimensions of the global economic Abdeslam Baraka (former Moroccan minis- in Spanish, English and Arabic in 2010. Abdulkareem El-Eryani The former Prime Minister of Spain, Felipe González From left to right: Tarik Yousef, Ibrahim Awad, Enrique Vázquez From Yousef, left and to right: Tarik Abdeslam Baraka

Casa Árabe 2009 51 Fourth Centenary of the Expulsion of the Moriscos

IN COMMEMORATION OF THE FOURTH CENTENARY OF THE EXPULSION OF THE MORISCOS, CASA ÁRABE PRODUCED A FEATURE FILM AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

To accompany the film, Casa Árabe organised a public discussion on May 26th on the Meaning and consequences of the expulsion of the Moriscos with the participation of Gema Martín Muñoz (director general of Casa Árabe-IEAM), Bernard Vincent (a lecturer in history at the Higher Studies School for the Social Sciences, EHESS, Paris), Luis Bernabé Pons (professor of Arab and In 2009, the Casa Árabe commemorated the Islamic Studies at the University of Alicante) 4th centenary of the expulsion of the and José María Perceval (lecturer in history Moriscos. On the occasion of this anniversary, and journalism at the Autonomous University a feature-length fictional documentary entitled in Barcelona and the film’s scientific adviser). Expulsados 1609. La tragedia de los moriscos The next day, May 27th, a concert entitled (Expelled 1609. The Tragedy of the Moriscos) Zambra de moriscos was given in the Casa was produced. The project was a joint produc- Árabe’s auditorium by the ancient music tion with Sagrera Audiovisual, Televisió de Catalunya (TV3), Televisión Española (TVE), Aragón Televisión, Canal Historia, the Catalan Institute for Cultural Industries (ICIC) and the Regional Government of Aragon. The film received the input of the leading specialists in the subject matter and reconstructs the history of a family of Moriscos before and during their expulsion to Tunisia, at the same time as it provides details and analysis of the historical context through interviews with the experts. The shooting of the feature-length film was accompanied by three divulgatory shorts devoted to the Geography, Life and Figures of the Moriscos. The film was premiered at the

Zarzuela Theatre in Madrid on April 28th. Public discussion panel on ofconsequences the the of expulsion the Meaning Moriscos and The cast and director of “Expulsados 1609. La tragedia de los moriscos” with the director general of Casa Árabe, Gema Martín Muñoz Casa Árabe 2009 53 Fourth Centenary of the Expulsion of the Moriscos

FOURTH CENTENARY OF 54 THE EXPULSION OF THE MORISCOS Casa Árabe

2009 Zambra de moriscos” concert Zambra de moriscos” concert

group of Eduardo Paniagua, with Said Belcadi as the guest musician. The concert included items based on texts taken from 17th century collections of ballads set to music by Juan del Encina and popular dances converted into highbrow music by renowned composers from the age. These musical items, merged with the rhythms inherent to the Moriscos and Andalusian- Moroccan tradition, highlighted the spirit of the zambra dances so unknown to modern audiences.

PELÍCULA CONMEMORATIVA DEL IV CENTENARIO DE LA EXPULSIÓN DE LOS MORISCOS At the end of the year, Casa Árabe publis- DIRIGIDA POR: MIGUEL E. LÓPEZ LORCA hed a DVD containing, in addition to the PABLO DERQUI FERNANDO GUILLÉN ANA ALONSO JULI FÀBREGAS PABLO RIVERO WWW.CASAARABE.ES WWW.EXPULSADOS1609.COM feature film, the three documentary shorts Un proyecto de: Coproducido por: on the geography, life, and figures of the Moriscos, together with additional contents

Con la ayuda de: including a photo gallery and the trailer for Images of the seminar on held the in expulsion New York the film. of the Moriscos

In the course of 2009, numerous educational and cultural institutions in Spain and abroad projected the film as part of their programmes devoted to the 4th Centenary of the Expulsion or as part of joint events on the subject organised with Casa Árabe: CERVANTES INSTITUTE IN NEW YORK, FESTIVAL OF THE ARAB WORLD IN MONTREAL, COLLEGE OF SPAIN (PARIS), KING MOHAMED V UNIVERSITY (RABAT), ABDELMALEK ESAADI UNIVERSITY (TETOUAN), CÓRDOBA FILM LIBRARY, EURO-ARAB FOUNDATION (GRANADA), INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS THE MORISCOS (GRANADA), ARAGUANEY FOUNDATION (SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA), 2ND FESTIVAL OF ARAB AND MEDITERRANEAN FILMS IN CATALONIA (BARCELONA), SEMINAR ON MORISCO CULTURE (SEGOVIA), UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE, OFFICIAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL IN VÉLEZ-MÁLAGA, HORNACHOS TOWN COUNCIL, AL-ANDALUS CULTURAL CENTRE (JEREZ), MORISCOS DAYS IN CALPE, ALCOY CENTRE FOR HISTORIC AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES (CAEHA), MARTIL AL-ANDALUS CULTURAL CENTRE (TETOUAN), ALMOROIG HISTORY INSTITUTE (ALCOY,

Stills from the shooting of the “Expulsados 1609. La tragedia de los moriscos” feature film feature moriscos” los de tragedia La 1609. “Expulsados the of shooting the from Stills VALENCIA), UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA Casa Árabe 2009 55 Special nights

Book Night On April 23rd, Casa Árabe joined in the events of the Book Night held by the Regional Government of Madrid, organising a double activity around contemporary Iraqi poetry. First, a round table on Iraqi poetry was held with the participation of two specialists in the subject, lecturers from the Autonomous University in Madrid, Rosa Isabel Martínez Lillo and Waleed Saleh Alkhalifa, and the poets Abdulhadi Sadoun (Iraq) and Luis Rafael Hernández (Cuba). Next came a recital of contemporary Iraqi poetry by the performer Carmen Arribas and the Egyptian poet Ahmed Yamani, who Casa Árabe headquarters in Madrid illuminated on White Night read a selection of texts in Spanish and Arabic, taken from the book Otros mesopotámicos White Night raros: antología de la última poesía iraquí (Other odd Mesopotamians: anthology of the latest As in previous years, Casa Árabe took part in Iraqi poetry), recently published jointly by Casa the White Night organised by Madrid City Árabe and Cosmopoética. Council with the contribution of numerous Madrid institutions. And so, on the night of September 19th, the building of the Madrid headquarters of Casa Árabe was transformed by a light and sound show that illuminated its walls, tower and garden in a very special way. Throughout the night the doors remained open to the public so they could visit the photographic exhibition Arab Cosmovisions inside. Documentary information was provided on the institution and the activities it carries out, and different images of those activities were also projected in the grounds of the headquarters. during White Night White during Visitors to Arab Cosmovisions Arab to Visitors Iraqi poetry recital on Book Night Casa Árabe 2009 57 Special nights

58 SPECIAL NIGHTS Casa Árabe Septiembre 2009 en Casa Árabe y Lavapiés 2009 S I AL

MÚSICA From left to right: Afel Bocoum, Natacha Atlas and Hamid el Kasri Ramadan Nights programme, held between September 9th and 21st in the neighbourhood of Lavapiés in Following the success of its two previous AMAD N central Madrid, included three concerts Jueves 10 de septiembre incarnations, Casa Árabe again organised the D (Hamid El Kasri from Morocco, Afel Bocoum Ramadan Nights Festival in September, 2009. Hamid El Kasri (Marruecos) Year after year, this is becoming known as a from Mali and Natacha Atlas & the Mazeeka major annual event in the city of Madrid. On Ensemble from Egypt), a parade by the com- Viernes 11 de septiembre this occasion the festival, as well as following pany Le Caramantran, the projection of two the line previously adopted, extended its acti- musical documentaries (Sufi Soul. The mysti- Afel Bocoum (Mali) vities with the collaboration of Casa África in cal music of Islam, by Simon Broughton, and Las Palmas, on Gran Canaria island. The fes- Voices from Morocco, by Izza Genini) and the Sábado 12 de septiembre tival continued to disseminate social and cul- films Française (French) by Souad El Bouhati tural aspects of the Ramadan festivity, over and Bab’Aziz, the Sufi sage, by Nacer Natacha Atlas and above its religious character. The Festival Khemir. & The Mazeeka Ensemble (Egipto) Lugar: Parque Casino de la Reina (Metro: Embajadores y Lavapiés) Hora: 22:00h (apertura de puertas a las 21:00h) N C Entrada libre S Antes de los conciertos, desde las 20:30h, pasacalles con marionetas gigantes y música por las calles de Lavapiés Además… cine, charlas y actividades para niños y jóvenes www.casaarabe.esToda la información en

Organiza: Con la participación de: A.V. LA CORRALA, A.V. CENTRO – LA LATINA, AISE - ASOCIACIÓN DE INMIGRANTES SENEGALESES EN ESPAÑA, ASOCIACIÓN DE BANGALDESH EN ESPAÑA, ASOCIACIÓN SOCIO-CULTURAL AL FALAH, ASOCIACIÓN DISTRITO 12, ASOCIACIÓN MUSULMANA DE SENEGALESES “MOURIDE”, ASOCIACIÓN SEN TERANGA, ASOCIACIÓN SOCIO-CULTURAL IBN BATUTA, ASOCIACIÓN VALIENTE BANGLA, ATILA, BAIBARS LIBRERÍA DE CASA ÁRABE, CENTRO COMUNITARIO CASINO DE LA REINA, CENTRO CULTURAL CÁNOVAS DEL CASTILLO, CENTRO CULTURAL EL POZO TÍO RAIMUNDO, CEPI HISPANO MARROQUÍ, CUCO, ASOCIACIÓN CULTURA Y COOPERACIÓN AL DESARROLLO, FILMOTECA ESPAÑOLA, PAIDEIA ASOCIACIÓN PARA LA INTEGRACIÓN DEL MENOR, TRITOMA, SERVICIO MUNICIPAL DE CONVIVENCIA INTERCULTURAL (AYTO. DE ALCORCÓN). Colaboran: Casa Árabe es un consorcio formado por:

Performance by Hamid el Kasri Casa Árabe 2009 59 Special nights

60 SPECIAL NIGHTS Casa Árabe

2009 Casa Árabe’s Baibars Casa bookshop Árabe’s during the Ramadan Nights Festival Room Ramadan Nights Festival Tea

A lecture was organised to explain the sociocul- tion with cultural organisations in the neigh- tural dimension of the Ramadan festivities and bourhood of Lavapiés: the workshop on El their different manifestations in the Islamic periódico del Ramadán (The Ramadan world. Delivered by the anthropologist Sol Newspaper) was conducted with the CUCO Tarrés, it was entitled “Night and day: abstinen- Pro-culture and Cooperation with ce and celebration in the month of Ramadan”. In Development Association and the Centre-La addition, introductory talks were organised Latina Residents Association), Games and under the title “What is Ramadan? Fasting, fes- Traditional Tales from Morocco and an Arab tivities and custom”, and delivered by Virtudes calligraphy workshop (with the Hispano- Téllez, Hamid Bellahcene and M’hani Belrhirib, Moroccan Centre of the Department of in cultural centres in different neighbourhoods of Immigration and Cooperation of the Madrid Madrid (“Casino de la Reina” Community Regional Government), a storytelling ses- Cultural Centre, “Cánovas del Castillo” sion with El sabio Moyut (Wise Old Moyut) Community Cultural Centre in Usera, “Santa performed by the Bernes Company in Petronila” Cultural Centre in Villaverde, “El Pozo collaboration with Tritoma, a shadow pup- del Tío Raimundo” Cultural Centre in Vallecas pet theatre workshop The Magic Lantern and the Municipal Arts Centre in Alcorcón). (with the “La Claqueta” Cultural Association), as well as a football cham- Recreational and educational activities for pionship (with the Ibn Batuta Sociocultural children were also organised, in collabora- Association, ASCIB). One of the children’s One workshops of for the Ramadan children’s Nights Parade beforePasacalles the concerts previo a los conciertos Presentation of a concert in the Festival Casa Árabe 2009 61 The Guadalajara International Book Fair and other Fairs

In order to promote the dissemination of Arab topics and authors published in Spanish, Casa Árabe took part in the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) in Mexico, considered the most important Spanish-language fair in the world, because of its size. Casa Árabe’s bookshop had a stand with a very representative sample of books on Arab topics published in Spain. Donations were requested from the main Spanish publishers with titles related to the Arab world and at the end of the fair the enti- re bibliographical collection on display was From left to right: Rabih Alameddine, Ignacio Padilla donated to the University of Guadalajara Karim Hauser, Christina Lembrecht and Foundation. Also, Casa Árabe took the Lebanese novelist Rabih Alameddine and Casa Árabe had a stand in three other book the Syrian poet Maram al-Masri to Mexico. fairs in Spain: Córdoba (April), Seville (May) Both were able to engage in a dialogue with and Madrid (May-June). Seville saw the pre- their Mexican counterparts Ignacio Padilla sentation of Muslims in Spain. A Reference and Raúl Bañuelos in two events in the fair Guide, the book published by Casa Árabe sections devoted to “Pages of the World” and the Office for Democratic Institutions and and “Poetry Salon”, and maintained a dialo- Human Rights (ODIHR), as well as a recital of gue with each other organised by Casa short stories, in Arabic and Spanish, with the Árabe under the title A thousand and one authors Yassin Adnan (Morocco) and meanings: contemporary Arab poetry and Hipólito G. Navarro (Spain). The novelist novels, presented by the director of the la Abdellah Taia (Morocco) was present at the FIL, Nubia Macías. Madrid Book Fair. IN ORDER TO PROMOTE THE DISSEMINATION OF ARAB TOPICS AND AUTHORS PUBLISHED IN SPANISH, CASA ÁRABE TOOK PART IN THE INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR IN GUADALAJARA Maram al-Masri Yassin Adnan

Casa Árabe 2009 63 Casa Árabe and the Hay Festival

In 2009, Casa Árabe took part in the three nalism and the role of creative writers. main international editions of the Hay Festival: Joumana Haddad took part in a conversation Cartagena de Indias, Segovia and Granada. with the Afghan writer Atiq Rahimi and parti- Through this activity, our institution is suppor- cipated in the final poetry gala. Adonis talked ting and promoting the presence and kno- with the Spanish journalist Andrés Rojo, wledge of Arab authors, both those already going through different aspects of his career established and the younger generation. and poetic oeuvre. Finally, Rabih Alameddine participated in a round table with Rawi Hage, At the Hay Festival in Cartagena de Indias also Lebanese, and the Frenchman Mathias (January, 2009), Casa Árabe focused on Latin Enard; the three spoke about writing, identity American authors of Arab extraction, and and memory of civil war. also sponsored the presence of the Colombian Luis Fayad, the Lebanese Joumana Haddad, the Mexican Alberto Ruy Sánchez and the Peruvian Leyla Bartet. The authors took part in various activities, especially noteworthy the conversation between Fayad and Ruy Sánchez on The Arab factor in our writing/literature, chaired by Bartet. More than 350 people attended this event alone, and the presence of Casa Árabe made it possible to initiate future collaborations with some Colombian institutions such as the Externado University of Colombia and the magazine Arcadia.

At the Hay Festival in Segovia (September, 2009) our participation, for the third successi-

ve year, focused on the young Lebanese wri- Joumana Haddad and athe translator Hay read Festival, poetry Cartagena at de Indias ter Zena al-Khalil, who presented her book Beirut I love you in a conversation with Guillermo Altares.

For the second year running, Casa Árabe took part in the Hay Festival in Granada (May, 2009), with the participation of the Syrian- Lebanese poet Adonis, the Lebanese novelist Rabih Alameddine and the Lebanese poet Joumana Haddad. These guests took part in a number of festival events, bringing Arab voices to the different debates on literature, jour- Luis Fayad, Alberto Ruy Sánchez and Leyla Bartet at the Hay Festival, Cartagena de Indias

Casa Árabe 2009 65 Enard at the Hay 2009 Alhambra, Festival, Zena al-Khalil at the Hay Festival in Segovia Rawi Hage, Rabih and Alameddine Mathias The educational exhibition Maghreb: the Arab West was held within the framework of educational programmes developed by Casa Árabe for presentation and dissemination in educa- Casa Árabe has welcomed visits from different tional and cultural centres. groups of children, teenagers and adults, coming from associations, schools, cultural cen- Despite the glut of information and images that tres and courses for senior citizens, interested in reach us every day through the media, and the getting to know the institution and its activities. growing presence of new, fellow citizens of In the course of 2009, Casa Árabe has received Maghreb origin, the wider Spanish public does visits from primary and secondary school pupils, not know, or has only a very limited knowledge groups of undergraduate and postgraduate stu- of, our neighbours to the south. The Maghreb dents, senior citizens involved in lifelong lear- continues to be perceived through a number of ning, cultural centres, women’s organisations, ... simplistic and stereotypical representations that In addition, the institution has been visited by not only cause distortion, but prevent an different foreign delegations: students of artistic understanding of its realities and pre-condition disciplines from the Mohammed bin Rashid Al or block possibilities of dialogue and co-existen- Maktoum Foundation and the University of al- ce. This exhibition of photographs with accom- Ruwais (United Arab Emirates), young panying commentary seeks to offer different Palestinians and Israelis, students from the visions of North Africa, presenting this region as French institutes of Morocco, etc. it is; the West of the Arab world, very close to the south of Europe and the Iberian Peninsula, With the intention of supporting the interchan- In addition, Casa Árabe has an internship pro- encompassing great diversity and dynamic ge and dissemination of artistic experiences, gramme for students who, once the relevant societies. The exhibition is designed to be used in collaboration with the Emirates Foundation, agreement has been signed with the respecti- in schools, associations, public libraries and cul- Casa Árabe has developed a programme of ve universities, complete the practical compo- tural centres. This exhibition has been travelling artists in residence, hosting the Emirates cre- nents of their undergraduate degree, master’s around regions such as Madrid, Andalusia, the ative artist Layla Juma in Spain for three degree and postgraduate study in the various Canary Islands, La Rioja, Murcia, Castilla y León months. This young artist from Sharja created departments of our institution (Autonomous and Castilla La Mancha. Photographs by Julián- a work in the Barcelona visual arts production University in Barcelona-Leonardo da Vinci Álvaro Alemany, Alfredo Cáliz, Rubén centre, Hangar, and on the 23rd of April pre- European Programme, Autonomous University Caravaca, Carma Casulá, José Expósito, sented the results of this work made during in Madrid, Complutense University in Madrid, Albert González Farrán, Francisco González her stay, in interaction with other artists in International University of Andalusia (UNIA), Pérez, Joana Mesonero, Pedro Rojo, Luis de residence. Paris-Sorbonne Abu Dhabi University). Vega and Vermondo.

Casa Árabe 2009 67 Francisco Franco, Mónica Ríus, Elena de Launch of the readers’Photo guide. IEMed Felipe, Alfonso Carmona, Felisa Sastre and Guadalupe Sáiz Casa Árabe and the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) have co-published a reading guide that follows the pattern of the guides Mil y un libros para asomarse al mundo Casa Árabe and the Spanish Society of Arab árabe (A thousand and one books to delve into Studies (SEEA) have signed a collaboration the Arab world), published by Casa Árabe in agreement through which, since 2008, Casa previous years. The Catalan edition, La mar de Árabe have supported the annual SEEA Prize for llibres per endinsar-se en el món àrab (A sea new Arabist researchers. The 16th Symposium of books for glancing at the Arab world), lists of the SEEA was held in the Madrid headquar- works recently published in that language on ters of Casa Árabe in October. On this occa- the Arab and Islamic world. More than 250 sion the main topics of discussion were works are reviewed, grouped according to Masters and postgraduate studies in the area genre (essay, literature, language, travel, gastro- of Arab and Islamic Studies, and Spanish nomy …) demonstrating the existence of signi- reviews of Arab and Islamic Studies: criteria for ficant publishing activity that in turn reveals the editorial quality and inclusion in the ISI, as well growing interest of a Catalan-language readers- as holding the Annual General Meeting of the hip and publishers in Arab and Islamic topics. association. Launch of the readers’Photo guide. IEMed

Casa Árabe 2009 69 More than 300 students at the Arabic language centre

Language learning is one of the most effective ways to approach the Arab world. Although Spain is the only European country to have a border with an Arab country, the level of knowledge of the Arabic language is inadequate. Casa Árabe has decided to contribute to the teaching of Arabic in its educated and dialectal varieties and to its standardisation as a foreign language for regular study.

The Arabic Language Centre is located in the Madrid headquarters and began its activities in 2008. Between October and June, regular courses in modern standard Arabic and Moroccan dialectal Arabic are taught at different times: morning, afternoon-evening and weekends. Summer courses (semi-intensive and intensive) are offered in July. The centre has five classrooms, and a collection of manuals, reference books and teaching resources. Classes are taught by a team of 12 teachers.

During 2008-2009, between 251 and 316 students took Arabic language courses in each term, with one hundred attending the summer courses; this number rose substantially in the first quarter of 2009-2010. Of these, 90% study modern standard Arabic and 10% study Moroccan dialectal Arabic.

Some students were able to follow advanced courses by attending intensive summer courses at the University of Amman, under the aus- First International Congress on Teaching pices of an agreement between Casa Árabe Arabic as a Foreign Language ARABELE and this University. Likewise, courses have 2009 been organised in collaboration with the Organised jointly with the University of Murcia Diplomatic School for members of the Spanish and the Toledo School of Translators, Casa parliament, as well as an intensive course for Árabe hosted this event at its Madrid head- diplomats and government officials posted to quarters on September 25th and 26th, with Arab countries. more than 140 participants coming from 12 countries. Aimed at teachers of Arabic, people interested in the Arabic language and how it is taught, researchers, graduates and doctoral students in Arabic, the congress set out to analyse the situation of Arabic language teaching in Spain, comparing it with other countries; to provide a meeting point for teachers involved in teaching and researching the Arabic language; to reflect on the new metho- dologies in the field of foreign language teaching and their application to Arabic; to analyse the needs of Arabic language teaching in the 21st century and to disseminate the research on Arabic language teaching, as well as specific academic actions that will contribute to improving this.

One of the classes in the Arabic Language Centre Casa Árabe 2009 71 Casa Árabe at Documenta and PhotoEspaña

The third Panorama of contemporary Arab documentary cinema was held within the framework of the Documenta Festival Madrid 09, on this occasion under the single theme of Experiences and Testimonials. The curator of the films, Basel Ramsis, an Egyptian director expert in documentary cinema, selected a total of nine documentaries, six of which brought us closer to Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Syria, combi- IN THE FRAMEWORK OF ning an enquiry into memory with a gaze loo- king to the present. The other three works THE DOCUMENTA formed part of a special section dedicated to the Palestinian woman director Mai Masri FESTIVAL MADRID 09 who was brought over by Casa Árabe to take part in the panel of judges for the Madrid OUR THIRD PANORAMA OF Documenta Festival. Over the course of these days, Casa Árabe’s audience also had the opportunity to share with the Palestinian CONTEMPORARY ARAB director her vision of the current reality of the Middle East and, in particular, the gaze of DOCUMENTARY CINEMA WAS Palestinian and Lebanese children and teenagers, something very present in her films. DEDICATED TO EXPERIENCES This third panorama of documentary film could be seen throughout the year in other AND TESTIMONIALS cities such as Córdoba, Granada and Almería (in collaboration with the Andalusian Film Library); Vigo (in collaboration with the Cineclub Lumière); Pontevedra (in collaboration with the Cineclub Padre Feijoo) and Tetouan (in collaboration with the Hispano- Moroccan Centre). Basel Ramsis and Nuria Medina listen to the Palestinian film director Mai Masri

Casa Árabe 2009 73 Casa Árabe at Documenta and PhotoEspaña

CASA ÁRABE AT 74 DOCUMENTA AND PHOTOESPAÑA Casa Árabe

2009 Image of the Arab Cosmovisions exhibition

The exhibition Arab Cosmovisions was organised within the framework of PhotoEspaña 2009 and could be visited in Madrid between June 3rd and September 27th. On this occasion, the work of artists THE ARTISTS INCLUDED IN THIS Lara Baladi, Nermine Hamman, Mohamed Bourouissa, Hicham Benohoud and Yto EXHIBITION DEMONSTRATED THE Barrada was on display, showcasing the multiplicity of artistic expression within con- DIVERSITY OF CONTEMPORARY ARAB temporary Arab creativity. The artists included in this exhibition reflected on the Arab stereotypes lodged in our collective imagi- CREATIVITY nation, presented through vernacular photographs the marks that conflicts imprint on cities, investigated the collective identities of countries through their iconography and showed attempts to approach the complexity of individual identity. La morsure © Mohamed Bourouissa and Galerie Les filles du calvaire Paris/Brussels; Version soft 3 © Hicham Benohoud Image of the Arab Cosmovisions exhibition. Works by Lara Baladi and Yto Barrada Yto and Baladi Lara by Works exhibition. Cosmovisions Arab the of Image From top to bottom and left to right: Factory 1 © Yto Barrada and Galerie Polaris – Paris; Palimpsest 13 © Nermine Hammam;

Casa Árabe 2009 75 Arab music at the Guitar Festival and poetry at Cosmopoética

CASA ÁRABE BRINGS THE PRESENCE OF ARAB CREATIVE ARTISTS TO THE COSMOPOÉTICA INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL

For two years now, Casa Árabe has been taking part in the Cosmopoética International Poetry Festival, supporting the presence of Arab creative writers or creative works related to this world. The Cosmopoética International Poetry Festival emerged in 2004, with the aim of taking poetry to all corners of the city, in an attractive and agreeable way, involving all sectors of the population. For the April, 2009, edition, the author chosen by Casa Árabe was the Iraqi woman poet Dunya Mikhail, who took part in the activities World Poets in Córdoba (poetry in high schools), Cosmopoética in the provinces (Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo) and in launching one of the titles in the Cosmopoética collection co- published with Casa Árabe: Otros mesopotámi- cos raros: antología de la última poesía iraquí (Other odd Mesopotamians: anthology of the latest Iraqi poetry).

Rabih Abou-Khalil took part in the 29th edition of the Guitar Festival with a concert performed on July 5th at the Gran Teatro in Córdoba, centred on his work Em Português (In Portuguese). Along with the fado singer Ricardo Ribeiro, he gave an impressive concert of Arab-Portuguese fusion. With this concert, Casa Árabe continued our well established collaboration with this Cordovan festival.

Casa Árabe also included the course Introduction to Arab Music, taught by Luis Delgado, as part of the festival’s educational programme. The course, aimed at amateurs and professionals alike, analysed the icono- graphical and documentary sources of this important musical heritage, speaking of its origins, its present and its future. Delgado explained the keys to its structures and dedicated a special section to points in common and differences between the Arab lute and the guitar. García, in a reading at the Luis de Góngora Secondary School in Córdoba in School Secondary Góngora de Luis the at a in reading García, From left to right: Rachid Errahmouni, Dunya Mikhail and David Leo David and Mikhail Dunya Errahmouni, Rachid right: to left From

Casa Árabe 2009 77 Arab music at the Guitar Festival and poetry at Cosmopoética

ARAB MUSIC AT THE GUITAR FESTIVAL 78 AND POETRY AT COSMOPOÉTICA Casa Árabe

2009 Performance in Córdoba of “The place and the word. From left to right: Andrés Ocaña Rabadán, José Manuel Roldán Nogueras, Gema Martín Aguilar Muñoz and Manuel Torres Interrupted conversation”. Alberto Núñez (below) and Ziad Chakaroun (above)

During March and April, in the sphere of the Within the framework of Casa Árabe’s colla- performing arts, the on-going collaboration boration with the University of Córdoba, a CASA ÁRABE AND THE UNIVERSITY with the Cervantes Institute led to the staging concert was held in the month of October in of The place and the word. Interrupted con- the Mosaics Hall of Córdoba’s fortress with OF CÓRDOBA PRESENTED AMINA versation, the result of research done in Beirut the Moroccan singer Amina Alaoui, whose by the choreographer Fernand Renjifo. The musical talent is closely linked to the perfor- cities of Córdoba, in the context of its mance of Arab-Andalusian lyrical works. ALAOUI’S PERFORMANCE OF Cosmopoética 09 Festival, Cádiz and Seville Also in Córdoba, although in a completely were also able to see this performance, which different musical register, we organised an ARAB-ANDALUSIAN LYRICAL MUSIC involved the work of actors Ziad Chakaroun Arab hip hop concert in the city’s Corredera and Alberto Núñez. Square at the end of November. The perfor- mers were 1ª Generación and Yasín, both of whom belong to the collective One Salam. This concert was part of the Third Barter Days organised by the Youth Department of Córdoba City Council. Dunya Mikhail and Abdul Hadi Sadoun at the launch of “Otros mesopotámicos raros”

CASA ÁRABE, IN COLLABORATION WITH THE CERVANTES INSTITUTE, STAGES THE PLACE AND THE WORD. INTERRUPTED CONVERSATION

Casa Árabe 2009 79 Amina Alaoui One Salam The Qatar Symphony

On February 26th, the SAKO symphony orchestra of Qatar, conducted by Salem Abdul-Karem, performed the Qatar Symphony at the National Auditorium in Madrid. This project came to fruition for the first time in Spain thanks to the collaboration between Casa Árabe and the Qatar Foundation. Qatar Symphony, a composition in four movements that evokes in musical terms the story of the challenges and successes of this Gulf country, is an initiative of the spouse of the Emir of Qatar, Her Highness Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser al-Missned, chairwoman of the Qatar Foundation, an institution founded ten years ago to promote education, culture and the sciences. After its first performance in Doha, the Qatar Symphony was performed in Istanbul in October, 2008. Madrid was the second stop on its international tour.

Casa Árabe 2009 81 Qatar Symphony performed by the SAKO Symphony Orchestra Friday Film Night at Casa Árabe

During 2009, the Nazharat (Gazes) cinema programme took on the character of a permanent event after Casa Árabe made the definitive move in mid-2008 to its Madrid headquarters, complete with a screening room. Every Monday and Friday throughout the year, it has been possible to enjoy a session of Arab cinema, thus building up a regular audience. A consistent line has been followed in designing individual, monthly seasons and collaborating with film festivals in our country. During 2009, many of these seasons travelled to other Spanish and American cities.

The first season in the year was reserved for the Latin American programme: Arabs and Americans, the cinema as a mirror, which began in February with four documentaries by young directors from both geographical regions, the Arab and the American. Viva Guevara, by Maha Shahbah; Tiro libre, by Marcelo Piña; Soy palestino, by Osama Qashoo, and El color de los olivos, by Carolina Rivas. The idea of this season was to bring closer to the audience the intersec- The month of March was dedicated to new ting visions of two Latin Americans (Mexico, Moroccan cinema with a selection of films Chile) and two Arabs (Palestine, Egypt) who grouped together under the title explore the realities of the other region with an Moroccans: a contemporary gaze, in colla- innovative lens and a documentary vision. boration with the Málaga Festival. Titles The season was inaugurated with the presen- included Samira’s garden, by Latif Lahlou; ce of Egyptian director Maha Shahbah and a Where are you going Moshé?, by Hassan substantial audience. Benjelloun; Satanic angels, by Ahmed Boulane; Heart edges, by Hicham Ayouch, and Ali Zaoua, prince of the streets by Nabil Ayouch. The five works, all full-length feature films, demonstrate the variety of topics these film-makers are tackling, and the good creative moment of Moroccan cinema. Despite achieving great success with the public in Morocco and in other European countries, the five films selected have never been on general release in our country. The season was launched in the presence of the Moroccan Ambassador in Spain and Abdellatif Laassadi, member of the Moroccan Cinematographic Centre (CCM). Moreover, some of the directors were invited by Casa Árabe to maintain contact with the public after their movies had been screened. The season was also shown in Granada and Córdoba in collaboration with the Andalusian Film Library, under the auspices of the Valladolid International Film Week (Seminci), and also integrated into the film programme of the Sea of Music Festival in Cartagena.

Casa Árabe 2009 83 Friday Film Night at Casa Árabe

84 FRIDAY FILM NIGHT AT CASA ÁRABE Casa Árabe In June, Casa Árabe used its programme School at the University of Cádiz and in Gazes to recover some of the few works of Algeciras. Similarly, at the end of October the 2009 Arab cinema shown in cinemas in our season was programmed as a parallel session country. Even when issued on general relea- in the Amal 09 International Festival of Euro- se, most of these works have a short life in Arab Cinema (Santiago de Compostela). the cinemas, and so many spectators are grateful for the opportunity to see them The year ended with the re-playing of the sea- again on the big screen. On this occasion the son on Urban cartographies: the city in con- works shown included Cuscús, by Abdelatif temporary Arab cinema, curated by Alberto Kechiche; Bab’Aziz, the prince who contem- Elena, university lecturer and specialist in plated his soul, by Nacer Khemir; Caramel, cinema from the South. With this repetition, by Nadine Labaki, and The Yacoubian buil- Casa Árabe was responding to the demand ding, by Marwan Hamed, a full-length film from the regular public that had not had the that was also screened in Córdoba in the opportunity to see the films included in this First International Forum on Diversity and season when they were screened in 2008. Inter-culturality and in the IDEM Festival of Part of this season was also shown in Málaga Gay Lesbian Theatre in Andalusia. in collaboration with the Centre for Contemporary Art, and was taken in its enti- rety to the city of New York, thanks to the collaboration with the Cervantes Institute. Likewise, the season The first steps of Maghreb cinema which had been produced in 2008 could be viewed in the Andalusian cities of Córdoba, Algeciras, Granada and Cádiz.

To support those productions that did manage to go on general release in our

country, Casa Árabe has collaborated in the dissemination and previewing of titles such as Couscous by Abdelatif Kechiche, or Red Satin, by Raja Amari. Likewise, it is important to point out the significant number of continuing collaborations with cultural or educational entities and film festivals in our country that have been paying attention to the so-called “peripheral cinemas”. Continuing with the collaboration undertaken This was the case of the Cinemas of the in 2008 with the Tarifa African Film Festival, a South Festival (Granada), San Sebastián’s season on The first steps of Egyptian Cinema Cinema in Motion Festival, the Amal 09 was shown in the Madrid headquarters in International Festival of Euro-Arab Cinema October and included works like The white (Santiago de Compostela), Málaga Film rose, by Mohamed Karim; Weddad, by Fritz Festival, Tarifa African Film Festival, 39th April was dedicated to the retrospective for Kramp and Gamal Madkoor; Salama is all edition of the Alcine Festival in Alcalá de Syrian director Mohammed Malas, organised right, by Niazi Mostafa; Love and vengeance, Henares, the 22nd Festival of the South in collaboration with the Cinemas of the South by Youssef Wahbi; also eight animated shorts (Agüimes), Mondoc, 2nd International Festival. The films were screened in parallel in by the brothers Herschel, Salomon and David Festival of Documentary Cinema in Madrid and Granada. The director was him- Frenkel. This season was also put on by the Montaverner and the Third Festival of Arab self present in both cities, where he lectured Andalusian Film Library in its Córdoba and and Mediterranean Cinema organised by on the situation of Syrian cinema. Algeciras facilities, as well as in the Straits Sodepau.

Casa Árabe 2009 85 Love and Desire in the Hadiqa WITH THE ARRIVAL OF SUMMER, FOR THE FIRST TIME CASA ÁRABE SCREENED FILMS IN THE OPEN AIR IN THE HADIQA

With the arrival of summer, for the first time Casa Árabe screened films in the open air in the Hadiqa, the garden of the Casa Árabe headquarters in Madrid. For ten consecutive days in the month of July there were screenings at night, with a sizeable audience. The film programme was structured around the season Labyrinth of passions: love and desire in Arab cinema, curated by Alberto Elena, who chose five titles related to issues of gender and sexuality in the Arab world. This season included both classical films from the Egyptian cinema of the 1940s (A Glass and a cigarette and Sleepless) and other works of contemporary film-makers from Lebanon and Morocco (Dunia and Marock). The programme also included the film Red Satin by the director Raja Amari, and this screening was its preview in Spain, a few days before it came out in commercial cinemas.

Casa Árabe 2009 87 Lebanon Week

At the beginning of the month of July, Casa Árabe organised a Lebanon Week with activities covering the country’s literature, gastro- nomy, cinema and music. The music section included two concerts held in Casa Árabe’s Hadiqa (garden). On July 4th, we had the opportunity to welcome the Nahawand ensemble, whose conductor and well known kanun performer, Nouhad Akiki, is one of the professional staff linked to the Beirut Music Conservatory. On July 6th, the Madrid audience could enjoy the renowned lutist Rabih Abou-Khalil, who was in Casa Árabe performing as part of a trio with Jarrod Cagwin (drums and percussion) and Luciano Bondioni (accordion).

In the realm of literature, a bilingual recital of the poet Henri Zoghaib was organised and a round table was held with the novelists Elias Khoury and Juan Cruz to celebrate the publication in Spanish of La cueva del sol (The Cave of the Sun), the first work by Khoury to be translated into Spanish. Images of the concert by the Rabih Abou-Khalil Trio Elias Khoury and Juan Cruz Nouhad Akiki

Casa Árabe 2009 89 Jerusalem, capital of Arab culture 2009

The exhibition Jerusalem at the beginning of the 20th century. Heritage and culture could be seen between December 2nd, 2009, and February 14th, 2010. It was organised in order to celebrate Jerusalem as Arab cultural capital 2009 and its aim was to bring the public closer to the history of the city through old photographs and traditional costumes.

Jerusalem contains an impressive historical, artistic and cultural heritage whose preservation is a matter of concern to the whole international community. This programme set out to contribute a very significant exhibition of that heritage to make it known, valued and respected. To this effect we have used the historical photographic collection of the French Biblical and Archaeological School, EBAF (Saint Stephen’s Convent), thanks to its sub-prior Jean Michel de Tarragon, and also the Spanish Ambassador Juan Durán-Loriga’s private collection of Palestinian costumes. Musa Amer Odeh, listen to Gema Martín Muñoz on the occasion of the inauguration of the exhibition the of inauguration the of occasion the on Muñoz Martín Gema to listen Odeh, Amer Musa The Spanish ambassador, Juan Durán-Loriga, Shadia Touqan and General Delegate of Palestine in Spain, in Palestine of Delegate General and Touqan Shadia Durán-Loriga, Juan ambassador, Spanish The

Casa Árabe 2009 91 Jerusalem, capital of Arab culture 2009

JERUSALEM, 92 CAPITAL OF ARAB CULTURE 2009 Casa Árabe To mark this commemoration, Casa Árabe also organised a series of activities between 2009 November and December. A concert was held in the Infanta Isabel Theatre in Madrid, with a performance by the Joubran Trio, three lute-playing brothers (Samir, Wissam and Adnan Joubran) who gave the public great pleasure with virtuoso interpretations of their repertoire known as Majaz. Also, Casa Árabe organised a conference entitled The preservation of the historical and cultural legacy of Jerusalem, given by Shadia Touqan, who is in charge of the NGO Welfare Association’s programme for revitalising the old city of Jerusalem. Thanks to her very relevant experience of many years at the forefront of this programme, the speaker was able to present images explaining the difficulties and challenges of preserving the city’s valuable heritage. Finally, the programme included the showing of the documentary film Jerusalem … the history of the east side (2008) by the director Mohammed Alatar, in which he offers a vision of the life and current problems of the city.

Most of the photographs date from the first two decades of the 20th century. The EBAF photographic library has an archive which, while it accumulated its first images in 1890, experienced a great thrust between 1905 and 1907. It has a collection of 17,000 negatives, among them those made by the Spanish Dominican Manuel Ferrero Gutiérrez when he was a student at the Biblical School of Jerusalem between 1929 and 1931.

The old traditional costumes allow us to appreciate the embroidery technique of the different regions of Palestine, characterised by the use of eye-catching colours in compli- cated geometrical designs and floral shapes. The exhibition included 11 embroidered pie- ces, some of them genuine masterpieces that date from the first half of the 20th century and are highly representative of the different regions of Palestine: Bethlehem, Ramallah, Hebron, Bir-al-Sab’a (Beer Sheva) and Beit Dayan.

The Joubran Trio accompanied Hbeish The by Joubran the Trio percussionist Youssef Casa Árabe 2009 93 Hebrón. Arquitectura e identidad de un pueblo

heritage. Its restoration and preservation are the work of a local institution, the Hebron Restoration Committee, which has received substantial support from the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development (AECID) since 1998. It has also created a workshop-school that teaches traditional skills. The different activities of this Palestinian restoration programme financed with Spanish funds include the publication in Spanish, Arabic and English of the book Hebron. Architecture and magic of a historical city, an exhaustive guide to the legacy and ethnographical value of the city of Hebron, as well as the recovery work being carried out. Casa Árabe hosted the launch of this publication in our headquarters, with the inestimable collaboration of the consul- general of Spain in Jerusalem, Ramón Ansoáin and Ali al-Qawasmi, president and director general of the Hebron Restoration Committee.

Spain was the first western country to sup- In respect of the historical-artistic heritage port the laudable work of the Hebron of the city of Hebron (al-Jalil), Casa Árabe Restoration Committee. Afterwards, other arranged a specific programme during the donors followed in our footsteps and today month of May including an exhibition of more than a dozen countries and internatio- photographs of the old city of Hebron, con- nal bodies also finance projects carried out sidered a jewel of Palestinian architectural by this committee.

Casa Árabe 2009 95 Lavapiés at Casa Árabe

collections, sometimes accompanied by short descriptive texts, and this collaboration allo- wed the creation of a photographic montage of the history of those living in the most multi- cultural districts in Madrid city. It was a highly interactive project in which the protagonists were the citizens themselves who provided, each from their diverse origins, cultures and religions, the images that told their story. The buy-in to the project by the neighbours in Lavapiés was very extensive and enriching.

Between April 1st and May 3rd, 2009, Casa Árabe organised the exhibition entitled Nosotros: un álbum colectivo del barrio de Lavapiés (Us: a collective album of the Lavapiés district), curated by Juan Valbuena and based on the production of a collective album by the inhabitants of the Lavapiés district in central Madrid. In order to produce the album, local residents wishing to participate One of the neighbours beside the photos contributed provided photographs from their own private to the exhibition

View View of the Us exhibition Casa Árabe 2009 97 Spanish artists in the United Arab Emirates

their stay in the UAE. The curator for the artistic residencies and for the exhibition in Casa Spain Manuel Piñeiro, Antoni Nicolau, Gema Martín Muñoz and Hissa Abdulla Ahmed to UAE the of Ambassador the Otaiba, Al Árabe was César Espada, the cultural attaché to the Spanish Embassy in the UAE between 2005 and 2008. The first exhibition organised in 2009 at the headquarters of Casa Árabe in Madrid was The Lab Project brings different cultural univer- entitled Space + Aliens. Spanish artists in the ses into contact and melds them to produce United Arab Emirates and comprised a sample intensely contemporary representations. It is a of the oeuvre of seven Spanish artists partici- way to encourage creation through a direct, pating in an artistic residence in the United polyhedral experience in movement. It is an Arab Emirates (UAE) during 2007 and 2008, active and productive inter-culturality. A way to known as the Lab Project. The exhibition was interpret other spaces, another way to unders- on display between February 4th and March tand the city and its inhabitants through the 15th and the artists who enjoyed this residen- specific creative gaze of the artist discovering a tial opportunity were Maider López, Ana Laura shocking new horizon. It is subjective and indi- Aláez, Colectivo Área3, Sergio Belinchón and vidual, but at the same time social and political. Miguel Trillo, Miguel Oriola and Evru. Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah… all of the The initiative for this project came from the Emirates, each in its own way, incite the ima- Spanish Embassy in the UAE, with the support ginations of the Spanish artists, impact them, of both its interfaces at the AECID and the lead them to rethink how the distances bet- Ministry of Culture. In addition, during each ween the past and the future may be very stage of the residency, support was received short and radical, how a cosmopolitan univer- from other institutions (in 2007 the State se can be built between the desert and the Company for Cultural Action Abroad, the sea, how modernisation is translated into a Andalusian Regional Government, the multitude of paths, attitudes and shapes, with Raymond Llul Institute, the Sharjah Biennial contradictions and paradoxes. and the Department of Culture and Information of the Government of Sharjah and, in 2008, the The final outcome is a transcultural communi- Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation, the cation that, in the Emirates, contributes to an Ghaf Art Gallery and the Abu Dhabi Authority understanding of self through the interpreta- for Culture and Heritage). The exhibition orga- tion of others and, in the case of the Spanish nised by Casa Árabe was the fruit of the colla- artists, to understand that what is different is boration of all these institutions. exciting and dynamic. And everything is con- jugated between the individual and his or her The works displayed represented a selection personal experience, the best way to break of all those produced by the artists during down barriers and clichés.

Poster advertising the exhibition Casa Árabe 2009 99 TransArab Contemporary Video

Between October 14th and November 15th, The 32 videos on display were grouped around Casa Árabe hosted the exhibition entitled seven themes: Visions of daily life, Migrations and TransArab: contemporary video. On the occa- frontiers, Gender and transgender, Mysticism, sion of the inauguration of Casa Árabe’s Media Alter Islam, Colonialism, and Experimental Library and in order to make audio-visual and visions. Within each themed section, the videos virtual works better known, the display provi- were chosen not for their degree of representati- ded a selection of videos from the holdings of veness and formal or conceptual interest but the Unidentified Video Observatory (OVNI in its rather for the flow, the distance covered, the dia- Spanish acronym) reflecting some of the reali- logue between reflections and languages created ties of the Arab and Muslim world. This exhibi- among them; the disparities they point to, the tion was curated by Toni Serra. gaps or richness they mutually provide. Inauguration of the exhibition Visitors watching one of the videos at TransArab: contemporary video contemporary TransArab: at videos the of one watching Visitors

Casa Árabe 2009 101 Iraq in the Americas

One of the characteristic features of 2009 was 2005 and 2008, and Waleed Saleh Alkhalifa, the dissemination in the Americas of the activi- senior lecturer at the Department of Arab and ties prepared by Casa Árabe on Iraq. The sea- Islamic Studies in the Autonomous University in son of Iraq in Central America consisted in Madrid. On the one hand, the goal was to colla- taking the photography exhibition entitled borate with Spain’s Cultural Centres in Central Voices from Iraq to Honduras in collaboration America and, on the other, to present a more up with the Ministry of Culture and Sport of that to date and closer version of the situation in Iraq central American country. A two-pronged to the public of Latin America. public discussion panel was conducted in collaboration with the Honduran Institute for Due to the interest aroused by the subject of Anthropology and History (IHAH), in which the Iraq in neighbouring countries, the Voices from director general of Casa Árabe, Gema Martín Iraq exhibition and the Tales from Iraq film sea- Muñoz, presented American Arabia and the son travelled to Santo Domingo, where they director of the IHAH, Darío Euraque, spoke of were shown in collaboration with the Spanish the Arabs in Honduras. On the other hand, a Cultural Centre in the Dominican Republic and film season was also organised with Tales from in the Dominican Film Library. Furthermore, Iraq visiting the cities of Tegucigalpa, Antigua the Arab Culture Institute in São Paulo inclu- and San Salvador in collaboration with the ded the same film season in the 4th Arab Cultural Centres of Spain in Honduras, World Film Festival organised at four cinemas Guatemala and El Salvador. The film season in São Paulo, the city of Brazil with the largest was complemented by a discussion panel on population of Arab origin. Finally, Casa Árabe Iraq, present and future, with the participation and Spain’s Cultural Centre in Miami, on the of the director general of Casa Árabe, the occasion of the projection of the film season, Spanish ambassador to Honduras, Ignacio invited the director Mohamed Al Daradji to Rupérez, who was the Chargé d’Affaires of the present his film Ahlaam and to debate the pre- Spanish embassy in Iraq between 1997 and sent and future of Iraq with the BBC World 2000 and Spanish ambassador to Iraq between Service journalist, Matías Zibell. Gallery of Tegucigalpa and Ignacio Rupérez at the inauguration of Voices from Iraq in the National Art From left to right: Waleed Saleh Alkhalifa, Darío Euraque, Rodolfo Pastor Fasquelle

Casa Árabe 2009 103 Colombian Arab Days

Within our American Arabia programme, we organised the Colombian Arab Days in Madrid during the month of May. Two days in which to discuss the Arab presence in Colombia. The first day included a public discussion panel on Colombian Arabs in Literature with the Colombian author of Lebanese origin, Luis Fayad, and with José Antonio de Ory, a diplomat and author of the book on the now deceased Colombian poet of Arab origin, Raúl Gómez Jattin: Ángeles clandestinos. Una memoria oral del poeta Raúl Gómez Jattin (Clandestine Angels. An oral memoir of the poet Raúl Gómez Jattin). Fayad and Jattin are two Colombian literary figures of Arab origin in whose respective and very different works there is an underlying complexity of belonging and identity.

The second day was devoted to the presentation of two documentaries produced by the Arabic TV channel Al Jazeera as part of its series on Arabs in Latin America. The documentaries in question, La historia de Lorica (Lorica’s story) and En directo desde Colombia (Live from Colombia), analyse respectively the Arab presence in a small town in Sinú valley and the leading role played by the descendants of Arabs in the mass media of Colombia. Luis Fayad

Casa Árabe 2009 105 Electronic American Arabia

In autumn, we opened the auditorium of Casa AN EXPERIMENTAL Árabe to an avant-garde event, the Electronic American Arabia, in collaboration with La Casa AVANT-GARDE ACTIVITY Encendida and Experimentaclub, a platform for the dissemination of experimental music with over ten years of history in Spain. Two days were AMONG ARAB AND scheduled to be a meeting point for the artists of sound of Arab and Latin-American origin and as LATIN-AMERICAN a venue for the wider dissemination of this alternative musical genre. The participants in the first MUSICIANS session included the Spaniard Javier Piñango, artist, director of Experimentaclub and co-director of EXP+LIMb0; the Argentinean Jorge Haro, artist, director of the season of Concerts in LIMb0, responsible for the Sudamérica Electrónica label and co-director of EXP+LIMb0; the Egyptian Mahmoud Refat, artist and director of the label 100Copies Music & 100live Electronic Music Festival; and the Mexican Manuel Rocha Iturbide, artist, co-founder and curator of the International Sound Art Festival in Mexico. On the second day, these two sound artists gave an audio-visual presentation of their work, giving rise to an innovative and infrequent event at the Casa Árabe’s auditorium due to the alternative nature of their music. Jorge Haro, Javier Piñango and Mahmoud Refat

Casa Árabe 2009 107 Workshops and storytelling

Arabic calligraphy. For the last three years, lectures given by specialists on the long his- Casa Árabe has been organising beginners’ tory of this artistic genre. workshops in Arabic calligraphy. These workshops, of different levels and duration, Kan ya Makan… On the occasion of the local are conducted at the institution’s headquar- festivities in the Salamanca district of Madrid ters and also at educational (primary and (October 10th and 11th), the headquarters of the secondary schools) and cultural centres (in Casa Árabe hosted a number of activities for chil- Madrid, Granada, Córdoba), as well as in the dren under the title Kan ya Makan… (‘Once upon framework of festivals and inter-cultural a time…’). For two days, the workshops organi- events. Most of them are initially intended to sed focused on puppets, storytelling and films for attract people interested in the basics of calli- children, giving young and old the opportunity to graphy as well as its artistic applications. come and learn more about the stories and cha- Some workshops have been accompanied by racters from the Arab world and the Orient. Three snapshots of children’s workshops

Casa Árabe 2009 109 The Tribune. Conferences and Round tables

James Piscatori, “Re-inventing Umma? The Presentation by Octavio Salazar Benítez translocality of pan-Islamism”. Presentation (Córdoba, April 20th), Ana María Ortiz Colón by Gema Martín Muñoz. Madrid, January (Jaén, April 21st) and Juan Martos Quesada 13th. (Madrid, April 22nd).

Haydar Ibrahim Ali, “Sudan, what future?”. Saïd Ihrai, “The democratic principle in inter- Presentation by Víctor Luis Gutiérrez national law: the strategy of Arab and Muslim Castillo, Juan de Dios Torralba and Manuel states”. Presentation by Víctor Luis Torres. Córdoba, January 13th. Gutiérrez Castillo (Córdoba, May 4th, and Jaén, May 5th) and by Elena Bravo Taberné Monia Ben Jémia, Irene Blázquez and (Madrid, May 6th). Matilde Mérida, Women and Islamic law in Arab countries. Presentation by José Rebollo Dolors Bramon, “The foundations of power Puig. Córdoba, February 10th. in classical Islam”. Presentation by Gema Martín Muñoz and José María Ferré de la Abdallah Saaf, “Readings of the current poli- Peña. Madrid, May 4th. tical landscape of Morocco”. Presentation by Ignacio Cembrero. Madrid, February 17th. Hansi Escobar, “Islamists and democracy: the impossible debate?”. Presentation by Zaid al-Wardy, “Non-violence and peace- Thierry Desrues and Rafael Ortega. building in Iraq: the role of civil society”. Córdoba, May 18th. Presentation by Felipe Daza and Juan Duarte. Madrid, February 26th. Gema Martín Muñoz, Bernard Vincent, Luis Bernabé Pons and José María Habib Ayeb, “Crisis and food sovereignty in Perceval, Meaning and consequences of the Arab world: the case of Egypt”. the expulsion of the Moriscos. Madrid, May Presentation by Ángeles Sánchez Díez. 26th. Madrid, March 10th. Mohammed Chaib Akhdim, Mohamed Fabian MacKinnon, “Reckoning the situation Kharchich, Said Kirlani, Gabriel Jairodín in Gaza: the UNRWA beyond the emer- Riaza and Gema Martín Muñoz, gency”. Presentation by Gema Martín Representation and leadership in Muslim Muñoz. Madrid, March 11th. communities in Spain. Madrid, June 1st.

Season on The Maghreb and Middle East in Saba Mahmood, “Women and Islamic pro- contemporary international society. selytising. The female da‘wa movement in Córdoba, Jaén and Madrid, March, April and Egypt”. Presentation by Gema Martín May. Muñoz. Madrid, June 16th.

Raed Raffei, “Lebanon and the Middle East Marta Ruedas, “Governability and citizens- conflicts: present and future”. Presentation hip in Lebanon. The experience of the UNDP”. by Octavio Salazar Benítez and Víctor Luis Presentation by Soraya Rodríguez Ramos Gutiérrez Castillo (Córdoba, March 30th and and Gema Martín Muñoz. Madrid, June Jaén, March 31st) and by Alberto Ucelay 17th. (Madrid, April 2nd). Al-Imam Al-Sadeq Al-Mahdi, “What future Djamchid Momtaz, “Security in the Persian for Euro-Arab relations?”. Presentation by

Gulf and the Iranian nuclear dossier”. Gema Martín Muñoz. Madrid, June 18th. From top to bottomJémia, and James left Piscatori to right: Amadou Alassane, Fathia Hizem, Fabian MacKinnon, Alberto Ucelay, Shadia Touqan, Haydar Ibrahim Ali, Zaid al-Wardi, Monia Ben

Casa Árabe 2009 111 112 The Tribune. Conferences and Round tables THE TRIBUNE. CONFERENCES AND ROUND TABLES Casa Árabe Robert Lanquar, Étienne Pauchant and the Mediterranean: the case of Palestine”. Pedro Oviedo, Business cooperation in the Presentation by Olivia Orozco. Madrid, 2009 Mediterranean: legal aspects). Málaga, June November 10th. 27th. Gema Martín Muñoz, Manuel Barrios Amin Maalouf, El desajuste del mundo. Aguilera, Luis Bernabé Pons and Rafael Cuando nuestras civilizaciones se agotan Peinado Santaella, A modern take on the (The mismatch of the world. When our civili- expulsion the Moriscos. Presentation by sations are exhausted). With the participation Carmelo Pérez Beltrán. Granada, November of Gema Martín Muñoz and Javier Rioyo. 19th. Madrid, September 28th. Shadia Touqan, The conservation of the his- Javier Piñango, Jorge Haro, Mahmoud toric and cultural heritage of Jerusalem. Refat and Manuel Rocha Iturbide, The pro- Presentation by Gema Martín Muñoz. duction of experimental electronic music in Madrid, December 1st. other latitudes. Presentation by Karim Hauser. Madrid, October 7th. Helen Samhan and Rachad Antonius, Arabs in North America. Presentation by Karim Brian Katulis, “The policy of the USA in the Hauser. Madrid, December 17th. Middle East and Afghanistan”. Presentation by Pere Vilanova. Madrid, October 15th.

Khadija Elmadmad, Ali Bensaad and Cheikh Oumar Ba, Sub-Saharan migrations in Maghreb. Presentation by Olivia Orozco. Madrid, October 20th.

Juan José Tamayo Acosta, “Inter-culturality in religious traditions. The case of Islam”. Presentation by Gema Martín Muñoz and Margarita Pintos. Madrid, October 27th.

Tarik Yousef and José Antonio Ocampo “The political dimensions of the global economic crisis: a perspective from the Arab world”. Presentation by Gema Martín Muñoz. Madrid, October 28th.

Gema Martín Muñoz and Najat El Hachmi, Arab identity in current Spanish literature. Presentation by Eduardo Lago. New York, November 2nd.

Mohamed Smain, Amadou Alassane Mbow and Fathia Hizem, Human rights and transitional justice in the Maghreb). Presentation by Isaías Barreñada. Madrid, November 5th.

Gema Martín Muñoz, Peter Leuprecht and Sami Massoud, Meaning and consequences of the expulsion of the Moriscos. Presentation by Yasmina Chouakri. Montreal, November 7th.

Nader Hrimat, “Challenges for agriculture

and food security in the south and east of From top to bottom and left to right: Amadou Alassane, Fathia Hizem, Haydar Fabian Ibrahim MacKinnon, Ali, Shadia Alberto Monia Zaid Touqan, Ucelay, Ben al-Wardi, Jémia, James Piscatori

Casa Árabe 2009 113 The Bookstand. Books and words

Leyla Bartet, Luis Fayad and Alberto Ruy Jacinto Soles Matutes, La empresa española Sánchez, The Arab essence in our en los países árabes: experiencias de inversión writings/literatures. Cartagena de Indias, y triangulación (Spanish companies in Arab January 29th. countries: experiences of investmens and trian- gulation). With the participation of Gaspar Joumana Haddad, Giovanni Quessep and Zarrías Arévalo, Gema Martín Muñoz and several poets, Poetry gala. Cartagena de Manuel Morón Ledro. Algeciras, March 31st. Indias, January 30th. Hamdi Abu Golayyel, Ladrones jubilados Joumana Haddad, Marianne Ponsford, (Retired thieves). With the participation of Andrés Hoyos and Amalia Iglesias, Co-habi- Mertxe Paris and Vanesa Casanova tation in the cultural media: between the digi- (Zaragoza, April 13th), Mertxe Paris, Vanesa tal and the printed word. Cartagena de Indias, Casanova, Muhsin al-Ramli and María Luz January 31st. Comendador (Madrid, April 14th) and Àngels Luis Fayad, Leyla Bartet, Eduardo Lago, Santa, Andreu Loncà and German París Carmen Boullosa, Alan Pauls, Laura (Lleida, April 16th). Restrepo and Enrique Serrano, Favourite Presentation of the television series Nexos. book gala. Cartagena de Indias, February 1st. Un esfuerzo colectivo (Nexos. A collective Judaísmo e islam profundos: ambigüedad y effort). With the participation of Federico espera, fe y entrega (Profound Judaism and Mayor Zaragoza, Javier Pons, Jaume Islam: ambiguity and waiting, faith and surren- Roures, Enrique Gaspar and Gema Martín der). Tribute to its author, Rodolfo Gil Muñoz. Madrid, April 15th. Benumeya Grimau. With the participation of Relatos y dibujos: el futuro de los refugiados Joaquín Ortega, M’hammad Benaboud and palestinos e iraquíes (Stories and drawings: the Fernando de Ágreda. Madrid, February 5th. future of Palestinian and Iraqi refugees). Recital María Rosa de Madariaga, Fondos documen- for children with the participation of Fernando tales en archivos españoles sobre la organiza- Sabio and Manuel Espinar. Madrid, April 16th. ción de la justicia en el protectorado español Bernabé López García and Miguel Hernando en Marruecos (1912-1956). Guía de situación y de Larramendi (ed.), Historia y memoria de las contenido [Documents in Spanish archives on relaciones hispano-marroquíes. Un balance en the organisation of the justice system under the el cincuentenario de la independencia de Spanish protectorate in Morocco (1912-1956). Marruecos (History and memoir of Spanish- Guide to their ssituation and contents]. With Moroccan relations. Taking stock on the fiftieth the participation of Alfonso Dávila Oliveda and anniversary of Morocco’s independence). With Farid Aoulouhaj. Madrid, March 5th. the participation of Omar Azziman and María Dolores López Enamorado (coord.), Raimundo Bassols. Madrid, April 29th. España y Marruecos: mujeres en el espacio Presentation of the magazine Manga Ancha. público (Spain and Morocco: women in the With the participation of Driss Bouissef Rekab, public eye). With the participation of Rafael Sara Monteiro, Antonio Trinidad, Teresa Vacas Valencia and Mohamed Said Saadi. Madrid, and Jesús Fernández Palacios (Cádiz, May March 12th. 6th) and Driss Bouissef Rekab, Sara Monteiro, Association of Young Muslims in Madrid, Antonio Trinidad and Teresa Vacas (Madrid, Queremos la paz. Palabras y dibujos contra la May 7th, and Badajoz, May 8th). violencia (We want Peace. Words and dra- Atiq Rahimi in conversation with Joumana wings against violence). Madrid, March 14th. Haddad. Granada, May 7th. Dolores Oliver, El Cantar de Mío Cid: génesis Adonis in conversation with José Andrés y autoría árabe (The Cantar de Mío Cid: Arab Rojo. Granada, May 8th. genesis and authorship). With the participation of Jorge Lirola and José Antonio González Rabih Alameddine and Rawi Hage in conver- Hegewisch and Mustapha El Hor El Mustapha and Hegewisch Alcantud. Madrid, March 26th. sation with Mathias Enard. Granada May 9th. Madrazo Elena al-Qawasmi, Ali al-Khalil, Zena Bek, Rayess Maalouf, Amin Zaragoza, Mayor Federico Bouissef, Driss Rumí, Consuelo right: to left and bottom to top From

Casa Árabe 2009 115 116 The Bookstand. Books and words THE BOOKSTAND. BOOKS AND WORDS Casa Árabe Rabih Alameddine, El contador de historias (Proceedings of the discussions on Spain, (The Teller of Tales). With the participation of Morocco and the sea); Víctor Luis Gutiérrez 2009 Álvaro Colomer and Carlota del Amo. Castillo, El Magreb y sus fronteras en el mar: Madrid, May 11th. conflictos de delimitación y propuestas de solución (The Maghreb and its maritime bor- Presentation of Cuadernos bilingües Alfar- ders: conflicts of demarcation and proposed Ixbilia. Marruecos y España, escrituras cruza- solutions); and Víctor Morales Lezcano das (Alfar-Ixbilia bilingual notepads. Morocco (coord.), Una visión del islam en África y desde and Spain, crossover writing). With the partici- Canarias. Historia de una frontera (A vision of pation of Hipólito G. Navarro, Yasin Adnan, Islam in Africa and from the Canary Islands. Antonio Reyes, Abdellatif El Bazi and History of a border). Madrid, November 11th. Abdellatif Zenan. Seville, May 21st. Kitín Muñoz Valcárcel, El Moussem de Tan Ana Crespo, Los bellos colores del corazón: Tan. Obra maestra del patrimonio oral e inma- color y sufismo (The beautiful colours of the heart: terial de la humanidad (The Tan Tan Moussem. colour and Sufism). With the participation of José A masterpiece of the world’s oral and intangi- Miguel Puerta Vílchez, Marisa Fernández Cid ble heritage). With the participation of Omar and Fernando Cabal. Madrid, May 25th. Azziman, Miguel de la Quadra-Salcedo, Ana Antonio Lozano, Las cenizas de Bagdad (The Gavín Martín and Gema Martín Muñoz. ashes of Baghdad). With the participation of Madrid, November 17th. Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla and Malika Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, El Corán y el futuro Embarek. Madrid, June 9th. del islam (The Koran and the future of Islam). Presentation of the monograph on Qatar by With the participation of Juan José Tamayo, the journal Hesperia. Culturas del Raimund Herder and Gema Martín Muñoz. Mediterráneo (Hesperia. Cultures of the Madrid, November 18th. Mediterranean). With the participation of Ignacio Álvarez-Ossorio, Siria contemporá- María Jesús Viguera Molins, Juan Martos nea (Contemporary Syria). With the participa- Quesada and Salman Nabit al-Khulaifi. tion of Alberto Ucelay and Teresa Aranguren. Madrid, June 23rd. Madrid, December 3rd. José Luis Gómez Puyuelo, La República pre- Rabih Alameddine, El contador de historias toriana: ejército y poder político en Argelia (The Teller of Tales). With the participation of (1954-1978) [The Praetorian Republic: army Ignacio Padilla. Guadalajara (Mexico), and political power in Algeria (1954-1978)]. December 3rd. With the participation of Rafael Bustos and Laurence Thieux. Madrid, September 29th. Rabih Alameddine, Maram Al Masri and Karim Hauser, A thousand and one senses: Andrée Maalouf, La cocina libanesa de ayer y novels and poetry in the contemporary Arab de hoy (Lebanese cooking yesterday and world). Guadalajara (Mexico), December 4th. today). Madrid, September 29th. María Rosa de Madariaga, Abd-el-Krim el Omar Ben Yúsuf. El diván de las gacelas (The Jatabi: la lucha por la independencia (Abd-el- divan for gazelles). With the participation of Krim el Jatabi: The struggle for independen- Pablo Beneito and Luce López-Baralt. ce). With the participation of Javier Reading of poems with musical accompani- Valenzuela. Madrid, December 9th. ment by Wafir S. Gibril and Eduardo Paniagua. Madrid, October 13th. Los árabes en América Latina: historia de una emigración (Arabs in Latin America: history of La mar de llibres per endinsar-se en el món an emigration) (multiple authors). With the par- àrab. Guia de lectura (Sea of books to delve ticipation of Hamurabi Noufouri and Manuel deeper into the Arab world. Reading guide). Piñeiro. Granada, December 10th. With the participation of Senén Florensa, Dolors Bramon, Theodor Loinaz and Isaías Los árabes en América Latina: historia de una Barreñada. Barcelona, October 13th. emigración (Arabs in Latin America: history of an emigration) (multiple authors); Presentation of the collection of educational Contribuciones árabes a las identidades ibero- DVDs Conoce el espíritu Nexos (Get to know americanas (Arab contributions to Latin the Nexos spirit). With the participation of American identities) (multiple authors); Federico Mayor Zaragoza, José María Luxán Influencia árabe en las letras iberoamericanas Menéndez, María Victoria Gonzalez Román, (Arab influence on Latin American writing). Gema Martín Muñoz and Enrique Gaspar With the participation of Hamurabi Noufouri, Rodríguez. Madrid, October 29th. Fernando García Casas, Sergio Macías Mustapha El Hor (coord.), Actas del coloquio Brevis and Gema Martín Muñoz. Madrid, Madariaga and Dolores Oliver Dolores and Madariaga sobre España, Marruecos y la mar December 16th. de Rosa María Embarek, Malika Zayd, Abu Nasr Aranguren, Teresa Chaib, Mohamed Golayyel, Abu Hamdi al-Ramli, Mohsen Assir, Serene right: to left and bottom to top From

Casa Árabe 2009 117 118 Recent Publications Casa Árabe’s Library

Luis Fayad, Milton Hatoum, Farid Kahhat, María del Mar Logroño, Carlos Martínez Assad, Rosa-Isabel Martínez Lillo, Rigoberto Menéndez, Hamurabi Noufouri, Camila Pastor, Paulo Hilu Pinto, Oswaldo Truzzi, María del Musulmanes en España. Guía Pilar Vargas and Zidane Zeraoui. 20 s de referencia / Muslims in Spain. A reference guide The second volume on the imprint of Arab s migrations in the Americas is the result of the Gema Martín Muñoz (dir.) 8,30 seminar organised by Casa Árabe and the One of the first outcomes of our Western Ibero-American Secretariat General (SEGIB) in Muslims work line is this guide, published in November, 2008, in Rio de Janeiro to analy- Spanish and English. It is the result of Casa se this reality with the most outstanding spe- Árabe’s collaboration with the Office for cialists in the subject. Thus, the authors of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights the work give us, from a range of different (ODIHR) of the Organisation for Security standpoints and approaches, a study of the and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Casa Los árabes en América Latina. contributions Arab-Ibero-Americans have Árabe has prepared the first in a series of Historia de una emigración. made in their respective nations from their specific reference guides on the reality of (Arabs in Latin America. History arrival to the present. The epilogue by Luis Muslims citizens in the OSCE region. The of an emigration) Fayad, a Colombian, and Milton Hatoum, a series, an initiative of the ODIHR, is aimed Abdeluahed Akmir (coord.). (Joint publication Brazilian, both writers of Arab origin, consti- at encouraging a greater understanding of s Consecuencias económicas y with Siglo XXI de España). 20 tutes a golden clasp to conclude this rese- the diversity of the Muslim communities ecológicas de los conflictos en This volume is an enlarged and updated edition arch effort led by Casa Árabe. living in the OSCE region and offers a more el mundo árabe (Economic and of the original book in Arabic published in 2006 contextualised image of their cultures, lives environmental consequences by the Arab Unity Study Centre in Beirut, under Both volumes were presented on December and contributions to society. Under the 10th, 2009, at the Euro-Arab Institute for supervision of Gema Martín Muñoz, this of conflicts in the Arab world) the editorial direction of the Moroccan historian Jad Isaac, Marwan Iskandar, Habib Ayeb, Khalid Education and Training Foundation, with its guide includes contributions from specia- Abdeluahed Akmir. The six countries of South Muhammad Khalid, Fouad Abdelmoumni and headquarters in Granada. The participants in lists in diverse disciplines on Islam, history America studied in the Arabic edition have been Hassan Partow. 19 s expanded with another seven countries from the event were Hamurabi Noufouri (director of and its contemporary dynamics in Spain Central America and the Caribbean in order to the Master’s Programme in Cultural Diversity (Elena Arigita Maza, Marian Hens, Iván In the first quarter of the year, Casa Árabe show a more complete overview of Latin at the “Tres de Febrero” National University Jiménez- Aybar, Amira Kedier, Eduardo published Consecuencias económicas y ecoló- America. There is also an analysis, in global (Argentina) and author of one of the chapters), Manzano, Jordi Moreras, Rafael Ortega gicas de los conflictos en el mundo árabe, the terms, of the factors that drove the Arabs from Manuel Piñeiro (director of the Euro-Arab Rodrigo, Virtudes Téllez and Rocío result of the series of lectures held with the same the Middle East to emigrate to Latin America, as Institute for Education and Training Vázquez Martí). Musulmanes en España. name the previous year, containing the texts of well as their general process of settlement and Foundation) and Karim Hauser (coordinator of Guía de referencia is a practical manual to the six experts giving the lectures (Hassan integration in Latin American society. Casa Árabe’s American Arabia programme). approach the diversity and plurality of Partow, Habib Ayeb, Jad Isaac, Marwan Muslim communities, at the same time as it Iskandar, Khalid Muhammad Khalid and Fouad The presentation in Madrid also took place in reveals and alerts to the stereotypes affec- Abdelmoumni) together with documentation December, during the first part of the events ting this collective. and analytical apparatus on the subject prepa- devoted to Arabs in both Americas (December red by Casa Árabe’s Socioeconomic 16th to 18th). The goal was to stress the his- The presentation of the book in Spain took Programme. tory of the emigration of Arabs to Spanish place on April 20th at the headquarters of America and to disseminate these findings Casa Árabe and included the presence of the The book’s presentation took place in the frame- through the two volumes cited. The presenta- Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Ángel work of a round table on the use of cluster tion included the participation of Gema Martín Lossada, the Secretary of State for bombs in southern Lebanon and its consequen- Muñoz (director general of Casa Árabe-IEAM), Immigration and Emigration, Consuelo Rumí, ces on the economy, especially agriculture, in Fernando García Casas (office director to the the director of the ODIHR, Ambassador Janez the region, starting from the prize awarded by Ibero-American Secretary General), Hamurabi Lenarc˘ic˘, director of ODIHR, Mohammed the UNHCR to the team at the United Nations Noufouri (director of the Master’s Programme Chaib, Member of the Regional Parliament of Mine Action Coordination Centre in Southern in Cultural Diversity at the “Tres de Febrero” Catalonia, and Gema Martín Muñoz, director Lebanon (UNMACC-SL) and the legislation National University, Argentina) and Sergio general of Casa Árabe. enacted internationally on these matters. During Macías Brevis (author of the book entitled the presentation, which took place at Casa Ára- Influencia árabe en las letras iberoamericanas This book was also presented by the director be’s headquarters in Madrid, there were contri- Contribuciones árabes a las [Arab influence on Latin American writing]. general of Casa Árabe at the Second Forum of butions from the Greenpeace and InspirAction identidades iberoamericanas This latest work, also recently published by the the Alliance for Civilisations, organised in NGOs and the projection of the documentary (Arab contributions to Ibero - International University of Andalusia, UNIA, Istanbul on April 6th and 7th, and at the OSCE’s Fields of Fire: Cluster bombs in Lebanon by the American identities) contributes another dimension, a literary yearly Human Dimension Implementation Integrated Regional Information Networks Lorenzo Agar, Horacio Cagni, Darío Euraque, dimension, to this vast subject). Meeting in Warsaw, on October 5th. (IRIN), a United Nations agency.

Casa Árabe 2009 119 120 Recent Publications RECENT PUBLICATIONS Casa Árabe Joint publications 2009

The anatomy of melancholy. Selfati (With Maragall)

Periodical publications

Otros mesopotámicos raros: antología de El Magreb y sus fronteras en el mar: con- la última poesía iraquí (Other odd flictos de delimitación y propuestas de Mesopotamians: anthology of the latest solución (The Maghreb and its maritime Iraqi poetry borders: conflicts of demarcation and pro- Abdul Hadi Sadoun (ed.). (with “Juan de posed solutions). Víctor Luis Gutiérrez Mairena y de libros”) 20 s Castillo. (With Huygens) 20 s

Boletín de economía y negocios de Casa â«ÑdG Iô°ûæd á«Hô©dG áî°ùædG Árabe (Casa Árabe Economics and ∫ÉªYC’Gh OÉ°üàbÓd ≈Hô©dG Business Newsletter) [Arabic edition of the Casa Árabe Economics Issue 10 (December-January), 11 (March- and Business Newsletter]. Issue 10 April), 12 (May-June), 13 (July-August), 14 (December-January), 11 (March-April), 12 (September-October) and 15 (November- (May-June), 13 (July-August), 14 (September- December). Free of charge. October) and 15 (November-December). Free of charge. Bagdad. Hanoos (Baghdad. Hanoos) Los moriscos: conflicto, expulsión y diáspora (With Orense Provincial Council) 10 s (Moriscos: conflict, expulsion and diaspora) Luis F. Bernabé Pons. (With “Los Libros de la Catarata”) 16 s

Espacios de papel. Said Messari (Paper Queremos la paz: palabras y dibujos con- Atalaya sociopolítica de Casa Árabe (Casa Notas Socioeconómicas (Socioeconomic spaces. Said Messari) tra la violencia (We want Peace. Words Árabe Sociopolitical Watchtower) notes) With the Cervantes Institute) 15 s and drawings against violence) Issue 4 (January-February), 5 (March-April), 6 Issue 7: The global economic crisis. Impact (With the Association of Young Muslims in (June-July), 7 (September-October) and 8 and consequences on the Arab world s Madrid) 10 (November-December). Free of charge. (October). Free of charge.

Casa Árabe 2009 121 Recent Publications 122 Exhibition catalogues RECENT PUBLICATIONS Casa Árabe

2009

Space + aliens. Artistas españoles en Jerusalén a principios del siglo XX. Emiratos Árabes Unidos (Space + aliens. Patrimonio y cultura (Jerusalem at the Spanish artists in the United Arab Emirates) beginning of the 20th century. Heritage and culture). 17 s

Memoria de Annual Report 2008 2008 á£°ûfCG Iôcòe actividades 2008 Free of charge

Nosotros: un álbum colectivo del barrio de Lavapiés (Us: a collective album of the Lavapiés neighbourhood). Casa Árabe’s Documents 20 s Reading guides

Iniciativas de reforma judicial en la región euromediterránea. Informe de la Red Euromediterránea de Derechos Humanos (Judicial reform Initiatives in the Euro-Mediterranean region. Report by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network). Siân Lewis-Anthony. Free of charge. Mil y un libros para asomarse al mundo La mar de llibres per endinsar-se en el árabe. Guía de lectura 09 (A Thousand món àrab. Guia de lectura (A sea of books and one books to delve into the Arab for glancing at the Arab world. Reading World. Reading guide 2009). guide). (Published jointly with the IEMed). Casa Árabe’s working papers Free of charge. Free of charge.

Issue 5. Inmigrantes y musul- Case of the Caliphate State manes: exclusión e integra- of Cemaleddin Kaplan. Werner DVD ción en el nuevo medio Schiffauer. Free of charge. (Immigrants and Muslims: exclusion and integration in Issue 7. El Yemen, entre la the new medium). Joan integración política y la espi- Lacomba. Free of charge. ral de la (contra) violencia (Yemen, between political Expulsados 1609. La tragedia de los moriscos. (Expelled 1609. The Issue 6. Radicalización islámi- integration and the spiral of Tragedy of the Moriscos). Film and documentary series commemora- ca: el caso del Estado Califal (counter-)violence). ting the 4th centenary of the expulsion of the Moriscos. Languages: de Cemaleddin Kaplan / François Burgat and Laurent Spanish and Catalan. Subtitles: Arabic, English and French. Muslim Radicalisation: The Bonnefoy. Free of charge. 19,95 s

Casa Árabe 2009 123 TOGETHER WITH THE PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY CASA ÁRABE, COOPERATION WITH OTHER INSTITUTIONS IS ONE OF ITS KEY VOCATIONS IN ORDER TO BOOST NETWORKING At the national level, we have University of Amsterdam undertaken programmes in colla- Viadrina European University (Frankfort on the boration with: Oder) Autonomous University in Madrid (UAM) Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO, Berlin) Diplomatic School British Council IE Business School Spanish cultural centres in Miami, El Salvador, National Distance Learning University (UNED) Guatemala and Honduras Club de Madrid Honduran Institute for Anthropology and History European Mediterranean Institute (IEMed) (IHAH) Cidob Foundation The College of Mexico University of Córdoba (UCO) International University of Andalusia (UNIA) Menéndez Pelayo International University In the Arab region, activities and (UIMP) programmes have been arranged Madinat al-Zahra Centre with: Euro-Arab Institute for Education and Qatar Foundation Training Foundation Saint-Joseph University in Beirut Araguaney Culture Bridge Foundation Lebanese University Straits University School (AUE) of the Emirates Foundation University of Cádiz Gulf Research Center University of Burgos University of Birzeit in Ramallah Centre for Economic and Commercial French Middle East Institute (IFPO) in Studies (CECO) Damascus Arab Reform Initiative (ARI) in Beirut French Biblical and Archaeological School Internationally, Casa Árabe has (EBAF) jointly organised activities with: Sharjah Biennal The Middle East Programme of the United Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem (ARIJ) World Economic Forum (WEF) Social Research Center of the American Office for Democratic Institutions and Human University in Cairo Rights of the Organisation for Security and Cervantes Institutes in Morocco and Syria Cooperation in Europe (ODIHR-OSCE) Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB) French Institute for International Relations (IFRI) University of California in Berkeley Network of Excellence for Human Sciences Research Centres in the Mediterranean (Ramses2) Cervantes Institute in New York University of Utrecht

Casa Árabe 2009 125 12 Press and communications JULIO 01 02 03 0404 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 calendario de actividades de calendario 09 6 During 2009, Casa Árabe’s Press and Communications Office increased its actions MAD Del 1 al 2 de julio observatorio socioeconómico aimed at making the general public more El agua en el mundo árabe: percepción global y realidades locales Casa Árabe organiza este Seminario Internacional, dirigido por Habib Ayeb, maître de aware of the institution’s activities. conférences en la Universidad París 8 Saint-Denis e investigador asociado del Social Research Center de la Universidad Americana de El Cairo.

Durante dos días se analizará y debatirá sobre un aspecto clave para el desarrollo social y económico del mundo árabe: el agua. Catorce expertos internacionales presentarán, The new web site of Casa Árabe en varias sesiones temáticas, sus investigaciones sobre distintos aspectos relacionados con la competición, gestión y uso de los recursos hídricos en una serie de países y regiones árabes, incluyendo Argelia, Egipto, países del Consejo de Cooperación del (www.casaarabe.es) was launched in 2009. Golfo, Iraq, Jordania, Marruecos, Palestina, Sudán, Túnez y Yemen. Lugar: Auditorio de Casa Árabe en Madrid (c/ Alcalá, 62). Since the start of the year, work continued on Hora: Miércoles 1 de julio de 09:00 a 13:30 y de 15:00 a 18:30 horas, y jueves 2 de julio de 10:00 a 13:30 horas. Entrada previa inscripción. the design and architecture of a new, faster Inscripción: Por correo electrónico ([email protected]) o por teléfono (91 563 06 52). and more extensive modern web site that MAD Del 1 al 6 de julio came on-line at the end of October. The new Semana cultural del Líbano

site, created with a view to becoming a portal Casa Árabe dedica una semana al Líbano para dar a conocer diversas manifestaciones centralising the various mini-sites of Casa culturales del rico y plural patrimonio del país. Miércoles 1 de julio: Recital bilingüe de poesía, con el escritor libanés Henri Zoghaib, poeta y prosista, fundador de la asociación cultural y de la revista poética L´Odyssée. Árabe (media library, documentation centre Zoghaib ha sido articulista y responsable de temas culturales de varias publicaciones libanesas, y tiene publicados cinco poemarios, uno de los cuales está en vías de and the Muslims of the West programme), is publicarse en España. Lugar: Auditorio de Casa Árabe en Madrid (c/ Alcalá, 62). visually more attractive and dynamic, allowing Hora: 20:30 horas. Entrada libre. Miércoles 1 de julio: Degustación de gastronomía libanesa. A través de esta degus- users to adapt it to their own preferences and tación, Casa Árabe acerca a España la enorme riqueza y diversidad de las costumbres culinarias de los libaneses y su gran variedad de especialidades. Además, se conocerán las similitudes y diferencias con la comida mediterránea. requirements. In addition, its content can be Lugar: Jardín de Casa Árabe en Madrid (c/ Alcalá, 62). Hora: 21:30 horas. Entrada con invitación. easily exported to social networks (such as Recogida de invitaciones: El martes 30 de junio en la sede de Casa Árabe en Madrid (c/ Alcalá, 62), de 10:00 a 14:00 y de 16:00 a 19:00 horas.

Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Delicious, Jueves 2 de julio: Conversación con el escritor y periodista libanés Elias Khouri, destacado intelectual árabe, profesor visitante en la Universidad de Nueva York, redactor among others), thus enabling visitors to the jefe de la sección cultural del diario An-Nahar, y autor de varias novelas, entre ellas la recientemente traducida La cueva del sol (Alfaguara, 2009). Lugar: Auditorio de Casa Árabe en Madrid (c/ Alcalá, 62). page, if they so wish, to share the information Hora: 20:00 horas. Entrada libre.

about Casa Árabe’s activities with their group Viernes 3 de julio: Proyección de la película El último hombre, de Ghassan Salhab (Líbano/Francia, 2006). Cada mañana, Beirut se despierta con una nueva víctima de lo que parece un asesino en serie. Las víctimas son halladas sin sangre en su cuerpo. En la of friends. In this way, Casa Árabe’s web site, misma ciudad, Khalil, un médico de 40 años de edad, comienza a sentir unos síntomas ce. anómalosWith que a le desestabilizarándistribution y terminarán ofpor cambiar 10,000 su vida. Una copies extraña in between January 1st and December 31st, conexión vinculará a Khalil con esas víctimas y con su escurridizo asesino. 2009,Lugar: the Auditorio Calendar de Casa Árabe en Madrid of (c/ Casa Alcalá, 62). Árabe’s activities received 143,681 visits from 82,443 unique Hora: 19:30 horas. Proyección en versión original subtitulada en español. Entrada libre. is sentSábado 4out de julio: to Concierto everyone del grupo Nahawand requesting. El conjunto fue creado it, por Nouhadeither visitors, representing an increase of 30% with Akiki, intérprete de kanun, y todos sus integrantes son profesores del Conservatorio throughSuperior dethe Música deforms Beirut. Su repertorio available es muy amplio eat incluye the música clásicavenues respect to the previous year. árabe, música tradicional o folklórica, y obras conocidas de grandes compositores contemporáneos. wherLugar:e Jardínactivities de Casa Árabe en Madridtake (c/ Alcalá,place, 62). or else through Hora: 21:30 horas. Entrada libre. the electronic form available for the purpose The figures are even better if the comparison Lunes 6 de julio: Concierto de Rabih Abou-Khalil trío. Rabih Abou Khalil se ha asentado como compositor de vanguardia y ha conseguido crear un lenguaje propio e integrar el on thecuarteto institution’s de cuerdas en la música árabe.web Sus composicionessite. se estructuran con frecuencia is limited to only the last two months of the sobre una rítmica de jazz contemporáneo, apoyada en el batería estadounidense Jarrod Cagwin, y en el acordeonista italiano Luciano Biondini. year, when the new version of the Casa Árabe Lugar: Jardín de Casa Árabe en Madrid (c/ Alcalá, 62). Hora: 21:30 horas. Entrada libre. web site was on line. In November and This calendar is complemented by the digi- tal newsletter Novedades (Latest news) that December, 2009, it received 22,980 visitors JAÉN Del 9 de junio al 5 de julio exposiciones who consulted a total of 82,441 pages, an providesEspaña y el anmundo update árabe: un siglo everyde relaciones Friday políticas en imágeneson what activitiesEsta exposición, are integrada porbeing 148 fotografías organised extraídas del archivo de laby agencia Casa Efe, increase, in only two months, of 10% with recoge los momentos más importantes de las relaciones de España con los países árabes entre los años 1912 y 2007. ÁrabeLugar: Centroover Cultural the Palacio denext Villardompardo seven de Jaén (Pza. days, Santa Luisa deas Marillac, well s/n). as respect to the previous year. Hora: De martes a sábados de 9:00 a 21:30 horas, domingos de 9:00 a 15:00 horas. Cerrado lunes givingy festivos. information Entrada libre. about any new books or These actions in favour of better communica- videos published and links to other events ofCÓR interDel 2 est.al 3 de julio cursos tion include the publication of a monthly Iniciación a la música andalusí calendar setting out all the activities and pro- En este curso para aficionados y profesionales, dirigido por Luis Delgado, se estudiarán las fuentes iconográficas y documentales de la música andalusí. Además se desgrana- In addition,rán las claves de susCasa estructuras Árabe y se detallarán has sus instrumentos, strengthened con un apartado its grammes so as to provide detailed informa- especial a los puntos comunes y diferenciales entre el laúd árabe y la guitarra. presenceLugar: Gran Teatro on de Córdobathe (Avda.social Gran Capitán, networks 3). by creating tion about them with plenty of time in advan- Hora: De 10:00 a 14:00 horas. 20 plazas previa inscripción. its ownInscripción: page 25 euros (incluye on entrada Facebook, a concierto de Rabih Abou-Khalil). where www.guitarracordoba.com it already has over half a thousand followers, and on CÓR Domingo 5 de julio música Twitter.Concierto It dehas Rabih Abou-Khalilalso set up its own canal on Youtube,Casa Árabe participa,where por tercerit is año possibleconsecutivo, en el Festival to view de la Guitarra some de of Córdoba, organizando el concierto del músico libanés Rabih Abou-Khalil, uno de los más reputados instrumentistas del oud (laúd árabe). the institution’sLugar: Gran Teatro de Córdoba most (Avda. Gran significant Capitán, 3). videos. Hora: 21:00 horas. Entrada: 7 euros. Disponibles en las taquillas del Gran Teatro y en Uniticket (902 360 295). During 2009, it has also increased the num- berMAD ofDel 6activities al 9 de julio directly targeting journalists,cursos Curso de iniciación a la caligrafía árabe

withEl calígrafomore Ricardo press Vicente Placed conferences. ofrecerá estos cursos de iniciaciónFor a example,la caligrafía árabe basados en sesiones prácticas. Para inscribirse no se necesitan conocimientos Casaprevios Árabe de lengua o dehosted escritura árabe. the media presentation Lugar: Sede de Casa Árabe en Madrid (c/ Alcalá, 62). Hora: De 18:00 a 21:00 horas. 20 plazas previa inscripción. of MusulmanesInscripción: Hasta el 30 de junio en por teléfono España. (91 563 06 52) oGuía correo electrónico de referencia ([email protected]).(Muslims in Spain. A reference guide). Much emphasis has been placed on the dis- BUR Del 6 al 9 de julio cursos seminationMundo árabe e ofislámico: this realidades volume políticas yintended, dinámicas sociales among

Casa Árabe y la Universidad de Burgos organizan este curso introductorio a las realidades sociopolíticas del mundo árabo-islámico contemporáneo, con la participación de ponentes procedentes de distintas disciplinas. Lugar: Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales de la Universidad de Burgos (Pza. Casa Árabe 2009 127 Infanta Doña Elena, s/n). Más información: Teléfonos: 947 25 80 80/32; correo electrónico ([email protected]) y en www.ubu.es Press and communications SUBSCRIPTIONS ESPAÑOL CONTACT 128 RSSwww.casaarabe.es PRESS AND COMMUNICATIONS ABOUT AGENDA ARABIC LANGUAGE CENTER NEWS IEAM PUBLICATIONS RECORDS CASA ÁRABE TV GOVERNING BODIES ADVISORY BOARDS HEADQUARTERS TEAM ANNUAL REPORT Casa Árabe others, for journalists, since it contains headquarters of Casa Árabe in Madrid, where abundant, rigorous information about the he addressed those present. WATER IN THE ARAB WORLD 2009 situation of the Muslim community in our Casa Árabe is to organise an international seminar about Water country. In support of this research work on During 2009, one of the activities requiring the in the Arab world: global perceptions and local realities directed by Habib Ayeb, conference director at the University of the situation of Muslims in Spain and largest number of communication actions Paris 8 Saint Denis and associate researcher of the Social Europe, Casa Árabe also hosted the first was the launch of the fictional documentary Research Center of the American University of El Cairo. press conference in Europe for the presenta- Expulsados 1609. La tragedia de los moris- Over two days, 14 international experts will analyse and debate tion of the report on Muslims in the EU Data cos (Expelled 1609. The Tragedy of the the issue of Water: a crucial element for social and economic in Focus 2 – Muslims, with the presence of Moriscos), a project of Casa Árabe for the 4th development in the Arab world. Ioannis Dimitrakopoulos, head of the centenary of this historic event. This launch Department of Equality and Citizens’ Rights was accompanied by the creation of a speci- From 25th September to 30th October at the European Union’s Fundamental Rights fic web site (www.expulsados1609.com) pro- CASA ÁRABE’S CALENDAR SEPT. 2009 Agency (FRA). viding full information about the project, with NEWS an exclusive media download area where Al-Sadeq al-Mahdi Muslims in Spain In collaboration with the Alianza Editorial journalists could retrieve images and docu- conference Casa Árabe is to publish the book publishing house, Casa Árabe also organi- ments. On April 28th, in addition, an exclusive The former prime minister of Sudan, Muslims in Spain, a reference guide, sed the media presentation of El desajuste showing of the film was organised for the al-Sadeq al-Mahdi, gives a revealing the diversity of Muslim conference in Casa Árabe entitled: communities resident in our del mundo. Cuando las civilizaciones se ago- media at the institution’s headquarters in What future awaits European-Arab country. relations? tan (The mismatch of the world. When our Madrid, followed by a press conference with 15th September 2009 civilisations are exhausted), the latest work the participation of the film’s director, Miguel First session Syrian cinema series. by Amin Maalouf to be translated into López Lorca, as well as the actors Ana SEARCH NEWS AND EVENTS Spanish. The Lebanese writer held inter- Alonso, Fernando Guillén and Juli Fàbregas. Text views with the media at our headquarters in This event took place prior to the public pre- Amin Maalouf Casa Árabe’s library delete search Madrid, which was also useful to help many view, which was later the same day at the The Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf Casa Árabe’s library has published Advanced Search journalists specialising in publications to Zarzuela Theatre in Madrid. The dissemina- presents at Casa Árabe his new Economic and environmental become more familiar with Casa Árabe’s tion of this project has culminated in the book, The mismatch of world. When consequences of conflicts in the RELATED SITES our civilisations get exhausted. Arab world, a compendium of Bookstand programme. publication of a DVD containing, apart from conferences given during a course Documentation Center the feature film, another three short documen- of the same title. The presentation of the Raks Dance Festival, taries on the lives, figures and geography of Media Library the launch of the latest record by Valderrama, the Moriscos, and information that the Casa the announcement of the Córdoba Guitar Árabe press and communications office has Visit of Queen Rania of Jordan Muslims in the West Festival, with which Casa Árabe has been published through conventional routes (both Queen Rania of Jordan visited Casa Árabe in Madrid during CASA ÁRABE’S NEWSLETTERS collaborating for several years, and the pre- on the web site and through the social net- her official visit to Spain. Her Majesty met the Director General of Casa Árabe, Gema Martín Muñoz, and they Boletín de economía miere in Madrid of the Qatar Symphony, an works where the institution is present). visited together the exhibition City of Mirage. Baghdad, from y negocios event jointly organised by Casa Árabe, were Wright to Venturi. de Casa Árabe They also studied possible channels of collaboration Atalaya Sociopolítica other activities for which Casa Árabe called Over and above these actions, the communi- between the Spanish institution and the Hashemite kingdom. de Casa Árabe and hosted press conferences. cations area has continued with the dissemi- de Casa Árabe nation of all the institution’s activities, whether VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS Casa Árabe’s Press Office was also involved held in Madrid and Córdoba or anywhere else ARABELE The Storyteller in activities to support and disseminate the in Spain, by means of specific mailings targe- Congress 2009 On 11 May, Casa Árabe and the visit by the president of the Republic of ting either the general public or media profes- Casa Árabe hosted ARABELE publisher Random House Lebanon, General Michel Sleiman, to the sionals. 2009 in September, the first Mondadori will launch the book The international congress on the Hakawati (Storyteller) by the teaching of Arabic held in Spain Lebanese author Rabih Alameddine for 50 years. at Casa Árabe in Madrid.

Festival in Cordoba Arab Cosmovisions. PHE. 09 Casa Árabe will organise for the third consecutive year one of the Casa Árabe participates in concerts of the Cordoba Guitar PHotoEspaña 09 with the Festival, with a performance by exhibition Arab Cosmovisions Rabih Abou-Khalil from Lebanon. where five Arab artists show their views of reality and their particular interpretation of the world.

Casa Árabe 2009 129 Press Press conference for the presentation of Data in Focus 2-Muslims

Casa Árabe Raquel Mallouh Verdeal MADRID HEADQUARTERS Media Library Assistant Gema Martín Muñoz Khadija Douieb Díaz Director General Cultural Programmes Assistant Sergio Vidueira Martínez Maribel Gálvez Casado Manager Personal Assistant Director General and General Archive Cristina Pensado Banet Executive Adviser Nadia Makki Hornedo Secretary to the Director General’s office Isaías Barreñada Bajo Coordinator of Educational Programmes and Irene González Blanco Publications Administrative Assistant Nuria Medina García Almudena Rubio Gálvez Coordinator of Cultural Programmes Administrative Assistant Management Olivia Orozco de la Torre Naglaa Abd El Monem Coordinator of Socioeconomic and Business Administrative Assistant Socioeconomic and Programme Educational Programmes Tamim El Dalati Huguet Irene Quintana Suárez Press Officer Administrative Assistant Culture and Tribunes Karim Hauser Askalani Arabia Americana Programme Jaime López Francisco Media Library CÓRDOBA HEADQUARTERS Nuria Torres Santo Domingo Gema Martín Muñoz Documentation Centre Director General Rafael Marcos Gómez Víctor Luis Gutiérrez Castillo Management Associate Institutional and Academic Relations Jumana Trad Yunes Rafael Santiago Reyes Seminars and Tribunes (Logistics) Management and Human Resources Daniel Gil Flores Rafael Ortega Rodrigo Associate Educational Programmes and Senior Researcher Publications Elena Arigita Maza Ana Isabel González Santamaría Senior Researcher Associate Socioeconomic and Business Programme Rocío Vázquez Martí Researcher Elena González González Associate Cultural Programmes Amira Kedier Researcher Paula Santillán Grimm Associate Arabic Language Centre Francisco Javier Rosón Lorente Researcher Javier Lesaca Esquiroz Research Assistant at the Socioeconomic Mariló Sancho Velázquez Casa Árabe Observatory Seminars and Tribunes (Logistics) 2009 Annual Report Ruth Pimentel Touya Rosario Carrasco Pérez The present report is available on Press Office Assistant Administrative Assistant www.casaarabe.es Published by Casa Árabe Yolanda Rodríguez Ramírez Translation by Edward Ewing Management Assistant Designed by rez Printed by Rotosa M’hani Belrhrib El Hamdouni Educational Programmes Assistant Date of publication September 2010 Legal deposit nº M-38989-2010 Madrid Alcalá, 62. 28009 Madrid Tel.: +34 91 563 30 66 Fax: +34 91 563 30 24 Córdoba Martínez Rucker, 9. 14003 Córdoba Tel.: +34 957 498 413 Fax: +34 957 478 025 www.casaarabe.es www.casaarabe.es ANNUAL REPORT 2009