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Maquetación 1

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CONTENTS 3
4 LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
6 LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR GENERAL
8 GOVERNING BODIES
9 DIPLOMATIC BOARD
10 HIGH BOARD OF TRUSTEES
12 ADVISORY BOARD
14 PUBLIC DIPLOMACY
24 CASA ÁRABE’S INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE
OF ARAB AND MUSLIM WORLD STUDIES
40 THE TRIBUNE. LECTURES AND ROUND TABLES
42 THE BOOKSTAND. BOOK LAUNCHES AND DEBATES
44 EDUCATION AND ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN
46 AMERICAN ARABIA
50 THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS
56 CINEMA
58 EXHIBITIONS
60 SINGULAR PROGRAMMES
64 CASA ÁRABE’S SERVICES
68 PUBLICATIONS
74 PRESS AND COMMUNICATION
76 TEAM
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4 LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
Headquarters of Casa Árabe in Madrid.
Trinidad Jiménez García-Herrera
Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation
Once more, Casa Árabe presents its annual report on its activities as an essential part of the
relations between Spain and the Arab world. It is therefore a source of great satisfaction to
prologue this publication. Since its beginnings in 2006, Casa Árabe has followed an outstanding
course that has allowed it to consolidate its position as a landmark institution both in Spain
and abroad. The informative nature of its activities, the contents of its programmes and its
commitment to research and the promotion of the awareness of Arab and Spanish culture
and societies have together achieved considerable progress in its goal to strengthen and
deepen the permanent interchange between our civil societies.
Spain is a country marked by cultural encounters. Our shared past and the willingness to
tighten our ties with the Arab world have found in Casa Árabe a privileged forum in which
the relevant players from political, social, cultural and economic life have been able to set
out their projects, ideas and hopes. This dialogue between civil societies forms part of a
wide-ranging view of international relations aimed at encouraging the creation of dynamic
spaces for the exchange and shared viewpoints necessary to forge a common future.
During 2010, Casa Árabe has contributed most significantly to this project, together with its
International Institute of Arab and Muslim World Studies, the seminars held on development
and strategic co-operation, the meetings of experts and the exchange of expertise through
the organization of international fora and congresses.
Nonetheless, these efforts have reaped success thanks to the active participation of the citizenry
itself, which has received and enthusiastically taken part in the activities organized. Similarly, this
joint project of the various social, political and economic agents is a path that will contribute day
by day to the consolidation of a goal shared by all: the advancement of stability, peace and
development in the area.
Furthermore, I should like to take this opportunity to congratulate all the institutions forming
part of the public consortium behind Casa Árabe, and most particularly the Madrid City Hall
and the Regional Government of Madrid, as well as the Córdoba Town Hall and the Regional
Government of Andalusia. The co-ordinated work we have carried out at the Central,
Regional and Local Administrations is a fine example of institutional collaboration that
always obtains good results. This annual report is precisely the reflection of this excellent
co-operation and the need to generate work dynamics at the service of dialogue and
exchanges.
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6 LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR
GENERAL
Headquarters of Casa Árabe in Córdoba.
Gema Martín Muñoz
Director General
Casa Árabe is now a well-known and prestigious institution following four years of intense efforts
devoted to developing the three main action lines characterizing its activities: public diplomacy,
scientific dissemination and research.
During 2010, our institution has hosted many political figures from the Arab World and has
engaged in a diversity of actions across the Arab countries, thus consolidating the role of bridge
and mediator it plays between the Islamic world and the West. We have also strengthened the
scope of work devoted to economic public diplomacy, dedicating a substantial part of our
activities to promoting business and investment opportunities among Spanish entrepreneurs and
the economic players in the countries of North Africa and the Middle East. Together with the data
regularly provided by our Business and Economics Newsletter and our Socioeconomic Notes,
Casa Árabe has organized fora and meetings among Arabic and Spanish economic and business
delegations in order to increase awareness and facilitate the considerable investment potential
that exists between our country and Arab countries in all areas of the economy.
Attention should also be drawn this year, in the field of research and analysis, to the inauguration
of the Documentation Centre to provide a daily service for public access by researchers, students
and doctoral candidates. This has allowed Casa Árabe to meet its goal of providing Spanish society
with tools to understand the manifold Islamic and Arab realities. On top of the Media Library, the
Bookshop and the Language Centre, already in place in previous years, the Documentation Centre
is the latest addition crowning the network of public services specializing in Arabic and Islamic
matters, something not provided by any other European institution at the same time.
The multidisciplinary nature defining Casa Árabe has led us to deal with all the issues and subjects
of relevance affecting the Arabic and Islamic region. Arab political, social and cultural current
affairs have continued to hold a prominent place in our programme of activities, turning this
institution into an agora open for citizens’ participation to discuss, analyze and build bridges of
communication between Spanish society and Arab politicians, specialists and artists.
The value of networking has since the outset been another of the goals pursued by our institution,
in the conviction that working together and exchanging information enriches our activities and
makes them more dynamic. For this reason, there has been constant growth in the number of
centres, foundations, universities and institutions of many different kinds, both in Spain and abroad,
with which we have entered into agreements or jointly organized activities, seminars, exhibitions and
research projects. Through this collaboration, Casa Árabe also acts as a driving force behind
initiatives to break down the geographical limits of our headquarters and extend into other
geographies in Spain, Europe, America and the Arab world in order to be both local and global.
Last year closed with the awakening of major citizen movements. What is known as the Arab
World is undergoing a massive shake-up, leading to profound transformations in which many of
the previous parameters, both internal and international, are becoming outdated. An enormous
amount of work will be needed in the near future to deconstruct and rebuild institutions, both on
the part of the Arab citizenry and also of the international community. If Casa Árabe was before a
necessary institution to provide opportunities for exchange and contacts, analyses and
recommendations, now it is all the more so.
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DIPLOMATIC BOARD 9
8 GOVERNING BODIES
Meeting of the Governing Board of Casa Árabe.
GOVERNING BOARD
President
Trinidad Jiménez García-Herrera
Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation
Vice Presidents
José Antonio Griñán Martínez
President of the Regional Government of
Andalusia
Esperanza Aguirre Gil de Biedma
President of the Regional Government of
Madrid
Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón Jiménez
Mayor of Madrid
Andrés Ocaña Rabadán
Mayor of Cordoba
Members
Soraya Rodríguez Ramos
Secretary of State and President of the
Spanish Agency of International Cooperation
for Development
Juan Antonio Yáñez-Barnuevo
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and
Latin America
Diego López Garrido
Secretary of State for the European Union
Alfonso Lucini Mateo
Director General of Foreign Policy
Juan González-Barba
Director General of Foreign Policy for the
Mediterranean, Maghreb and Middle East
José Eugenio Salarich Fernández de
Valderrama
Director General of International Economic
Relations and Energy Affairs
Carlos Alberdi Alonso
Director of Cultural and Scientific
Relations
Carmen Moreno Raymundo
Director of Cooperation with Africa, Asia and
Eastern Europe
María del Mar Moreno Ruiz
Minister for the Presidency and
Spokesperson of the Regional Government of
Andalusia
Ignacio González González
Vice President, Minister for Culture and
Sports and Spokesman of the Regional
Government of Madrid
Ana María Román Martín
Councillor for Coordination of Studies and
External Relations of Madrid City Hall
Rafael Blanco Perea
First Deputy Mayor and Delegate for
Institutional 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
DIPLOMATIC BOARD
Moustapha Ahmed Noman
Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen
HRH Prince Saud Bin Naif Bin Abdelaziz AlSaud
Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ahmedou Ould Souilem
Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco
Zaid Al-Lozi
Ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom of
Jordan
Mohammed Haneche
Ambassador of the Democratic and Popular
Republic of Algeria
Musa Amer Odeh
Ambassador of Palestine
Adil Hamad M. Al Ayyar
Ambassador of the State of Kuwait
Sheikh Hilal Marhoon Salim Al Mamary
Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman
Mohammed Ridha Kechrid
Ambassador of the Republic of Tunisia
Hissa Abdulla Ahmed Al Otaiba
Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates
Hamad Bin Hamad Al-Ibrahim Al-Attiya
Ambassador of the State of Qatar
Hussam Edin Aala
Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Syria
Ziyad Khaled A. Ali
Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq
Ayman Abdulsamie Omar Zaineldin
Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Abdellahi Ould
Boye
Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of
Mauritania
Ambassador of the Popular Office of the
Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Mohamed Ahmed Tageldin
Chargé d’Affaires of the Republic of Sudan
Wissam Kalakeche
Chargé d’Affaires of the Republic of Lebanon
Hassine Bouzid
Office Director of the League of Arab States
10 HIGH BOARD OF TRUSTEES
UNDER THE HONORARY PRESIDENCY
OF THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN OF SPAIN
Ministry of Culture
Ángeles González-Sinde
Minister of Culture
Ministry of Education
Ángel Gabilondo Pujol
Minister of Education
Ministry of Industry,
Tourism and Trade
Miguel Sebastián Gascón
Minister of Industry, Tourism
and Trade
Abengoa
Felipe Benjumea Llorente
Chairman
Acciona
José Manuel Entrecanales
Domecq
Chairman
ACS Foundation
Antonio García Ferrer
Deputy Chairman
Agbar
Ángel Simón Grimaldos
Chairman
Altadis
Dominic Brisby
General Manager
Aresbank
Juan Carlos Montañola
Executive Chairman
Banco Marroquí de
Comercio Exterior
Radi Hamudeh
General Manager
Banco Santander
Antonio Escámez
Member of the Executive
Committee
CEOE (Spanish Confederation
of Employer’s Organizations)
Joan Rosell
Chairman
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CEPSA
Santiago Bergareche
Busquet
Chairman
Grespania
Luis Hernández
Sanchís
Chief Executive Officer
CEPYME (Spanish
Confederation of Small and
Medium Companies)
Jesús María Terciado
Chairman
High Board of Chambers of
Commerce
Manuel Teruel Izquierdo
Chairman
CESCE
Juan Badosa
Chairman
Comisiones Obreras
(Workers Commissions)
Ignacio Fernández Toxo
Secretary General
Dubai Port World
Mohammed Sharaf
Chief Executive Officer
Elecnor
Fernando Azaola Arteche
Chairman. Chief Executive
Officer
Extenda (Trade Promotion
Agency of Andalusia)
Teresa Sáez Carrascosa
General Director
FEMP (Spanish Federation
of Municipalities and
Provinces)
Pedro Castro Vázquez
Chairman
Fertiberia
Francisco J. de la Riva
Chairman
Gas Natural Fenosa
Salvador Gabarró Serra
Chairman
Godó Group
Javier Godó Muntañola
Chairman
Iberdrola
Ignacio Sánchez Galán
Chairman
ICEX (Spanish Institute for
Foreign Trade)
Alfredo Bonet Baiget
Chairman
IDB Group
Ahmed Mohamed Ali
Presidente
P4R, S.A.
Carmen Rodríguez Díaz
Chairwoman
Prisa Group
Ignacio Polanco
Chairman
Promomadrid
Jesús Sainz Muñoz
Chairman
Ramón Vizcaíno
Refrigeración
José Ramón Vizcaíno
Chairman
Repsol
Antonio Brufau Niubó
Chairman
Instituto Cervantes
Carmen Caffarel
Director
SGAE (Spanish Society of
Authors, Composers and
Publishers)
Chairman of the Board of
Directors
Joly Grup
José Joly Martínez de
Salazar
Chairman
Técnicas Reunidas
José Lladó
Fernández-Urrutia
Chairman
League of Arab States
Amr Musa
Secretary General
Unión General de
Trabajadores (General Union
of Workers)
Cándido Méndez
Secretary General
Mondragón
Josu Ugarte
Chairman Mondragón
Internacional
Unicaja
Braulio Medel Cámara
Presidente
Museo Nacional Centro
de Arte Reina Sofía
Manuel Borja-Villel
Director
Villar Mir Group
Juan Miguel Villar Mir
Chairman
OPEC Fund for International
Development
Suleiman J. Al-Herbish
Director General
Vocento Group
Santiago de Ybarra y
Churruca
Honorary Chairman
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12 ADVISORY BOARD
Cherif Abderrahman Jah
Chairman of the Foundation of Islamic
Culture
Ramón Enciso Bergé
Coordinator of the Spanish Group of the
Averroes Committee
José Abu-Tarbush
Professor of Sociology, University of La
Laguna
Thierry Fabre
Writer. Editor of the magazine “La Pensée du
Midi” and organiser of annual “Rencontres
d’Averroes” (Averroes Meetings) in Marseille
Jamal al-Suawaidi
Director General of The Emirates Center for
Strategic Studies and Research
Talal Asad
Anthropologist, New York University
Muhammed Barrada
Moroccan writer
Asef Bayat
Professor of Sociolgy and Middle East
Studies, University of Illinois
Emilio Casinello Aubán
Ambassador of Spain. Director General of
the Toledo International Centre for Peace
Mohammed Chaib
Chairman of the Ibn Batuta Sociocultural
Association and of the Federation of
Catalan Cultural Entities of Moroccan
Origin
Juan Cierco Jiménez de Parga
Director General of International Information,
Ministry of the Presidency
George Corm
Economist and sociologist. Former Finance
Minister of Lebanon. Professor at Saint
Joseph University of Beirut
Federico Corriente Córdoba
Professor of Arabic Language, Saragossa
University
Álvaro de Vasconcelos
Director of the European Union Institute for
Security Studies (EUISS)
Jorge Dezcallar de Mazarredo
Ambassador of Spain to the United States
Driss El Yazami
President of the National Human Rights
Council of Morocco
Alberto Elena
Professor of Film Studies, Carlos III
Malika Embarek López
Translator
Ghassan Finianos
Professor of Muslim Arab Philosophy,
Damascus University
Juan Goytisolo
Writer
José Guirao Cabrera
Director of La Casa Encendida Arts Centre
Juan Miguel Hernández León
Chairman of Madrid´s Fine Arts Circle
Haydar Ibrahim Ali
Director of the Centre for Sudanese Studies,
Khartoum
Saad Kettani
Chairman of Wafa Assurances. Member of
the Averroes Committee
Meeting of the Advisory Board of Casa Árabe.
Hamurabi Noufouri
Course Director of Arab, American-Arab and
Islamic Studies of the Third February
University, Argentina
Andrés Ortega
Director of the Analysis and Studies
Department. Prime Minister’s Office
Joaquín Ortega Salinas
Ambassador of Spain
Juan Antonio Pacheco Paniagua
Professor of Arab Studies, Seville
University
of the Centre of Studies and Research in
Social Sciences (CERES). Mohamed V
University of Rabat
Felipe Sahagún
Member of the Editorial Board of the daily EL
MUNDO. Professor of the Faculty of
Information Sciences, Complutense
Yezid Sayigh
Professor of Middle East Studies, King’s
College, London
Jerónimo Páez López
Director of Almed publishing house
Antoni Segura i Mas
Director of the Centre for International and
History Studies, Barcelona University
Maria Angustias Parejo Fernández
Professor of Political Sciences and
Administration, Granada University
Khalil Shiqaqi
Director of the Palestinian Centre for Policy
and Survey Research (Palestine)
Manuel Pérez Yruela
Researcher of the Institute of Advanced
Social Studies of Andalusia IESA-CSIC
Riay Tatari
Secretary General of the Islamic Commission
of Spain
Pedro López de Aguirrebengoa
Ambassador of Spain
James Piscatori
Political Scientist. Head of School of
Government and International Affairs,
Durham University
Manuel Torres Aguilar
Vice Rector and Director of the UNESCO
Chair for Conflict Resolution at Cordoba
University
Pedro Martínez Montávez
Emeritus Professor of Arab and Islamic
Studies, Autonomous University of Madrid
Kamal Rahmouni
President of the Association of Moroccan
Immigrant Workers in Spain (ATIME)
Darío Valcárcel
Editor of the magazine “Política Exterior”
(Foreign Policy)
Diego Moya
Western Mediterranean Cultural Association,
MEDOCC
Manuel Romero Marcos
Curator of cultural exhibitions
Antonio Vallejo Triano
Director of the Madinat Al Zahra archaeological site
Asma Khader
Former minister of Culture of Jordan.
Secretary General of The Jordan National
Commission for Women
Bassma Kodmani
Political Scientist. Executive Director of the
Arab Reform Initiative, Paris
Jorge Lirola Delgado
Chairman of the Spanish Society of Arab
Studies (SEEA)
Hala Mustafa
Director of Political Studies of the Al Ahram
Centre of Strategic and Political Studies.
Editor of the magazine “Democracy”, Egypt
Miquel Nadal
Former Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Director of Foundations and International
Relations area of the Royal Automobile Club
of Catalonia (RACC)
Caridad Ruiz de Almodóvar
Professor of Contemporary History of Islam,
Granada University
Ignacio Rupérez Rubio
Special Ambassador for Relations with
Muslim Communities and Organisations
Abroad
Abdallah Saaf
Professor of Political Sciences and Director
Fernando Vallespín
Professor of Political Sciences, Autonomous
Enrique Vázquez Domínguez
Leader writer of the Vocento group
María Jesús Viguera Molins
Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies,
Complutense University of Madrid
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The Director General of Casa Árabe, Gema Martín Muñoz, greets the Palestinian Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Riad Malki.
OFFICIAL VISITS
Casa Árabe, as an instrument serving Spain’s
foreign actions in the Arab states, receives
notable personalities from the Arab world. In
January, the Prime Minister of Palestine, Salam
Fayyad, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Riad
Malki, and the Palestinian ambassadors accredited in Europe visited Casa Árabe’s headquarters
in Madrid. After a meeting with the Director, they
were given a tour of the headquarters’ facilities
and the exhibition on Jerusalem at the beginning of
the 20th century: Heritage and culture.
The Governor of Badghis, Alhaj Delbarjan
Arman, accompanied by a delegation of
notable Afghanis on an official visit to Spain,
also wished to see first hand the activities of
Casa Árabe and explore possibilities for collaboration.
Thanks to Casa Árabe’s collaboration with
Spain’s Houses of Parliament, Congress and
Senate, the Director General had the occasion
to visit the headquarters together with a delegation from the Tunisian Chamber of
Deputies, led by their first Vice-president,
Sahbi Karoui, and the President of the Saudi
Arabian Consultative Council, Abdullah Bin
Mohammed Bin Ibrahim Al-Sheikh, heading a
parliamentary delegation.
Visit to Casa Árabe by a delegation of the Saudi Arabian Consultative Council.
In collaboration with the Ombudsman, the
institution’s headquarters hosted the IV
Meeting
of
the
Association
of
Mediterranean Ombudsmen. Those taking
part included representatives of Spain,
Morocco, France, Tunisia, Mauritania,
Jordan, Palestine, Algeria, Egypt, the
Lebanon, Turkey, etc. Present at the opening ceremony were José Bono, Speaker of
the Congress of Deputies, Enrique Múgica,
Ombudsman, Moulay M’hamed Iraki, Wali of
the Diwan Al Madhalim of the Kingdom of
Morocco, Jean-Paul Delevoye, Mediator of
the French Republic, and the Director
General of Casa Árabe, Gema Martín
Muñoz. The first lecture, Challenges posed to
ombudsmen by immigration and human rights,
was delivered by Javier de Lucas Martín,
professor of Philosophy of Law in the
University of Valencia and current Director
of the Spanish College in Paris.
In June, Casa Árabe received Maqbool bin
Ali bin Sultan, the Minister for Commerce
and Industry of the Sultanate of Oman,
accompanied by Ahmed Al Wahaibi,
Director General of the Oman Oil Company,
and Salim Al Ismaeli, President of the
Omani Centre for Investment Promotion
and Export Development (OCIPED). In
October, Casa Árabe was visited by the
Omani Minister of Justice, Sheikh
Mohammed bin Abdullah al Hinai, accompanied by the head of the Supreme Court
and other members of the Omani high institutions of justice.
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DIPLOMACY
1st EU-Morocco Business
Summit
Oman’s Minister of Justice, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdullah al Hinai, signs Casa Árabe’s distinguished visitors’ book.
On the occasion of the visit in April by Filippo
Grandi, High Commissioner of the United
Nations Relief and Works Agency for
Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), Casa Árabe
organized a colloquium on UNRWA’s current
situation, its funding needs and the prospects
of the agency at the current time.
In March, the Lebanese politician Michel
Aoun, leader of the Free Patriotic Movement
political party, visited Casa Árabe and delivered a lecture entitled The role of Christians in
the Lebanon and Middle East. In June, Samir
Geagea, leader of the Lebanese Forces party,
met in Casa Árabe with members of that institution’s Diplomatic Board.
In Damascus, with the collaboration of the
Spanish Embassy in Syria, Casa Árabe organized the exhibition Spain and the Arab World:
Images of a Century of Political Relations. The
inauguration in March was attended, by the
Spanish Ambassador, Casa Árabe’s Director
General, Joseph Sueid, Minister for
Expatriates, Nibal M. T. Bakfalouni, Director of
Fine Arts from the Ministry of Culture, and
Abdullatif Dabah, Director of Protocol at the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Inauguration of the Exhibition Spain and the Arab World: Images of a Century of Political Relations in Damascus.
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Within the framework of the Spanish Presidency of
the European Union (EU) and on the occasion of
the First EU-Morocco Summit, in collaboration
with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
Cooperation (MAEC), the Regional Government of
Andalusia, the Spanish Confederation of Business
Organizations (CEOE), BusinessEurope and the
General Confederation of Moroccan Corporations
(Confédération Générale des Enterprises du
Maroc or CGEM), Casa Árabe organized the
First EU-Morocco Business Summit, which
took place on March 6th in Granada.
Members of Spanish, European and Moroccan
business organizations and financial institutions,
as well as notable representatives of the EU and
the Spanish and Andalusian governments, analyzed the new phase of business co-operation
that is emerging with the enhanced status and
potential new agreement between the EU and
Morocco, as well as market prospects in
Morocco of key sectors such as renewable
energies, transport, logistics and infrastructures.
The Summit was attended, among others, by
Alfredo Bonet, Spain’s Secretary of State for
Foreign Trade; Tomás Duplá del Moral, Middle
East and Southern Mediterranean Director of
the European Commission; Youssef Amrani,
General Secretary of the Moroccan Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and Cooperation; Ahmed Reda
Chami, Morocco’s Minister for Industry,
Commerce and New Technologies; Carmen
Martínez, Councillor for Finance and Public
Administration at the Regional Government of
Andalusia; Santiago Herrero, President of the
Confederation of Andalusian Business Owners
(CEA) and Vice-President of the CEOE; August
Pierre
Mesker,
President
of
the
BusinessEurope Transport Working Group;
Jamal Mikou, CEO of the Tangiers Free Trade
Zone; Adolfo Utor, member of the Executive
Committee of the European Community
Shipowners’ Association (ECSA); Mostafa alMouzani, Director of the Port of Tangiers and
the Tangiers-Mediterranean Special Agency
(TMSA); Juan Alario, Head of the Renewable
Energies and Energy Efficiency Division of the
European Investment Bank (EIB); Saïd Mouline,
President of the Sustainable Development
Commission of the CGEM and Director of the
Centre for Renewable Energy Development
(CDER); Mustapha Bakkouri, President of the
Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy; and
Santiago Seage, founding member of
DESERTEC. The conclusions were presented
I EU-Morocco Business Summit.
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by the presidents of the Spanish and Moroccan
business confederations and the summit was
brought to a close by José Manuel Durão
Barroso, President of the European
Commission, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero,
Prime Minister of the Spanish Government and
Abbas El Fassi, Prime Minister of Morocco.
1st EU-Morocco Local
Authorities Forum
Among the activities planned during the
Spanish Presidency of the EU, and prior to the
EU-Morocco Summit which took place on
March 8th, 2010 in Granada, Casa Árabe collaborated in the 1st EU-Morocco Local
Authorities Forum which took place in
Córdoba from March 1st to 3rd.
This forum was jointly organized by the Office of
the Secretary of State for the EU at the Spanish
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, the
General Directorate of Local Collectives in
Morocco, and the Andalusian Municipalities’
International Solidarity Fund (FAMSI). Also collaborating in the forum were entities such as the
Spanish Federation of Municipalities and
Provinces (FEMP), the Regional Government of
Andalusia, the Andalusian Federation of
Municipalities and Provinces (FAMP), the
Provincial Councils of Córdoba and Jaén,
Córdoba City Council, the Three Cultures
Foundation, the European Commission and the
United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP) through its ART Programme.
The purpose of the forum was to contribute to
determining the content of the EU-Morocco
Summit, on subjects considered fundamental
for the local governments in these territories,
and, furthermore, to promote decentralized
co-operation and the construction of a common agenda between local governments in
the EU and Morocco.
From left to right: Nasser H. Saidi, Hissa Abdulla Ahmed al Otaiba, Gema Martín Muñoz, Antonio Beteta Barreda and José Eugenio Salarich at the
DIFC-MCF international seminar on Spanish and the United Arab Emirates: economic relations and financial cooperation. Finance and projects.
Conference on economic
opening and liberalization
in Oman
On April 13th and 16th, Casa Árabe’s
Business Forum organized a week of
Hispano-Omani business conferences in
Madrid, Pamplona and Seville, under the title
Economic Opening and Liberalization in Oman:
expansion sectors and investment opportunities
for Spanish companies, in collaboration with the
Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade (ICEX), the
Regional Government of Navarre, the Madrid
Chamber of Commerce, the Navarre Chamber
of Commerce and Industry, the Andalusian
Foreign Trade Promotion Agency, Extenda,
PromoMadrid, the Madrid Confederation of
Business Organizations-CEOE (CEIM) and the
Investors and Exporters Club.
The seminars examined investment opportunities in the country arising out of the process of
opening and liberalization under way in such sectors as tourism, renewable energies, infrastructures and telecommunications, among others.
The conference cycle was officially opened by
Gema Martín Muñoz, Director General of Casa
Árabe, and Sheikh Hilal Marhoon Salim AlMamary, Ambassador of the Sultanate of
Oman. A delegation of representatives from different institutions, government agencies, business organizations and Omani businesses, led
by the Councillor from the Economic and
Commercial Office of the Spanish Embassy in
Muscat, Christian Garma Santander, and
including Jamil bin Ali Sultan Al-Lawatti, VicePresident of the Oman Chamber of Commerce
and Industry; Salem bin Mohamed Al-Shanfari,
member of the Management Board of the
Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry;
Ana María de Lara, representative in Spain of
the Omani Centre for Investment Promotion
and Export Development (OCIPED); Saleh AlRumhi, Production Manager for Privatizations
at the Public Authority for Electricity and Water
(PAEW); Ali Salem Al-Harthy, Dean of the
School of Engineering, Sultan Qaboos
University; Adel Gastli, Co-ordinator of the
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Group
(RASERG); Wael Ahmed Al-Lawati, Executive
Director of the Omani State Tourism Company;
and Iqbal Sultan, Director of Business
Development at WJ Towell.
EU-Algeria Trade
From left to right: Jean-Paul Delevoye, Mediator of the French Republic and General Secretary of the Association of Mediterranean Ombudsmen (AOM);
Moulay M’hamed Iraki, Wali of the Diwan Al Madhalim of Morocco; and José Bono Martínez, Speaker of the Congress of Deputies, at the 4th Meeting of
the AOM.
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Among the institutional support activities
with associations and economic organiza-
tions in Spain and the Arab world, a briefing
was organized on May 24th in collaboration
with ACE International Consultants on the
role of Casa Árabe as an instrument of public diplomacy, to promote and support economic and institutional cooperation
between Spain and the Arab world. The
meeting was part of the FACICO project to
facilitate trade between the EU and Algeria,
organized by the Algerian Ministry of
Commerce and ACE, financed by the EU,
whose objective is to support and facilitate
trade and consumer associations in Algeria.
After the welcome and opening by Gema
Martín Muñoz, the Director General of Casa
Árabe, those taking part in the meeting
included Abdelhamid Belahda, Director of
the Algerian Trade Ministry FACICO
Programme; Estelle Lantin, Director of
Projects,
Economic
Development,
Commerce and Competition for ACE
International Consultants; and Olivia Orozco
and Ana González from Casa Árabe. It was
also attended by officials from the Ministry
of Trade and representatives of Algerian
consumers’ associations.
Spain and the United Arab
Emirates: economic relations
and financial co-operation
The promotion of economic relations and
financial co-operation between Spain and
United Arab Emirates (UAE) were the subject of
an international investment seminar organized
in Madrid on September 24th by Casa Árabe,
the Madrid Financial Centre (MCF) and the
Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC)
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under the title Spain and the United Arab
Emirates: economic relations and financial cooperation. DIFC-MCF Finance and Projects
Seminar.
The purpose of the seminar was to encourage
and dynamize economic and financial relations between the United Arab Emirates and
Spain, on the occasion of the signing of the
memorandum of bilateral understanding that
both international financial centres signed on
that day.
As a result of a broad programme of economic liberalization and diversification, the United
Arab Emirates has over the last decade
become a landmark economic centre in sectors such as finance, the leisure industry and
culture and infrastructures and transport, situated in the geostrategic axis connecting the
emerging countries of the south and eastern
Asia.
The seminar was officially opened by Gema
Martín Muñoz, Director General of Casa
Árabe; Antonio Beteta Barreda, President of
MCF and Nasser H. Saidi; Chief Economist
and Head of External Relations of Dubai
International Financial Centre. Also taking part
were Isabel Martín Castellá, Director General
of MCF; Hissa Abdulla Ahmed Al Otaiba,
Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to
Spain; Gonzalo de Benito, Spanish
Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates;
Antonio Garrigues Walker, President and
founder of the Garrigues Law Office; Javier
Méndez Llera, member of the Spanish
Institute of Financial Analysts; Ian Johnston,
Deputy Chief Executive and Managing
Director of Dubai Financial Services Authority,
public diplomacy
Jesús González Nieto-Márquez, President of
Latibex (Stock Market for Latin-American listings in euros); Tim Ross, partner at Latham &
Watkins; Ignacio de la Torre, partner in
Arcano; Mohd Daud Bakar, Managing Director
of Amanie Islamic Finance Consultancy and
Education Limited Liability Company; Enrique
Pérez Hernández, professor in the Stock
Exchange Studies Institute; Hussein Hassan,
Head of Islamic Finance for the Middle East
and North Africa (MENA) for Deutsche Bank;
Iqbal Khan, Chief Executive Officer of Fajr
Capital Limited; Urs Stirnimann, Managing
Partner of Swiss International Legal
Consultants; Jorge Dajani González, Chief
Executive Officer for Information and Strategy,
Invest in Spain; Brian Jeffery, senior VicePresident of Emirates Airlines Corporate
Treasury;
Gerald
Lawless,
Executive
Chairman at the Jumeirah Group; Fernando
Bernad Ripoll, lawyer at the Cuatrecasas,
Gonçalves Pereira law office; Carlos
Contreras Gómez, Deputy Director General,
Corporate Finance Director, Caja Madrid; Ravi
Suri, Director of Project and Infrastructure
Finance, Standard Chartered Bank; Ramón
Llorente, Head of Project Finance, Banco
Santander; and Carlos Fernández Almazán,
Director of Infrastructure Finance, Banco
Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA).
The Islamic Development
Bank: project funding in the
Arab states
The application of Islamic finance to funding
large-scale development and infrastructure
projects was examined during a one-day con-
Ayadi Ben Aissa, President and Director General of the Tunisian Electricity, Gas and Renewable Energies Company, and Gema Martín Muñoz, Director
General of Casa Árabe, at the presentation of the Tunisian Solar Plan.
Meeting on Economic and Financial Liberalization in Syria: co-operation opportunities for the banking sector.
ference on the running, experience and projects of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB),
held on November 24th at the headquarters of
Casa Árabe in Madrid and on November 25th
in Pamplona, with the collaboration of the
Navarre Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Abderrahman El Glaoui, Regional Director of
the IDB in Morocco, presented the projects
financed by the bank in North Africa and the
possibilities for Spanish businesses to cooperate in them.
companies on the Economic and Financial
Liberalization in Syria: co-operation opportunities for the bank sector. At the meeting,
Dergham explained the advances made in
the process of de-regulating the financial
sector begun in 2000 which, in addition to
opening up the sector to international private capital, involved the beginning of a
whole series of policies intended to improve
the business climate and promote foreign
investment.
Renewable energies and solar
energy in Tunisia
Triangulation of
Spain-Brazil-Arab States:
experiences and prospects
A one-day business conference on The
Tunisian solar plan, organized in collaboration
with the Tunisian Embassy in Spain, was held
on October 25th at Casa Árabe’s headquarters in Madrid.
The President and Director General of the
Tunisian Electricity, Gas and Renewable
Energies Company, Ayadi Ben Aissa, presented the priorities and projects of the Tunisian
Solar Plan, which has a budget of around two
billion euros for the development of some
forty solar and aeolic energy and electricity
distribution projects in the next five years.
Their aim is to produce 22% of the electricity
consumed in the country from renewable
sources by 2016.
Economic and financial
liberalization in Syria
In September, 2010, on the occasion of the
visit by Douraid Dergham, Director General
of the Commercial Bank of Syria (CBS), a
meeting was held with interested Spanish
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Under this heading a forum was held at
which entrepreneurs, chambers of commerce and commercial attachés held a dialogue and promoted commercial dynamics
between Spain, Brazil and the Arab states.
The gathering offered an overview of trade,
investment and business, as well as of the
different bilateral agreements signed
between Brazil and the Arab states; the
presentation of case studies of businesses
that triangulate between the three regions;
and, in conclusion, a presentation of
prospects outlining new trends and opportunities. The forum enjoyed the participation of
Michel Alaby, Secretary General of the ArabBrazilian Chamber of Commerce; Claudio
Garón, Head of the Commercial Office of the
Brazilian Embassy in Spain; Alexandre
Bolson, a lawyer practising in Brazil and
Spain and member of the Brazil-Spain
Chamber of Commerce; Isabel Ariza,
International Director of the Volconsa Group;
and Jacinto Soler, professor at the Pompeu
Fabra University and Managing Partner of
Emergia Partners.
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INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS
Casa Árabe has collaborated or signed agreements with national and international institutions and organizations in the academic, economic, educational and cultural fields,
amongst which the following stand out:
• Afkar/Ideas, Spain
• Al Jazeera Documentary Channel
• American University of Cairo, Egypt
• Amsterdam University, Netherlands
• Andalusian Foreign Trade Promotion
Agency (Extenda), Seville
• Andalusian Municipalities’ International
Solidarity Fund (FAMSI), Córdoba
• Anna Lindh Foundation, Alexandria (Egypt)
• Arab Reform Initiative, Paris (France)
• Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, São
Paulo (Brazil)
• Arabesques Festival, Montpellier (France)
• Argentinean Council for International
Relations (CARI), Buenos Aires (Argentina)
• Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)
• Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM)
• Barcelona International Study and
Documentation Centre Foundation (CIDOB)
• Blanquerna Cultural Centre, Madrid
• Borges Cultural Centre, Buenos Aires
(Argentina)
• British Council
• BUSINESSEUROPE, Brussels (Belgium)
• Ca’Foscari University, Venice (Italy)
• Cadiz University
• Carolina Foundation, Madrid
• Casa África, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• Casa América Catalunya, Barcelona
• Casa América, Madrid
• Casa Asia, Barcelona
• Casa de los Árabes, Havana (Cuba)
• Casa Mediterráneo, Alicante
• Casa Sefarad Israel, Madrid
• Castellón Contemporary Art Space
• Catholic University of Uruguay, Montevideo
• Center for Arab Unity Studies (CAUS),
Beirut (Lebanon)
• Center for Study and Research in the
Social Sciences (CERSS), Rabat (Morocco)
• Centre of Contemporary Art, Málaga
• Centrum Mot Rasism (Centre against
Racism), Stockholm (Sweden)
• Cineclub Martil film club, Morocco
• Cineclube Padre Feijoo film club, Vigo
• Cinemateca Dominicana film club, Santo
Domingo (Dominican Republic)
• Cinemateca Uruguaya film club,
Montevideo (Uruguay)
• Complutense University in Madrid (UCM)
• Córdoba 2016 European Capital of Culture
Office
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public diplomacy
• Costa Rica University
• Council of the Moroccan Community
Abroad (CCME), Rabat (Morocco)
• Cultural Centre of Spain, Montevideo
(Uruguay)
• Culture of Peace Foundation, Madrid
• Diplomatic School, Madrid
• Documenta Festival Madrid
• Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC),
United Arab Emirates
• École normale supérieure, Martil (Morocco)
• Economic and Social Council (CES)
• Egyptian Institute for Islamic Studies in Madrid
• Erasmus University, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
• Europe’s World, Brussels (Belgium)
• European Institute of the Mediterranean
(IEMed), Barcelona
• European Union Institute for Security
Studies (EU-ISS), Paris (France)
• European University of Madrid
• Experimentaclub Festival, Madrid
• Exporters and Investors Club, Madrid
• February Third National University
(UNTREF), Argentina
• Festival Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’iya
• Festival of African Cinema in Tarifa
• Festival of the Arab World in Montréal, Canada
• Festival of the South, Agüimes (Gran Canaria)
• Filmoteca Española film library
• Filmoteca de Andalusia film library
• Filmoteca de Catalonia film library
• Foro Compostela 2010
• Foundation for Pluralism and Co-existence,
Madrid
• French Biblical and Archaeological School
of Jerusalem
• French Institute of International Relations
(IFRI), Paris (France)
• French Institute of the Near East (IFPO),
Damascus (Syria)
• French Institute, Madrid
• Friedrich Ebert Foundation
• Gallup Center for Muslim Studies,
Washington (USA)
• General Confederation of Moroccan
Corporations (CGEM), Casablanca (Morocco)
• Global Democracy and Development
Foundation (FUNGLODE), Santo Domingo
(Dominican Republic)
• Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL),
Mexico
• Guadalajara University, Mexico
• High Commissioner for Immigration and
Intercultural Dialogue (ACIDI), Lisbon,
Portugal
• Higher Council for Scientific Research
(CSIC), Spain
• Hispano-Brazilian Cultural Foundation,
Madrid
• IE Business School, Madrid
• Ihmisoikeusliitto (Finnish League of Human
Rights), Helsinki (Finland)
• Information Club, Alicante
• Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD),
London (United Kingdom)
• Institute of Arab Culture (ICArabe), São
Paulo (Brazil)
• Instituto Cervantes
• Instituto Cervantes, Casablanca (Morocco)
• Instituto Cervantes, Damascus (Syria)
• Instituto Cervantes, Rabat (Morocco)
• Instituto Cervantes, Tetouan (Morocco)
• Instituto Cervantes, Tokyo (Japan)
• International Centre for Rural Studies and
Agriculture (CERAI), Valencia
• International Public Administration and
Policy Foundation for Ibero-America
(FIIAPP), Madrid
• International Theatre Institute of the
Mediterranean Foundation, Madrid
• International Tourism Fair in Spain (FITUR)
2010, Madrid
• International University of Andalusia (UNIA)
• Istanbul 2010 Avrupa Kültür Baflkenti
(‘Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture’)
• Jaén Museum
• Jazz Festival, Madrid
• Jean-Jaurès Foundation, Paris (France)
• Jordan University
• King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah (Saudi
Arabia)
• La Casa Encendida, Madrid
• Lebanese University, Beirut (Lebanon)
• Luis Ortega Bru Municipal Cultural
Foundation, San Roque (Cadiz)
• Madinat al-Zahra Archaeological Site,
Córdoba
• Madrid Business Confederations-CEOE
(CEIM)
• Madrid Chamber of Commerce and Industry
• Madrid Financial Centre (MFC)
• Madrid Pavilion, Universal Exhibition of
Shanghai
• Manifesta 8, Murcia
• MarrocFest, Barcelona
• Media and Citizenship, Utrecht (Netherlands)
• Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic
Studies (MEDAC), Msida (Malta)
• Mediterranean Communication Observatory
(OMEC), Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona)
• Mediterranean Dialogue, Madrid
• Menéndez Pelayo International University
• Ministry of Culture of the Arab Republic of
Egypt
• Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Foundation (MBRF), Dubai (United Arab
Emirates)
• Mohammed V University, Rabat (Morocco)
• Movement against Intolerance, Madrid
• Murcia University
• National Library of the Kingdom of
Morocco, Rabat (Morocco)
• Navarre Chamber of Commerce and
Industry
• New Economy Forum, Madrid
• Office of the United Nations Development
Programme in Iraq (UNDP-Iraq)
• Olof Palme International Foundation,
Badalona (Barcelona)
• Pablo Iglesias Foundation, Madrid
• Pedagogical Museum of Galicia, Santiago
de Compostela
• PhotoEspaña, Madrid
• Raks Festival, Madrid
• Ramses2, European network of excellence
for research centres in human sciences in
the Mediterranean Area, Aix-en-Provence
(France)
• Recoleta Cultural Centre, Buenos Aires
(Argentina)
• Regional Office for the Arab States of the
United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP-RBAS)
• Royal Seville Academy of Letters
• Saint Joseph University, Beirut (Lebanon)
• San Sebastian Festival, Cinema in
Movement
• São Paulo Season of Arab Cinema, São
Paulo (Brazil)
• São Paulo University, Brazil
• 2nd Season of Political Cinema Directed by
Women, Madrid
• Spanish Commission for Refugee Aid (CEAR)
• Spanish Confederation of Business
Organizations (CEOE), Madrid
• Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade (ICEX),
Madrid
• Spanish Network for the Anna Lindh
Foundation, Barcelona
• Spanish Observatory on Racism and
Xenophobia in Spain (OBERAXE), Madrid
• Spanish Red Cross
• Spanish Society of Arab Studies (SEEA)
• Teatro Cómico Principal, Córdoba
• Teatro La Abadía, Madrid
• Three Cultures Foundation, Seville
• Three Cultures International Festival for
Tolerance, Murcia
• Toledo School of Translators
• UNESCO Chair in Conflict Resolution,
University of Córdoba
• United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq
(UNAMI)
• United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP)
• United Nations Relief and Works Agency
for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)
• University of Santiago de Chile
• Uruguayan Parliament
• Utrecht University, Netherlands
• Viadrina European University, Frankfurt an
den Oder (Germany)
• World Economic Forum (WEF)
• Zaragoza University
• Zentrum Moderner Orient (Modern Orient
Centre, ZMO), Berlin (Germany)
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casa árabe’s international institute of arab and muslim world studies
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INSTITUTE OF ARAB AND MUSLIM
WORLD STUDIES
The International Institute of Arab and
Muslim World Studies (IEAM) functions as
Casa Árabe’s center for studies and
research, in which several lines of research
have consolidated since 2007. Based in
Córdoba, the institute brings together a multidisciplinary group of researchers specialized in Casa Árabe’s different fields of investigation. It either leads or follows various
research networks in Spain and the Arab
states. Co-operation takes place through
agreements with universities and research
centres of excellence, both in Spain and in
Arab and European countries, as well as
through contacts with academics of international prestige.
The research lines complement the other
work areas of Casa Árabe, enabling an
effective transfer of academic knowledge
across the areas of Culture, Education,
Publications, Socioeconomic Forum and
Sociopolitical Observatory. The research
projects and their results are published in
journals, seminars, lectures and specialist
and postgraduate training programmes,
either organized by Casa Árabe or in collaboration with other institutions inside or outside Spain.
Muslims of the West
During 2010, the IEAM research team has
worked to set up a website with resources
dedicated to the MdOcc programme
(http://mdocc.casaarabe.es). The aim of
this programme is to respond to academic
interests, but also to provide the agents
involved in the subject with a series of
activities and resources for information,
analysis and debate that will be effective in
normalizing the reality of Muslims and of
Islam in Spain and the West. The priority of
the MdOCC programme’s website is to
offer a systematic series of constantly
updated information resources on institutions, legislation, research, publications,
education, links, news, and, generally
speaking, on the different reality of
Muslims and their varied forms of social
participation, first and foremost in Spain,
but also in the sphere of other western
countries.
RESEARCH PRIORITIES
The research lines that have been consolidated at this stage are:
• Political reforms and socioeconomic trends
in the Arab states, whose results are expressed in the publications and activities of the
sociopolitical observatory and socioeconomic
forum, respectively.
• The social reality of Arab and Muslim
women.
• The Muslims of the West (MdOcc) programme.
• Islamisms in context.
Azmi Shuaibi and Aram Merguiziam at the seminar on The reform of the security sector in the Arab world: comparative analysis with Spain and Latin America.
As a result of these research priorities, in
2010 the IEAM has developed several projects and brought others to a successful
conclusion.
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Muslim traditions
in secular Europe
Since July, 2008, Casa Árabe’s IEAM has been
part of a project led jointly by the University of
Utrecht, the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in
Berlin and the Viadrina European University
(Frankfurt-Oder), 70% of which is funded by
the Netherlands Organization for Scientific
Research (NWO, Nederlandse Organisatie voor
Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek). The purpose of
this project is to create a network of
researchers which, under the denomination
Muslim traditions in secular Europe, brings
together scholars from all over Europe and
North America to carry out research into the
question of Islam and Europe. The research
network periodically organizes themed seminars with the aim of sharing work experiences
and seeking ways to strengthen scientific
cooperation between countries and between
the different academic institutions.
parameter: that they have extensive experience closely linked to the development of their
country. These links may be political or cultural, economic, philosophical, social or artistic,
or a combination of several of these. These
are outstanding personalities who, through
their memories, contribute to humanizing and
understanding the other.
The following issues have been published:
1. Al-Sayyed Muhammad Hasan al-Amin,
Lebanese thinker and man of religion.
2. Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, Egyptian thinker.
In 2010 the network organized a conference at
Utrecht University on Dialogue and legislation as
tools to integrate Muslims in European societies
(January 14th to 15th) and a seminar at the
ZMO in Berlin on Visual politics and Islam and
The political significance of religious practices
and rituals.
In 2010, this network established new contacts with researchers and academic institutions in other European countries, who are
poised to join at the new stage which will
begin once the period of NWO funding ends in
September, 2011.
Living Together: European
citizenship against racism
and xenophobia
Jointly funded by the specific programme on
Constitutional Rights and Citizenship (20072013) and managed by the Directorate
General for Justice, Freedom and Security of
the European Commission, this European
project came to an end in 2010. The aim of
the project was to promote a European discourse of tolerance, based on the production
of arguments for co-existence and respect,
the acknowledgement of difference and the
construction of a European citizenry far
removed from any form of racism or xenophobia. It was led by the Spanish
Observatory on Racism and Xenophobia in
Spain (OBERAXE), a unit of the Ministry of
Labour and Immigration. This project brought
together NGOs and institutions from Spain
(Oberaxe, Casa Árabe, Consortium of Bodies
for Integrated Action with Migrants –
CEPAIM, the Spanish Red Cross, the
Provincial Government of Barcelona, the
Movement against Intolerance), Finland
(Ministry of the Interior and Finnish League of
Human Rights), Sweden (Centre against
Racism), Netherlands (Erasmus University of
Rotterdam), Portugal (High Commissioner for
Immigration and Intercultural Dialogue (ACIDI)
and the Commission for Citizenship and
Gender Equality (CIG) and Ireland (Equality
Authority).
The results of this project, in addition to identifying racist and xenophobic discourses,
gave rise to a Decalogue of Citizenship,
Tolerance and Dialogue, summarizing the
shared principles of citizenship and respect.
Moreover, the project set up a transnational
monitoring and reaction mechanism to counteract new racist discourses.
Islamic Movements
in Europe
The Islamic Movements in Europe project,
co-ordinated by Frank Peter (Berne
University) and Rafael Ortega (Casa ÁrabeIEAM), came to an end in 2010. The results of
the project will be published in both English
and Spanish in 2011. More than fifty scholars
from different European and Arab countries
took part in this project, intended to make
highly specialized academic knowledge on
Islamism and Islamic movements accessible
to a wide public with an academic and/or professional interest.
COURSES
Courses with the
Diplomatic School
Islam and Muslims: historical dimension and contemporary dynamics, the second edition of the
course organized by the Diplomatic School
and Casa Árabe was held from May 4th until
June 1st, 2010, directed by Gema Martín
Muñoz, Director General of Casa Árabe, and
José M.ª Ferré de la Peña, Special
Ambassador for Relations with Muslim
Communities and Organizations Abroad.
Records of Memory
The Records of Memory project rescues Arab
or Muslim individuals as the protagonists and
key components of history. The idea fits into
Casa Árabe-IEAM’s line of work dedicated to
ensuring a more profound social knowledge of
each country and the Arab states as a group,
disseminating the Arab and Muslim realities.
In Records of Memory, through an in-depth
interview, the individual memory of the character is recovered and contributes to the collective memory of society. With this aim in
mind, the interviewees or narrators are selected taking into account one fundamental
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PLIEGUES DE LA MEMORIA
NASR HAMID ABU ZAYD
The publication comes in a CD-book format
including an introduction and presentation of
the interview, the interview transcribed in
Spanish and Arabic, as well as the DVD with
the live interview subtitled in Spanish.
From left to right: Gema Martín Muñoz, Director General of Casa Árabe, Manuel Torres Aguilar, Vice-President and Director of the UNESCO
Chair in Conflict Resolution, University of Córdoba (UCO), Lieutenant General Juan Carlos Villamía Ugarte and Fernando López Mora, Director of
the course on Understanding the present-day world: defence culture and international conflicts in a framework of dialogue between civilizations.
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Khadija Mohsen-Finan in the seminar Reform and governance in
the Arab states.
Those who took part in the course as teachers: Celia de Anca (IE Business School),
Elena Arigita (Casa Árabe-IEAM), Luis F.
Bernabé Pons (Alicante University), Dolors
Bramon (Barcelona University), Juan José
Escobar (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation - MAEC), José María Ferré de la
Peña (MAEC), Amira Kedier (Casa ÁrabeIEAM), Joan Lacomba (Valencia University),
Justo Lacunza (Pontificio Istituto di Studi
Arabi e d’Islamistica – PISAI), Bernabé
López García (Autonomous University of
Madrid - UAM), Eduardo Manzano (Centre
for Human and Social Sciences, Higher
Council of Scientific Investigation, CSIC),
Juan Antonio Macías (Granada University),
Gema Martín Muñoz (Casa Árabe-IEAM),
Bahige Mullah (Islamologist), Laura Navarro
(Minority Media, Poitiers University), Juan
Antonio Pacheco (Seville University), Ana
Planet (UAM), Abdennur Prado (Catalan
Islamic Council), Fidel Sendagorta (Director
General of Foreign Policy for the
Mediterranean, North Africa and Middle
East, MMOP), Fernando Vallespín (UAM),
José Juan Toharia (UAM, Metroscopia market research company), Olivia Orozco (Casa
Árabe-IEAM), Rafael Ortega (Casa ÁrabeIEAM), Caridad Ruiz de Almodóvar (Granada
University) and Walid Saleh (UAM).
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In addition to this course, in 2010, in collaboration with the Diplomatic School, Casa Árabe
co-ordinated for the fourth consecutive year
the module The Maghreb and The Middle East,
within the Interuniversity Master’s degree in
Diplomacy and International Relations delivered by the Diplomatic School. This module,
directed by Gema Martín Muñoz, comprised
thirty-five lectures on history, economy, society, politics, law, security, conflicts and international relations, delivered by: José AbuTarbush (La Laguna University), Ignacio
Álvarez-Ossorio (Alicante University), Elena
Arigita (Casa Árabe-IEAM), Isaías Barreñada
(Casa
Árabe-IEAM),
Rafael
Bustos
(Complutense University of Madrid), Gonzalo
Escribano (Spanish Distance Learning
University,
UNED),
Rafael
Escudero
(Complutense University of Madrid), Gonzalo
Fernández Parrilla (UAM), José María Ferré
(MAEC), Paloma García Picazo (UNED), Ana
González Santamaría (Casa Árabe-IEAM),
Víctor Luis Gutiérrez Castillo (Jaén University,
Casa Árabe-IEAM), Amira Kedier (Casa ÁrabeIEAM), Javier Lesaca (Casa Árabe-IEAM),
Pedro López de Aguirrebengoa (MAEC), Gema
Martín Muñoz (UAM, Casa Árabe-IEAM),
Miguel Ángel Martín (Open University of
Catalonia), Nuria Medina García (Casa ÁrabeIEAM), Olivia Orozco (Casa Árabe-IEAM),
Rafael Ortega Rodrigo (Casa Árabe-IEAM),
Waleed Saleh Alkhalifa (UAM), Víctor M.
Sánchez (Open University of Catalonia), Antoni
Segura (Barcelona University), Juan José
Tamayo (Complutense University of Madrid),
Alberto Ucelay (MAEC), Rocío Vázquez Martí
(Casa Árabe-IEAM) and Pedro Villena
Rodríguez-Spiteri (MAEC).
Understanding the
present-day world: defence
culture and international
conflicts in a framework of
dialogue between civilizations
Casa Árabe collaborated with Córdoba
University (UCO) in the course entitled
Understanding the present-day world: defence
culture and international conflicts in a framework
of dialogue with civilizations, delivered from
July 12th to 16th under the auspices of the
courses of the 2010 Corduba Summer
University.
Practical class in the course on Madinat al-Zahra, History and Archaeology of al-Andalus.
Among the subjects studied in this course,
those which stand out are the transcendence
of the Arab and Muslim world in the international order, the role of the Armed Forces and
national solidarity in emergency situations,
and the new missions of the Army, like the one
in Lebanon.
The course combined the teaching of theoretical classes with practical classes, which were
conducted at the actual site, in its protected
environment or in the restoration workshops
of the new headquarters of the archaeological
site.
The opening session, held on Monday June
12th in the Assembly Hall of the Arts Faculty in
Córdoba University (UCO), opened with the
topic Representing and historicizing defence culture and the analysis of contemporary conflicts.
Taking part were Manuel Torres Aguilar (UCO),
Gema Martín Muñoz (Casa Árabe), Lieutenant
General Juan Carlos Villamía-Ugarte (Ministry
of Defence) and Fernández López Mora (UCO).
After this session, Gema Martín Muñoz
delivered the lecture The Arab and Muslim
World in the International Order.
Course on Geopolitics
of Islam
The seminar programme included the participation of José Manuel Cuenca Toribio (UCO),
José Emilio Roldán (Ministry of Defence),
Octavio Salazar (UCO), Víctor Gutiérrez (Casa
Árabe-IEAM), Veronique Choquette (Embassy
of Canada) and Luis Javier Pérez-Bustamente
Mourier (Joly Group).
Madinat al-Zahra: course
of al-Andalus history and
archaeology
The course provided by the 2010 Corduba
Summer University under the title Madinat alZahra, history and archaeology of al-Ándalus,
was organized by the UCO, the Madinat alZahra Archaeology Site and Casa Árabe. For the
third consecutive year, specialists in mediaeval
history, archaeology and architectural restoration presented, from multiple perspectives,
the current state of research and the recovery
of Madinat al-Zahra and its historical land
organization.
Organized by Casa Árabe and the UNESCO
Chair in Conflict Resolution at UCO, this
course held from November 3rd to 5th dealt
with the doctrinal, geographical and sociological
diversity of Islam, including case studies such
as Turkey, Iran and the republics of Central
Asia.
The lectures were delivered by Gema Martín
Muñoz, Jordi Moreras (Rovira i Virgili University),
Antoni Segura (University of Barcelona), María
José Merinero (University of Extremadura) and
Rafael Bueno (Casa Asia).
SEMINARS
5th Seminar on Agents of
Development Co-operation
Together with the Straits University Extension
of the University of Cadiz, the Provincial
Government of Cadiz and the Technological
Campus Foundation of Algeciras, Casa Árabe
organized the 5th Seminar on Agents of
Development Co-operation on July 7th to 9th
in the Kursaal building in Algeciras.
The purpose of the seminar was to open up a
space for meeting, knowledge and debate on
the present and the future of development cooperation.
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International seminar
Europe and the Arab
countries. Views, opinions
and perspectives
Seminar on Sahel: co-operation and development prospects.
A look from different points of view at the work
by co-operation agents in various developing
countries.
Taking part in the event were Javier Pérez
Iglesias (Spanish Agency for International
Development Cooperation) and Joaquín Rivas
Rubiales (Andalusian Agency for International
Cooperation), who explained their vision of the
current state and foreseeable evolution of
development co-operation. Other participants
were representatives of NGOs and notable
associations in the sphere of co-operation in
areas such as education, health, communication, and human crises. The closing lecture
was delivered by Antonio Zurita, an international consultant for the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP).
Entities such as the Dos Orillas Foundation,
the Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies
and the Three Mediterranean Cultures
Foundation took part in the activity.
Sahel: co-operation
and development prospects
On Monday December 13th, Casa Árabe
organized, in collaboration with the Provincial
Government of Córdoba, a seminar on the
Sahel region with the title Sahel: co-operation
and development prospects. There was also a
screening of a documentary about Timbuktu
and a concert of music from Mali, organized
by Madina N’Diaye.
The lectures were given by Antonio Llaguno,
from the Kati Foundation; Vicente Millán and
Adelina Cano, researchers and voluntary
workers in the Sahel region; Saguirou
Hassane, from Say University; and
Mohamed Mahmoud Brahim, Director of the
Pericles programme. In addition, a workshop was held on The cooperation of NGOs
and other agents from Córdoba and Andalusia
in the Sahel region.
Organized by Casa Árabe, the Anna Lindh
Foundation and the Barcelona Center for
International Affairs (CIDOB) under the auspices of the Spanish Presidency of the
European Union, the seminar was held on
May 6th and 7th at Casa Árabe’s headquarters in Madrid and constituted a forum to
stimulate debate and knowledge about the initiatives carried out by the three organizing
institutions: a study of what the Arabs think of
and expect from Europe, presented by Casa
Árabe and CIDOB, and the Anna Lindh Report
about Intercultural trends in the Euro-Med
region 2010.
The shared aim of this project, to improve
mutual knowledge and interactions between
the societies of the Mediterranean region, led
the three institutions to analyze the main
dynamics between Europe and the Arab
world. Among those people taking part in the
seminar were high-profile scholars, important
personalities and institutions that work in this
field, with the purpose of disseminating their
thoughts on these subjects. Among the
speakers were Gema Martín Muñoz (Casa
Árabe), Andreu Claret (Anna Lindh
Foundation), Jordi Vaquer i Fanés (CIDOB),
Mohammed Tozy (Hassan II University,
Casablanca), Sara Silvestri (City University,
London), Martin Rose (British Council
Canada, Ottawa), Robert Manchin (Gallup
Europe, Brussels), Antoine Messara (Saint
Joseph University, Beirut), Naomi Sakr (Arab
Media Centre, Westminster University,
London), Isabelle Rigoni (Paris VIII University),
Olivier Roy (European University Institute,
Florence), Khadija Mohsen-Finan (French
Institute of International Relations, Paris),
Bassma Kodmani (Arab Reform Initiative,
Paris), Khaled Hroub (Cambridge Arab Media
Project, Cambridge University), Abdullah
Baabood (Gulf Research Centre, Cambridge
University), Carmen Claudín (CIDOB), Amr
Hamzawi (Carnegie Middle East Center,
Beirut), Jamal al–Shalabi (Hashemite
University, Zarka, Jordan), Mohammed Nur elDin Affaya (Association for Research in
Intercultural Communication, Rabat), Fares
Braizat (Social and Economic Survey
Research Institute, University of Qatar, Doha),
and Mehdi Chehade (Euro-Arab Center for
Studies, Paris).
Good practices
for co-existence
In the month of December, Casa Árabe took
part in the seminar organized by Madrid City
Council’s “Centro” District, under the title
Good practices for co-existence, which was
intended to disseminate examples of cultural,
generational and gender co-existence in
Martin Rose (left) and Mohamed Tozi in the international seminar Europe and the Arab countries. Views, opinions and perspectives.
From left to right: Jordi Vaquer i Fanés, Abdullah Baabood, Gema Martín Muñoz, Bassma Kodmani and Khaled Hroub in the international seminar Europe
and the Arab countries. Views, opinions and perspectives.
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(OSE), the prizes for European Muslim
Women of Influence were awarded. The conference was attended by: Gema Martín
Muñoz (Casa Árabe-IEAM), Sasha Havlicek
(ISD), Rooful Ali (CEDAR), Parvin Ali
(CEDAR), Zahed Amanullah (CEDAR),
Estrella Rodríguez Pardo (Ministry of Labour
and Immigration), Asad Ahmad (British
Broadcasting Corporation – BBC), Nora
Berra (Ministry of Labour and Health,
France), Mohamed Dahiri (Córdoba City
Council), Amr Khaled (preacher and activist),
Mahinur Özdemir (Belgian parliamentarian)
and Farah Pandith (special US representative for the for Muslim communities).
Winners of the European Muslim Women of Influence Award.
Madrid. The event, held in CaixaForum,
brought together various bodies and initiatives of the Central District with the aim of
making known relevant experiences in this
area. The participation of Casa Árabe took
the form of presenting the project Ourselves. A
collective album of the Lavapiés neighbourhood,
done in 2009, comprising a book-album and
an exhibition organized in 2009 that reconstructed the history of the Lavapiés neighbourhood and the multiple origins of its current residents.
32nd Annual MELCom
Conference in Córdoba
Casa Árabe hosted in Córdoba the annual
meeting of the European Association of Middle
East Librarians (MELCom). It was the second
time that MELCom was held in Spain, after an
interval of twenty years. MELCom originally
began in the United Kingdom in 1979, to bring
together professionals working with material in
Arabic, Turkish and Persian at libraries and
archives in that country. There were representatives of university libraries, the British Library
and specialist libraries. That same year, international contacts began with their European
colleagues, and it then became an international forum promoting the exchange of ideas in
the field of librarianship and maintaining contacts with professionals in the Arab world. The
2010 annual conference, held in Córdoba,
focused on the presentation of new experiences, progress with the digital scanning of
collections, collaboration between institutions
from different countries, the restoration of documents and the presentation of databases of
interest. Taking part in the meeting were:
Ahmed Abu-Zayed (Qatar Foundation), Victoria
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Alberola (“Félix María Pareja” Islamic Library,
Spanish Agency for International Development
Cooperation – AECID, Spain), Elizabeth Baudin
(Yale University, USA), Azzedine Bouderbane
(Constantine University, Algeria), Kamel
Boukerzaza (Constantine University, Algeria),
Mohamad Eliwa (Arabia Inform, Giza, Egypt),
Félix García (Sampedrano Technological
Institute – ITS, Spain), Melek Gençboyaci
(Millet Yazma Eserler Library, Istanbul),
Stéphane Ipert (Book Conservation Centre,
Arles, France), Ahmed Ksibi (Documentation
Centre, Tunisia), Robert Lee (East View
Information Services, USA), Jaime López (Casa
Árabe, Spain), Peter Magiersky (New York
University Library, USA), Pilar Martínez Olmo
(Tomás Navarro Tomás Library, Human and
Social Sciences Center – CCHS, CSIC, Spain),
Cihan Okuyucu (Yildiz University, Istanbul),
Geoffrey Roper (London), Nuria Torres Santo
Domingo (Casa Árabe), Sadik Yazar (Istanbul
University) and Sara Yontan (National Library of
France).
Farah Pandith in the first conference of the CEDAR network.
entrepreneurs, media representatives, opinion
leaders and politicians to debate the future of
Muslim leadership and cultural pluralism in
Europe.
The conference brought together experts,
entrepreneurs, representatives of the communications media and the Government.
Furthermore, in collaboration with the British
Council programme Our Shared Europe
CEDAR Conference
The Connecting European Dynamic Achievers
and Role-Models – European Muslim
Professionals Network, (CEDAR network) is
the first network of Muslim professionals in
Europe. Created as an initiative of the Institute
for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and the Salzburg
Global Seminar in November, 2008, CEDAR
aspires to represent a new generation of
young professional European Muslims with
the aim of strengthening their influence in professional, political and social networks.
On October 30th, Casa Árabe, at its Madrid
headquarters, welcomed the first conference
of the CEDAR network, which brought together
Meeting of experts on the
development of religious
instruction and religious
institutions in Europe
Casa Árabe, at its Madrid headquarters,
organized this seminar with the ISD, a
London-based independent think-tank working with governments, entrepreneurs, media
and universities to develop responses to the
main security and socioeconomic challenges
of our times, and relaunch Europe’s ability to
act on the international stage.
A varied group of scholars, specialists and
representatives of different European countries took part, in order to evaluate and assess
the needs of the communities and the support
they may require for developing curricula and
institutions, with specific emphasis on the
European Muslim communities.
V Mediterranean Meeting
on Human Rights dedicated
to the tensions between
freedom and security
Mahinur Özdemir in the first conference of the CEDAR network.
Casa Árabe, the Pablo Iglesias Foundation,
the Jean Jaurès Foundation, the Friedrich
Ebert Foundation and the Moroccan Centre
for Study and Research in the Social
Sciences held this seminar at the University
of Rabat on March 12th and 13th. The imperatives of security and public order have often
served as an excuse to limit citizens’ rights
and freedoms. The seminar was intended to
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analyze this dynamic from different points of
view. Those who took part were: Antoni
Segura i Mas (Barcelona University), Abdallah
Saaf (Centre for Study and Research in the
Social Sciences, Rabat), Said Benarbia
(International Commission of Jurists,
Geneva), Abdelmoneim Dilami (Director of
L’Economiste), Kamal Abbas (Centre of
Services for Unions and Workers, Egypt),
Aïcha Belarbi (Mohamed V University, Rabat),
Abderrahim Maslouhi (Mohammed V
University, Rabat), Manuel Cancio (UAM),
Mohamed Amr El Shobaki (Al-Ahram Centre
for Strategic and Political Studies, Egypt),
Jawad Skalli (Moroccan Forum for Truth and
Justice, Morocco), Mustapha El Khalfi (Editor
of the al-Tajdid daily newspaper), Carmen
Rodríguez (UAM), Salem Musbah Musa AlQubailat (Centre for Human Rights Studies,
Jordan), Bouchaib Doulkifel (Consultative
Council for Human Rights, Morocco), Michel
Tubiana (Euromediterranean Human Rights
Network), M. Ahmed Aït Taleb (Directorate
General of National Security, Morocco),
Enrique Guerrero (MEP representing Spain),
Abdellali Hamidin (Tangiers University) and
Mustapha Iznasni (Consultative Council for
Human Rights, Morocco).
Colloquium on Dialogue
as a tool for peace and
development in Israel and
Palestine
As an initiative of the Economic and Social
Council (CES), with the collaboration of Casa
Árabe and Casa Sefarad, the CES headquarters in Madrid hosted a seminar to underline
the need to devise scenarios for co-operation
and participation of the economic and social
agents to accompany the political resolution of
the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The participants
were: Marcos Peña (CES of Spain), Hanna
Sinniora (CES of Palestine), Yehuda Talmon
(CES of Israel), Federico Mayor Zaragoza
(Culture of Peace Foundation), Shlomo Ben
Ami (Toledo International Centre for Peace)
and Walid Salem (Centre for Democracy and
Community Development, Palestine).
Reform and governance
in the Arab countries
that international organizations bear in mind at
the moment of evaluating how political systems and administrations function in the
processes of human development. Basically,
the question being asked concerns the close
relationship between development and
democracy. The seminar centred on this topic
in the context of the Arab countries. Casa
Árabe and the French Institute of International
Relations (IFRI) organized this international
seminar in February at its Madrid headquarters, with the participation of: Gema Martín
Muñoz (Casa Árabe), Salam Kawakibi (ArabReform Initiative – ARI), Silvia Escobar
(Special Ambassador for Human Rights,
MAEC), Haizam Amirah Fernández (Real
Instituto Elcano, Madrid), Mervat Rishmawi
(legal expert, London), Christina Kausch
(Foundation for International Relations and
External Dialogue – FRIDE, Madrid), Sophie
Bessis (researcher associated with the
Institute of International and Strategic
Relations, Paris), Khadija Mohsen-Finan (IFRI,
Paris) and Walid Alkhatib (Centre for Strategic
Studies in Jordan).
Governance, frequently qualified by the adjective democratic, has become one of the keys
Thierry Fabre and Gema Martín Muñoz in the seminar Thinking the Mediterranean in the 21st century.
Thinking the Mediterranean
in the 21st Century
The Mediterranean condenses history and
myths, affinities and cooperation, tensions and
breaches, and is also the scene of conflicts. In
the framework of a multidisciplinary and
regional project, this seminar considered different aspects that may make it possible to lay
the foundations for a new way of tackling
analyses of the Mediterranean. The seminar,
organized by Casa Árabe in collaboration with
the Ramses2 Euromediterranean research network, took place in April 2010. Those who took
part were: Gema Martín Muñoz (Casa Árabe),
Thierry Fabre (Scientific Coordinator of the
network), Karima Direche-Slimani (National
Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS),
Jacques Berque Centre, Morocco), Alexandre
Toumarkine (Institute of Anatolian Studies,
Turkey), Daho Djerbal (Algiers University),
Stéphane Michonneau (Casa Velázquez),
Salvatore Palidda (Genoa University), Michel
Péraldi (Jacques Berque Centre, Morocco),
Cédric Parizot (CNRS, Jerusalem), Lev
Grinberg (Ben Gurion University, Israel), Marc
Hecker (IFRI, Paris), Rafael Escudero (King
Charles III University, Madrid), Mohamed
Janjar
(King
Abdulaziz
Foundation,
Casablanca), Mohamed Tozy (Hassan II
University, Morocco; Institute of Political
Studies (IEP), France) and Dionigi Albera
(CNRS and Institute of Mediterranean and
Comparative Ethnology (IDEMEC), France).
Media and Citizenship:
Transnational Television
Cultures Reshaping Political
Identities in the European
Union
Daho Djerbal intervenes in the seminar Thinking the
Mediterranean in the 21st Century.
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As part of a European project promoted by
several universities, this workshop was held on
May 22nd at Casa Árabe, Madrid, dedicated to
analyzing the role of the Arab audio-visual
media and changes to the identity of emigrants
of Arab origin in Spain. Myria Georgiou
(London School of Economics) and Christine
Slade (Utrecht University) were also present at
the workshop, which was co-ordinated by the
London School of Economics, the Utrecht
University, Örebro Universitet, Sorbonne
Nouvelle-Paris II and the University of Leeds.
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Salam Kawakibi and Virginie Collombier in the seminar The reform of the security sector in the Arab world, a comparative analysis with Spain and Latin America.
The reform of the security
sector in the Arab world,
a comparative analysis with
Spain and Latin America
All processes of political reform and democratization have to consider the role of the security sector. This seminar, held in Madrid on
November 4th and 5th by Casa Árabe and the
Arab Reform Initiative – ARI, allowed a comparison of the experiences of Spain and Latin
America with the incipient processes taking
place in some Arab states. The participants
were: Gema Martín Muñoz (Casa Árabe),
Bassma Kodmani (ARI), Salam Kawakibi (ARI),
Virginie Collombier (ARI), Sufian Obeidat (a
lawyer from Jordan), Antoni Segura
(Barcelona University), Rafael Martínez
(Barcelona University), Haydar Ibrahim
(Sudanese Studies Center, Sudan), M. Kadry
Saïd (Al Ahram Center for Political and
Strategic Studies, Egypt), Mohammad
Mikhlafi (Yemen Observatory for Human
Rights, Yemen), Aram Merguizian (Arleigh A.
Burke Chair in Strategy, Center for Strategic
and International Studies, USA), Jessica
Watkins (War Studies Department, King’s
College, UK), Lucia Dammert (Global
Consortium on Security Transformation –
GCST, Chile), Eboe Hutchful (GCST, Ghana),
Robin Luckham (GCST, UK), Renaud Detalle
(High Commissioner for Human Rights,
Lebanon), Azmi Shuaibi (Amman Center,
Palestine), Marcela Donadio (Security and
Defence of Latin America network, Argentina),
Markus
Gottsbacher
(International
Development Research Center, Canada),
Charaf Ahmimed (International Development
Research Center, Canada), Liza Zúñiga (Latin
American Faculty of Social Sciences – FLACSO, Chile), Manar Slimi Abderrahim (Centre
for Study and Research in the Social
Sciences, Morocco), Mustafa Adib (Lebanon)
and Noha Bakr (Egypt).
The effects of the crisis on
immigrants in Spain: the case
of the Moroccan population
Liza Zúñiga at the seminar The reform of the security sector in the
Arab world, a comparative analysis with Spain and Latin America.
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Seminar organized by Casa Árabe and the
Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad
(CCME), with the collaboration of the
Secretary of State for Immigration and
Emigration.
Seminar The effects of the crisis on immigrants in Spain: the case of the Moroccan population.
The seminar brought together a group of specialists, union representatives, immigrant
associations and Moroccan and Spanish institutions, with the aim of analyzing the extent to
which the economic crisis is affecting the
population of Moroccan immigrants in Spain,
and evaluating the measures and policies put
in place for this contingency, as well as those
which should be taken both by the social
agents and public institutions. The seminar
was opened by Gema Martín Muñoz, Director
General of Casa Árabe, Driss El Yazami,
President of the CCME, Mohamed Ameur,
Deputy Minister reporting to the Prime
Minister on the Moroccan Community
Resident Abroad, and Estrella Rodríguez
Pardo, Director General of Integration for
Immigrants. Taking part in the seminar,
among others, were: Mohammed A. Haïdour,
member of the CCME; Miguel Pajares, professor in the University of Barcelona; Walter
Actis, Member of the Ioé Collective;
Abdelhamid Fatihi, of the National Agency for
Promoting
Work
and
Competences
(ANAPEC), Morocco; Sakina Souleimani,
President of the Association of Heads of
Intercultural Mediation; Abdelhamid El Jamri,
President
of
the
Working
Group
Administration and Users’ Rights of the
CCME; Ana Corral, Head of the Confederal
Migration Department of the General Union of
Workers trade union (UGT); Concha Rojo,
assistant to the Confederal Secretariat of
Work and Migrations of the Workers’
Commissions Trade Union (CC.OO.);
Mohammed Chaib, member of the Catalonian
Regional Parliament and member of the
CCME; Mokhtar Ferdaoussi, member of the
CCME; Mina Rouch, member of the CCME;
Juan Ignacio Castién Maestro, lecturer at the
Complutense University of Madrid; and
Mohammed Charef, Director of the Regional
Observatory of Migrations, Spaces and
Societies (ORMES) of Morocco.
Forum 2010
Casa Árabe contributed various activities to
Forum 2010, organized by the Culture of
Peace Foundation and held in Santiago de
Compostela from December 3rd to 15th.
Forum 2010 was an initiative originally promoted by the Galician Education for Peace
Seminar and the Culture of Peace Foundation,
presided over by Federico Mayor Zaragoza.
Casa Árabe collaborated in the organization of
the Forum 2010 with their participation in the
presentation of the meeting of the United
Nations High Level Group for the Alliance of
Civilizations, as well as the screening of the
film cycle Tales from Iraq and the exhibition
From Saladin to Scheherazade. The Orient in
Comics. In the framework of the World
Education Forum, which was held as part of
the Forum 2010 programme, Casa Árabe
invited the Egyptian academic Mohamed
Kazem to participate.
Human Development
and the Knowledge Society
in the Arab countries
A lecture series organized in Madrid,
Córdoba, Barcelona and Alicante. The first
lecture was dedicated to human security
and was delivered by Mustapha Kamel alSayyid, lecturer in Political Science at the
University of Cairo and principal consultant
for the Report on Arab Human Development
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2nd International Congress on HispanoAfrican Literary Studies (Alcalá de Henares,
October 5th to 8th). The following Moroccan
researchers and writers took part: Ahmed
Ararou (Rabat), Ahmed El Gamoun (Oujda)
and Abderrahman El Fathi (Tangiers).
4th International Congress on Islamic
Feminism, organized by the Catalan Islamic
Council (Madrid, October 22nd to 24th).
27th Congress of Journalists from the Strait
on Union by the Mediterranean (Three Cultures
Foundation, Seville, October 21st to 24th).
Lecture on Iraq in the cycle Human development and Knowledge Society in the Arab states.
2009 of the UNDP. The second lecture was
dedicated to Iraq and presented the conclusions of the latest report on human
development in Iraq and the current situation of the country. It was delivered by Amal
Shlash, Director of the Department of
Economics of Bayt al-Hikma in Baghdad
and main author of the report Iraq: national
report on the state of human development
2008, and Adib Nehmeh, Adviser to the
United Nations Economic and Social
Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) in
Beirut. The third lecture dealt with the
question of knowledge, education and the
new technologies in the Arab world, with
the participation of Ghaith Fariz, Director of
the UNDP project, Report on Arab knowledge,
and Nagla Rizk, a lecturer in Economics
at the American University of Cairo. The
fourth and last lecture was dedicated to
Algeria and was delivered by Nasser Djabi,
lecturer in Sociology at Algiers University,
who spoke on the question of teaching,
gender and society in Algeria and the
obstacles to the emergence of a female
elite in the country.
International Encounter on Immigrants in
Theatre, organized by the Teatro de la
Abadía. Gema Martín Muñoz (Casa Árabe)
took part with a paper on the participation
of immigrants as creators in their host
country (Teatro de la Abadía, October 26th
to 29th).
Meeting of Friends of Gilboa-Jenin, in collaboration with Casa Sefarad. The mayors of the
localities of Gilboa (Israel), Daniel Attar, and
Jenin (West Bank), Moussa Qadura, who have
spent years collaborating in dialogue and economic co-operation projects, visited Spain in
order to share this experience (Madrid,
February 11th).
DesignNet Workshops. Casa Árabe, in collaboration with Madrid City Council and the
European Design Institute (Istituto Europeo
di Design, IED), hosted during one week the
workshops of the Madrid DesignNet programme, a network of creative designers,
universities and schools from all over the
world intended to disseminate design
trends and innovation and experimentation
at world level in this sphere. The workshops
focused on the motto of the Universal
Exhibition of Shanghai 2010: “Better city,
better life” (May 17th to 21st).
1st Assembly of the Citizens of the
Mediterranean. Citizens’ dialogues: institutions
and citizenship in the Mediterranean. Organized
by the Valencian NGO International Centre
for Rural Studies and Agriculture (CERAI), the
European Movement and the European
University of Tirana, with the aim of discussing new forms of horizontal civic relations and trans-Mediterranean co-operation
in order to create a more effective structure
for civic participation in Mediterranean matters (Valencia, June 2nd to 4th).
Collaboration on
other initiatives
23rd Edition of the Festival of the South
(Agüimes). Casa Árabe invited Daho Djerbal
(Algiers University) to take part in the conference 50 years of Independence in Africa.
17th Annual Symposium of the Spanish
Society for Arab Studies (Teruel, October 1st
to 3rd). Award of the Young Researchers
Prize, bestowed by Casa Árabe.
Adib Nehmeh takes part in the lecture series Human development
and the knowledge society in the Arab states.
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SOS Racism Association. Round table on
Islamophobia, with the participation of Sirin
Adlbi (researcher at UAM) and Elena Arigita
(Casa Árabe).
Manuel Torres Aguilar, Magdalena Reifs López and Mustapha Kamel al-Sayyid at a lecture in Córdoba in the cycle on Human development and the knowledge society in the Arab countries.
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the tribune. lectures and round tables
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AND ROUND TABLES
María Dolors García-Ramón, European women
travellers in the Arab world. A gaze from postcolonial and cultural geography (Gertrude Bell, 18681926). With the participation of Manuela Marín.
Madrid, February 11th.
José Miguel Puerta Vílchez, Current Arab calligraphy: tradition and modernity. Madrid, March
17th.
General Michel Aoun, The role of Christians in
Lebanon and the Middle East. Presentation by
Gema Martín Muñoz. Madrid, April 20th.
Gema Martín Muñoz, Mila Hernández-Pezzi,
José Luis Infanzón Priore, Luis Maldonado
Ramos, El Montacir Bensaid, Diego Moya and
Fernando Porras Isla, Presentation of the
Yusur-Puentes project: architecture and landscape in Morocco and Spain. Madrid, April
30th.
Dolors Bramon, on the occasion of the opening of the course The foundations of power in
classical Islam. Islam and the Muslims: historical
perspective and contemporary dynamics.
Madrid, 4th of May.
Nasser Djabi and Rafael Bustos, Algeria:
teaching, gender and society, obstacle to the
emergence of a female elite. Madrid, May 4th,
and Alicante, May 5th.
Lahouari Addi, Sociology of present-day Algeria:
viewed through the work of Pierre Bourdieu.
Madrid, May 26th.
Mohamed Ali, Hafid Aarab, Mohammed Chaib
Akhdim and Gabriel Jairodín Riaza,
Representation and leadership in the Muslim communities in Spain. Presentation by José Manuel
López Rodrigo, Gema Martín Muñoz and José
Mª Ferré de la Peña. Madrid, June 1st.
Mohammad Ghafour Azizpour, Mohammadi
Arman, Isabel Muñoz and Pablo Beneito,
Asceticism, sacrifice and ecstasy in Islamic mysticism. Madrid, June 15th.
From left to right and from top to bottom: Mehmet Asutay, Umer Chapra, Amal Slash, Ebtehal Younes, Meir Margalit, Elias Sanbar, Dolors Bramon, Mahmud Reda,
Farida Fahmy, Maria Dolors García-Ramón, Youssef Akmir, Christine McNab, José Miguel Puerta Vílchez, Franco Cardini, Yakup Atila, Javier de Lucas, William Chislett,
General Michel Aoun, Khair El Din Hasib, Gaith Fariz, Nagla Rizk, José Antonio Martínez de Villareal Baena, Abdenasser Djabi, Omaim Abou Bakr, Lahouari Addi,
José Manuel López Rodrigo, Hafid Aarab, Mohammadi Arman, Sami Ibrahim Al-Suwailem and Diego Moya.
Gema Martín Muñoz, Enrique del Olmo, Marc
Richir, José Manuel Albares, Arnaldo Lopes,
Mousthapa Sow, Jeff Dayton-Johnson, Ralph
Genetzke, Alexandre Berthaud and Sara
Bayes Puig, Rabat Action Plan: proposals for a
migration at the service of development. Madrid,
June 16th.
Sami Ibrahim Al-Suwailem, Volker Nienhaus,
Mehmet Asutay, Ibrahim Zeyyad Cekici and
Juan Bernal, Islamic banking in the context of
ethical finance, what potential can it have in
Spain? Round table held in the international
seminar Beyond the crisis: Islamic finance in the
new financial order, organized with the IE
Business School and the King Abdulaziz
University of Saudi Arabia. Madrid, June
17th.
Mahmud Reda and Farida Fahmy, Mahmud
Reda: a life in dance. Screening of the film
Love in Karnak, by Ali Reda. Madrid, June
28th.
Jordi Moreras, The geographies of Islam.
Madrid, September 6th.
Khair El Din Hasib, Expectations for democracy
in the Arab world. Madrid, September 21st.
Aitzaz Ahsan, Pakistan, between the Middle East
and Southern Asia. Madrid, October 20th.
Omaima Abour Bakr and Abdessamad
Dialmy, Islamic Feminisms. Plural realities and
perspectives. Madrid, October 26th.
Gema Martín Muñoz, Elham Manea, Andrés
Martínez Lorca and Ebtehal Younes, In memory of Nasr Abu Zayd, master of critical thought.
Madrid, November 15th.
Elías Sanbar, Meir Margalit, Gema Martín
Muñoz and Ramón Ansoain. Jerusalem.
Symbol and stumbling block. Madrid, November
23rd.
Youssef Akmir, From Algeciras to Tetouan.
The origins of Spanish colonialism in the north of
Morocco. Presentation by María Rosa de
Madariaga and Francisco Javier Martínez
Antonio. Madrid, December 9th.
Franco Cardini, The Three Kings of the Orient.
History and legend. Madrid, December 15th
and Seville, December 16th.
Gema Martín Muñoz, Javier de Lucas, Yakup
Atila Eralp and William Chislett, The cost of not
admitting Turkey to the European Union. Madrid,
December 16th.
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the bookstand. book launches and debates
42 THE BOOKSTAND. BOOK LAUNCHES
AND DEBATES
Rocío Rojas-Marcos, Tangiers. The international city. With the participation of Emilio
González Ferrín and Ramón Buenaventura.
Madrid, January 12th.
Juan José Tamayo, Islam: culture, religion and
politics. With the participation of Mohamed
Ridha Kechrid, Pedro Martínez Montávez,
Carmen Ruiz Bravo-Villasante and Alejandro
Sierra. Madrid, February 9th.
Alberto Elena, The call of Africa. Studies on
Spanish colonial cinema. With the participation
of Manuel Palacio. Madrid, September 28th.
Ferrán Izquierdo Brich (co-ordinator), Power
and religions in the contemporary Arab world.
With the participation of Ramón Cotarelo García
and Eduard Soler i Lecha. Madrid, February 9th.
Tomás Calvo Buezas, Muslims and Christians
living together. How the schoolchildren of Ceuta
and Melilla see it. Presentation by Juan José
Tamayo, Mohatar Mohatar Marzok and
Francisco
Herrera
Clavero.
Madrid,
November 24th.
María Angustias Parejo (co-ordinator), Between
authoritarianism and democracy. Electoral processes
in the Magreb, and Ignacio Álvarez-Ossorio and
Luciano Zaccara (editors), Elections without
choice. Electoral processes in the Middle East and
the Magreb. With the participation of Dieter
Nohlen. Madrid, March 4th.
Gema Martín Muñoz and Sophie Bessis (editors). Women and family in contemporary Arab
societies. With the participation of Khadija
Mohsen-Finan. Madrid, March 16th.
Tariq Ali, Conversations with Edward Said. With
the participation of Gema Martín Muñoz and
Valeria Ciompi. Madrid, March 24th.
Conversation with the Lebanese poet Abbas
Baydoun and reading of his poems. With the
participation of Luz Gómez García and Jordi
Doce. Madrid, April 20th.
Presentation of the new number of Awraq.
Revista de Análisis y Pensamiento sobre el
Mundo Árabe e Islámico Contemporáneo
[Journal of analysis and ideas about the contemporary Arab and Islamic world]. With the
participation of Gema Martín Muñoz, Carlos
Alberdi, François Burgat and Mona MakramEbeid. Madrid, April 20th.
Andrés Martínez Lorca, Averroes: the wise
Cordovan who enlightened Europe. With the
participation of Mahmud Ali Makki and
Antonio de Egipto Suárez. Madrid, May 19th,
and Córdoba, November 2nd.
From left to right and from top to bottom: Alejandro Sierra, Pedro Martínez Montávez, Juan José Tamayo, Milagros Nuin, Eloy Martín Corrales, Khaled Al Khamissi,
Mourad Zarrouk, María Angustias Parejo, Ignacio Álvarez-Ossorio, Dieter Nohlen, Sophie Bessis, Tariq Ali; Abbas Baydoun, Mona Makram Ebeid, François Burgat,
Andrés Martínez Lorca, Nieves Paradela, Waleed Saleh, Alberto Elena, Rocío Rojas-Marcos.
Mourad Zarrouk, The translators of Spain in
Morocco (1859-1939). With the participation of
Francisco Moscoso, Manuela Marín, Bernabé
López García and Eloy Martín Corrales.
Madrid, June 30th.
Waleed Saleh, Love, sexuality and marriage in
Islam. With the participation of Fernando Marías
and Nieves Paradela. Madrid, June 2nd.
Khaled Al Khamissi and Milagros Nuin, The current
Arab novel, a flourishing genre. Presentation by
Isaías Barreñada. Madrid, November 25th.
Participation in book fairs
This year too, Casa Árabe has taken part in the
book fairs of Córdoba (April), Seville (May),
Madrid (May-June), Barcelona (July) in the
framework of the World Congress of Studies on
the Middle East and North Africa (WOCMES),
and in the International Book Fair (FIL) of
Guadalajara (Mexico). For the first time Casa
Árabe has taken part in the book fair of Granada
(April) sharing a stand with the Three Cultures
Foundation and Casa Árabe’s bookshop.
In Córdoba, within the activities programmed
for the Readings cycle of the Book Fair of the
Cosmopoetics International Poetry Festival,
the poets invited to this festival by Casa Árabe,
Abbas Beydoun and Fatima Naoot, took part in
two recitals. In Seville, there was a reading of
narrative and poetry under the title Literary
American Arabia, on Arab traces in Latin
American literature, and with the presence of
the Cuban writer Luis Rafael Hernández.
In the Guadalajara International Book Fair,
Casa Árabe had its own stand and organized
activities with two Arab authors: the Egyptian
Khaled El Khamissi and the Lebanese woman
writer Zeina Abirached. Taking advantage of
the stay of these authors in Mexico, their work
was presented in Mexico City at the Casa
Refugio, a cultural institution dedicated to promoting world literature not generally accessible
to the Mexican people, such as Arab literature.
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education and activities for children
44 EDUCATION
AND ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN
Workshop encouraging reading in the Kan ya makan programme.
Casa Árabe carries out various activities of an
educational nature in keeping with the goals
of the institution: to help Spanish society get
to know their Arab neighbours better, have a
bearing on the perceptions they have of these
countries and peoples and make this the basis
for establishing different kinds of relationship
between citizens and societies.
Among these activities, the most outstanding
are those aimed at a young audience.
Educational sessions have been organized
(calligraphy sessions, introduction to Arab
music, stories, etc.) in state-funded primary,
secondary and special education centres in
Madrid
(Vallecas,
Hortaleza,
RivasVaciamadrid, Boadilla del Monte, Collado
Villalba), Andalusia and Castilla-La Mancha
(Illescas).
Storyteller in the programme Journey with the Three Kings of Orient.
Programmes aimed at children are organized
on designated dates at the Madrid headquarters of Casa Árabe. The Journey with the
Three Kings of The Orient programme takes
place at the beginning of January; this year it
consisted of a workshop on illustrating The
Three Kings and Father Christmas’s travel notebook, with Emily Nudd-Mitchell and a show
with stories, shadows and music by the group
Halka. For the Ramadan Nights programme, a
workshop with puppets and games from
around the world was put on (with the
Association for Culture and Development
Cooperation – CUCO), a football tournament
was sponsored (with the Ibn Batuta Social and
Cultural Association), as was the show
Boqalas, the oracle (with the “La Nave de los
Locos” Cultural and Artistic Association). At
the same time, educational lectures were
organized in Madrid, Getafe and Esquivias
(Toledo). In October, the Kan ya makan
(“Once upon a time”) programme was held to
celebrate the district of Salamanca festivities.
This edition organized workshops to encourage reading, cinema for children and a storytelling show, Roken Al-Hakawati (‘The storyteller’s corner’), by the storytellers Mohamed
Hammu and Bopi Ofogo.
For adults, workshops introducing calligraphy
were held in various neighbourhoods of Madrid
and in Córdoba, within Madrid City Council’s
programme Solidarity is Everyone’s Business,
and also in Almodóvar del Río, to coincide with
the 1st “Zoco de la Encantá”. Casa Árabe has
collaborated in music events with the Al Bidaya
Association (Vigo) and the IE Business School
Lebanese Club (Madrid) and given informative
talks in various districts of the city of Madrid, in
Esquivias (Toledo) and Montánchez (Cáceres).
Casa
Árabe
collaborated
with
the
Departments of Arab Studies at the
Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) and
the Complutense University in Madrid (UCM),
jointly organizing Arab cinema sessions followed by discussion.
At the request of Spanish businesses undertaking activities in Arab countries, workshops
have been organized for their professionals
and employees with the aim of shedding light
on Arab cultures; this has been the case of the
companies VIZA Automoción and Inergy
Automotive Systems, based in Vigo, from the
vehicle sector (July).
The educational exhibition Maghreb, the Arab
west, consisting of 58 photographs accompanied by explanatory texts, has gone round cultural and educational centres in various towns
in Madrid (Chamartín district, Collado Villalba),
Ávila (Arévalo, Adanero, Langa, Horcajo de las
Torres, Cabizuela, Pajares de Adaja, Madrigal
de las Altas Torres), Toledo (Campillo de la
Jara), Córdoba and Jaén.
Casa Árabe has received visits from different
groups of children, young people and adults,
from associations, primary schools, cultural centres and centers for senior citizens, interested in
getting to know the institution and its activities.
In 2010, Casa Árabe received visits from primary
and secondary school pupils, groups of university students and postgraduates, senior
citizens involved in continuing education, cultural centres and women’s associations.
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american arabia
46 AMERICAN ARABIA
readings of the present, chaired by Gema
Martín Muñoz and Sergio Moya, from the
School of Political Science of the UCR.
In Cuba, the two books were launched in collaboration with the House of Arabs at the
Office of the Historian in Havana, and with the
participation of its director Rigoberto
Menéndez Paredes, author of a chapter in
both books. Casa Árabe’s activities in Cuba
also included the film season on The first steps
of Egyptian Cinema, screened in the Lumière
Movie Theatre in Havana. Also as part of Casa
Árabe’s programme of activities in the
Caribbean, the film cycle Urban cartographies
was organized and curated by Casa Árabe at
the Dominican Film Library, with the collaboration of the Global Democracy and
Development Foundation (FUNGLODE).
José Luís Mejías presents Los caminos del mascate (The paths of
the peddler).
This programme began in January with the
presentation of the books Arabs in Latin
America: a history of emigration, and Arab contributions to Ibero-American identities, published by Casa Árabe, at the Instituto
Cervantes in Rabat and in Casablanca. The
works were accompanied by the film Tiro
Libre (Free Kick) by Chilean director Marcelo
Piña, and were presented by Gema Martín
Muñoz, Director General of Casa Árabe,
along with Abdeluahed Akmir, director of
the al-Andalus Study Centre and Dialogue
of Civilizations in Rabat, and Silvia
Montenegro, a researcher with the National
Council for Scientific Research in Argentina.
In March, 2010, both books were presented
at the Instituto Cervantes in Damascus.
Pablo Armando Fernández, Luis Fayad, Rigoberto Menéndez Paredes at the Beirut Book Fair.
On the other side of the Atlantic, in collaboration with the Spanish Cultural Centre in
Costa Rica, both books were presented in
February 2010, with the participation of one
of the authors, Roberto Marín Guzmán and
Gema Martín Muñoz. This programme was
complemented by the film cycle Arabs and
Americans, curated by Casa Árabe. In addition, on February 11th, Expulsados 1609. La
tragedia de los moriscos (Expelled 1609 – the
tragedy of the Moriscos) was screened at
the University of Costa Rica (UCR), followed by the debate Lessons of the past,
At the beginning of September, Casa Árabe
took part, with the Iraqi poet Abdul Hadi
Sadoun, in the International Poetry and
Diversities Encounter organized by the
Department of Literature of the University of
Chile, an institution with which Casa Árabe
signed an agreement in 2008.
At the same time, American Arabia produced an audio-visual documentary to
Michel Sleiman takes part in the presentation of Los caminos del
mascate (The paths of the peddler).
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accompany its research into the Arab
presence in the Americas. And so the
curator and visual anthropologist José
Luis Mejías was commissioned to make
Los caminos del mascate (The paths of the
peddler), a documentary in which, through
a series of interviews in four regions of
Brazil, one can see examples of the integration of Arab immigrants into the host
society. In this way, the work became a
historical review of the stages of the country’s prosperity, in which Arab shopkeepers are defined as active participants in its
development.
The cycle Arabs of Brazil was organized by
Casa Árabe with the collaboration of the
Hispano-Brazilian Cultural Foundation in
Spain, the Vivamérica Festival of Casa de
América, the Experimentaclub festival,
linked to La Casa Encendida, and the
Institute of Arab Culture in São Paulo. The
activities related to Arabs of Brazil ranged
A moment from the performance of Livio Tragtenberg.
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from the exploration of new triangular trade
links to literature and cinema, including the
recovery of the Arab imprint and the multicultural experiments of electronic music.
The cinema season Arabs in America, consisting of four films (Amreeka, Reel Bad
Arabs, A la izquierda del padre [To the left of
the father] Que tus ojos sean atendidos [May
your eyes be served]), was designed to
accompany the activities of this cycle during the month of October. In addition, for
the second consecutive year, an Electronic
American Arabia night was organized with
Experimentaclub, a gathering of Arab and
Ibero-American artists. Casa Árabe commissioned the presentation of Electronic
Esfiha from Livio Tragtenberg (Brazil). The
esfiha is a kind of traditional pizza from
Lebanon and Syria that has become a popular Brazilian dish. Using the esfiha as a
metaphor of racial mixing, Tragtenberg
offers a sound investigation of the Arab
presence in the streets of São Paulo.
Tragtenberg’s work was followed by Tarek
Atoui (Lebanon), who presented Un-drum,
an electronic performance of great intensity based on the composer’s personal experience during the war in Lebanon in July,
2006.
From September 30th to October 9th, 2010,
Casa Árabe organized a visit to Argentina
and Uruguay in order to carry out various
activities and collaborate with different academic, political and cultural institutions in
South America. The multidisciplinary programme for this visit consisted of: the presentation of the journal Awraq at the
Uruguayan Parliament, the screening of the
docudrama Expulsados 1609 in the
Uruguayan Film Library and a lecture in the
Catholic University of Uruguay on The contemporary Arab and Islamic world: debates,
players and dynamics. In Argentina we presented the programme Spanish Moriscos and
Argentinean Arabs in collaboration with the
Tres de Febrero National University
(UNTREF), revolving around the docudrama
Expulsados 1609 and the books on Arabs in
America published by Casa Árabe. The
screening of the film and the inaugural lecture Historical memory and cultural diversity
took place in the Borges Cultural Centre, in
the presence of Rafael Estrella, Spanish
Ambassador to Argentina, and Martín
Kaufmann, UNTREF’s vice president, with
the participation of Gema Martín Muñoz,
Director General of Casa Árabe, José María
Perceval, journalist and historian from the
Autonomous University of Barcelona, and
Hamurabi Noufouri, Director of the Master’s
Degree in Cultural Diversity at UNTREF.
Also, on October 8th, the Argentinean
Centre for International Relations hosted the
lecture The silent revolution of Arab women,
delivered by Gema Martín Muñoz. The
Recoleta Cultural Centre screened the film
cycle Urban cartographies, on the city in the
contemporary Arab world, with the collaboration of the artistic collective Cine Fértil,
dedicated to promoting Arab cinema in
Argentina.
the films Dunia and Open shutters: Iraq dealt
with the situation of Arab women.
In this same spirit of collaboration with cultural initiatives undertaken in the Americas,
Casa Árabe took part at the beginning of
November with two films and two discussion
panels on the Arab presence in Latin America
and North America in the 11th edition of the
Festival of the Arab World (FMA) in Montreal.
Also, the Director General of Casa Árabe
contributed with a text that was published in
the book Arabitudes, edited by the FMA. This
was the second occasion in which Casa
Árabe collaborated with the FMA. A la izquierda del padre was screened by the National
Film Board of Canada, followed by a conversation with the author Rachida M’Faddel and
with Karim Hauser, from Casa Árabe’s
American Arabia programme, on the Arab
presence in Brazil and Latin America. The
second film, Amreeka, was the backdrop to a
conversation with Rachad Antonius, professor of Sociology at the University of Quebec
in Montréal, and May Telmissany, professor
of Arab cinema at the University of Ottawa. In
this talk, the specialists spoke about Arab
integration in Canada and Arab representation in North American cinema.
Zeina Abirached in the International Book Fair in Guadalajara.
As part of the film seasons’ itinerary and to
consolidate the collaboration between Casa
Árabe and the Institute of Arab Culture in São
Paulo, two films were sent to the Arab Cinema
Festival, held in September, 2010. This year,
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the thousand and one nights
50 THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS
White Night of Flamenco
in Córdoba
Casa Árabe took part in the White Night of
Flamenco in Córdoba, organized by the City
Council on June 19th. During that night,
numerous performances took place at
emblematic locations all over the city. Casa
Árabe’s concert was held in the Plaza de
Abades, located just a few metres from the
mosque.
The group invited for the occasion was the
Tarik Banzi Ensemble, comprising Tarik
Banzi, Charlie Bisharet, Julia Banzi and the
flamenco dancer Laura Dubroca. They were
accompanied by Jorge Pardo, invited especially for the occasion.
A second concert by this group was held in
the Contemporary Art Centre in Málaga on
June 20th. To conclude their stay in Spain,
they gave a third concert in the Casa de la
Provincia in Seville, organized in collaboration
with Seville City Council to celebrate the
European Music Day on June 21st.
White Night in Málaga
Casa Árabe took part in the Málaga White
Night, organized by the City Council on May
15th. Egypt Folk Ensemble presented the
show Sounds of the Nile, in which the richness
of Egyptian folklore was shown. Different
musical works and dances were performed
during the show. The concert took place in the
magnificent setting of Gibralfaro Castle.
White Night in Madrid
Performance of BaBa ZuLa in the Madrid Jazz Festival.
As every year, Casa Árabe took part in the
White Night organized by Madrid City Council.
The 2010 edition was held on Saturday,
September 11th, with the participation of the
Wamda company, directed by Nabil Bahgat,
who travelled from Egypt to introduce Casa
Árabe’s audience to the art of shadow puppets. As well as presenting their show over a
number of performances that took place in the
open air at night, the members of the company offered everyone who wanted to come to
our headquarters, a workshop for making this
Egypt Folk Ensemble during the White Night in Málaga.
kind of puppet. Everyone who took part in this
workshop could take away as a gift one of
these magnificent pieces which are characteristic of the traditional Egyptian stage.
Ramadan Nights
For the fourth consecutive year, and so as not
to miss its annual date with Madrid’s audiences, especially the Lavapiés neighbourhood, Casa Árabe organized the Nights of
Ramadan Festival between September 2nd
and 10th. The festival programme included
two concerts by Moroccan Oum and Algerian
Kamel el Harrachi; the screening of various
documentaries produced by Al-Jazeera television channel on the different ways of celebrating Ramadan in different cities of the
world; and the screening in squares and public spaces in Madrid of films for both, adults
and children, respectively, Le gran voyage (The
Journey) by Ismail Ferrukhi, and Azur and
Asmar: The Prince’s Quest, by Michel Ocelot.
An informative lecture was also organized,
The geographies of Islam, delivered by the
anthropologist Jordi Moreras, in which he
spoke about the different branches of Islam,
as well as the cultural differences between
countries and continents with Muslim communities. In this edition, the programme also
included a dance-theatre show produced in
collaboration with the Centre of Hispano-
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texts by Al-Bayati, Majid Abu Gush, Amal
Dunqul, Nizar Qabbani, Adonis, Aicha Bassry,
Widad ben Musa, Nabil Yasin and Mahmud
Darwish.
Theatre Night
Poster for Ramadan Nights.
Moroccan Participation and Integration
(CEPI) on the Boqalas or oracles of Algerian
tradition. And, as every year, the festival programme included different activities aimed at
the very young, like a football tournament or
puppet shows and games from around the
world.
Another of the Madrid dates that Casa
Árabe supported was The Theatre Night,
organized by the Culture, Sport and
Tourism Department of the Madrid Regional
Government. The date of the event was
March 27th, when Casa Árabe hosted the
performance of the play Harragas, directed
by Marina Bollaín. Harragas (The burners) is
the word used in Morocco to refer to people
setting fire to their identity papers before
beginning the great journey to Europe. In
this play the Moroccans who come over to
our side each day climb up on to the stage
to tell us how they arrived in Spain and to
relate what they have done to earn a living,
how they live their religion and their culture,
what music they listen to, etc.
Book Night
On April 23rd, the Book Night was once again
held in Madrid. Casa Árabe’s headquarters
organized the poetry recital Anchoring stars.
The Arab voice in contemporary poetry,
with music by the group Zanfonía. The poetry
reading, in Arabic and Spanish, was conducted by nine readers (Esperanza Bartolomé,
Cristina Estévez, Amalia Herrera, Pilar
Herrero, Isabel Palma, César Jurado, María
Sahuquillo, Lucía Solana and Hussain
Mansour), with musical accompaniment (cellists Irune García and Leticia Hernández) and
STAGE NIGHTS
Caravasar at the Olive Fair
in Montoro
Concert organized by Casa Árabe in the 15th
Olive Fair in Montoro and in collaboration with
the local town council; it took place on May
8th in the Miguel Romero Esteo Municipal
Theatre. Caravasar drinks from the fountain
that has enriched for centuries the artistic her-
Concert by Naseer Shamma and Carlos Piñana on the European Music Day.
itage of the eastern Mediterranean. A programme was drawn up in which songs of the
Balkans, Sufi rhythms from Ottoman Turkey
and dances from the peoples of the Magreb
were recreated and blended with western aesthetic trends.
the Madrid town of Galapagar. This event was
organized by the Hispano-Arabic Association for
Development and Culture. In this conference,
Casa Árabe offered a concert of Gnawa music
by the Moroccan group based in Spain, Basido.
Catalan Culture Week
in Madrid
The celebration of the 3rd Catalan Culture
Week in Madrid, organized by the Blanquerna
Cultural Centre during the month of April, was
the context in which Casa Árabe held, on
Sunday April 25th, a singular concert in its
auditorium, by the Arab Orchestra of
Barcelona,
conducted
by
Mohamed
Soulimane. The artistic wager of this orchestra, born more than six years ago on the initiative of four Moroccan musicians, has always
been closely linked to a desire to divulge the
roots of Arab music and show the enormous
potential for cultural fusion and integration
with Catalonia.
Dorsaf Hamdani
The Arab Orchestra of Barcelona performed in Casa Árabe during the 3rd Catalan Culture Week in Madrid.
In March, Casa Árabe collaborated along with
the Tunisian embassy in organizing a concert
by the Tunisian musician Dorsaf Hamdani
who, with his group, gave a recital in the
Chamber Hall of the National Music
Auditorium of Madrid.
Gnawa music
On June 18th and 19th, the First HispanoMoroccan Integration Conference was held in
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Performance by Oum in the Ramadan Nights Festival 2010.
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Arab Culture in Segovia
The Arab Culture week in Segovia organized
in October by the City Council with the collaboration of Casa Árabe, was structured around
a concert given by the Moroccan singer
Amina Alaoui. This concert in the Church of
San Juan de los Caballeros gave residents
and visitors to Segovia an opportunity to hear
the magnificent voice of this talented artist
whose music is closely linked to the performance of Arabian-Andalusian lyrical song.
Manifesta 8
Amina Alaoui performed in the Segovia Arab Week.
European Music Day
On June 20th and 21st, coinciding with the
European Music Day events convened by
Madrid City Council every year, Casa Árabe
organized a summer concert in the hadiqa
(garden), given by the great Iraqi master of the
Arab lute, Naseer Shamma. The concert was
combined with the flamenco guitar of Carlos
Piñana in a musical dialogue seeking common
paths. Naseer Shamma is considered to be
one of the best lutenist in the world and the
greatest exponent of the Baghdad Modern
School. At the same time, the Spaniard Carlos
Piñana is famous for the delicacy of his
expression and the originality of his rhythmic
structures. The concert was also part of the
programme of the Iraq Week organized by
Casa Árabe.
Raks Festival
As happened the previous year, Casa Árabe
supported a new edition of the Raks Festival
with the show Mahmud Reda. Dances of
Egypt, organized to celebrate the 80th birthday of the Egyptian choreographer. This
event, a performance of traditional dances,
brought together Reda’s most emblematic
choreographies and took place on July 3rd
at the Pilar Bardem Auditorium in RivasVaciamadrid, performed by the Al-Andalus
Dance Company.
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In the month of October, Casa Árabe collaborated with Manifesta 8, the European
Contemporary Art Biennial, held in Cartagena
and Murcia. The 2010 edition was dedicated to
co-operation with North Africa. This collaboration gave rise to the inclusion in the programme
of the work Madame Plaza as one of the opening events of the biennial. Bouchra Ouizguen,
author of the piece, is a choreographer who
regularly organizes collaborations and creative
spaces with different artists from Marrakech. In
her work Madame Plaza, she presented the
work along with Moroccan women singers of
the aïta, traditional music that includes songs
and laments and is usually performed at weddings and festive occasions.
El Arabi Ensemble and Eduardo Paniagua in the Arab music cycle at Madinat al-Zahra.
three brothers who are virtuoso lutenists
(Samir, Wissam and Adnan Joubran), accompanied by the percussionist Youssef Hbeish.
Casa Árabe also collaborated in the festival’s
training programme with the course
Encounter with Arab music, directed and delivered by Jamal Ouassini, and by creating five
scholarships to follow, during the month of
July, the training courses made available by
the Guitar Festival. The scholarships were
intended for Arab students resident in any
Arab country.
Second season of Arab music
in Madinat al-Zahra: From
legacy to innovation
This season of four concerts, organized by
Casa Árabe and the Madinat al-Zahra
Archaeological Site in Córdoba, took place in
the auditorium of the Archaeological Site’s
Museum during the month of November and
included performances by Eduardo Paniagua,
Ensemble Al-Kindi and the dancing dervishes
of Syria, the Moroccan singer Karima Skalli
and, lastly, El Arabi Ensemble and Eduardo
Paniagua with the programme Sufi Andalusian
chants.
Montánchez Encounters
In the context of the Montánchez Encounters
held every year during the month of August,
Casa Árabe organized a concert with the
Algerian musician Kamel el Harrachi and
scheduled the film season Labyrinth of passions: love and desire in Arab cinema. In addition, a workshop in Arab calligraphy was
included in the programme.
The Joubran Trio at the Córdoba Guitar Festival.
Madrid Jazz Festival
As part of the programme for the Madrid Jazz
Festival and coinciding with the special events
put on by Casa Árabe to celebrate Istanbul’s
year as the Cultural Capital of Europe, audiences in Madrid had the chance to enjoy a
highly original performance by the Baba Zula
group. By combining the use of traditional
Turkish instruments with electronic elements,
this group has instilled new life into traditional
Turkish folk music.
Córdoba Guitar Festival
Casa Árabe has been collaborating with the
Guitar Festival since 2007. On this occasion, a
concert was programmed for the Gran Teatro
in Córdoba by the Joubran Trio, consisting of
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cinema
56 CINEMA
Casa Árabe’s cinema programme, Gazes
(Nadharat) has continued in 2010 with the
designing of individual seasons held every
month through collaboration with different film
festivals, both in Spain and abroad. In addition, just as occurred in 2009, we have
increased the itineraries of our cycles in Spain
and the Americas, as well as screenings carried out in collaboration with a multitude of initiatives and cultural events organized by other
entities.
The main novelties in 2010 were the following: the screening of Casanegra, Spanish premiere; the Palestinian movie marathon on the
occasion of the anniversary of the Nakba; the
Cinema Biographies cycle, dedicated to films
on important personalities in Arab social, cultural and political life: Umm Kalthoum, l’Astre
de l’Orient (Umm Kalthoum, the Star of the
Orient), A road to Mecca. The journey of
Muhammad Asad, Mahmoud Darwish: As the
land is the language and A la recherche de
l’Emir Abd El-Kader (In search of emir Abd ElKader); the Panorama of contemporary Arab
documentary cinema, on this occasion under
the title Spaces in the Middle East; the Oriental
Fantasies cycle, curated by Alberto Elena; the
cycle Tales from the Bosphorus. Istanbul in the
new Turkish cinema; and EuroBa, about Arabs
from and in Europe, curated by Laila and
Nadia Hotait.
Poster from the cycle Arab cinema in the present day.
During 2010 there have been a good number of collaborations with cultural or educational entities and film festivals in our country that dedicate part of their programme to
films from the Arab world: the Ayam Beirut
Festival, organized by the Lebanese association Beirut DC; Tarifa African Cinema
Festival; the San Sebastian Cinema in
motion Festival; the 2nd Festival of Political
Cinema directed by Women; the 1st
Festival of Palestinian Cinema, organized
by the Handala Association; the season on
The Mudéjars and their time through documentary cinema, organized by the University
of Zaragoza; the show organized by the
Biladi Palestinian Cultural Centre: the
Marrocfest, organized in Barcelona; the
Seminar on Syria held by the Three
Cultures Foundation; the screening in
Córdoba of the documentary Sólo las horas
[Only the Hours] by Pepa Rubio, in collaboration with the Andalusian Regional
Government, the University of Córdoba and
the Andalusian Film Library; as well as various screenings in the Complutense or
Autonomous Universities of Madrid, or in
collaboration with the Toledo School of
Translators, Segovia City Council and Casa
Mediterráneo.
Finally, it is important also to point out that
during 2010 there have been numerous
screenings in Spain and abroad of the film
Expulsados 1609. La Tragedia de los Moriscos
(Expelled 1609. The tragedy of the moriscos),
produced by Casa Árabe in 2010 to commemorate the 4th Centenary of the Expulsion of
the Moriscos from Spain.
Postcard from the EuroBa cycle.
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exhibitions
58 EXHIBITIONS
2010 saw the beginning of the exhibition
Jerusalem at the beginning of the 20th century,
which had been launched at the end of 2009
to commemorate Jerusalem, Arab Cultural
Capital 2009. The photographs which made
up the exhibition, the majority dating from
the first decades of the 20th century, come
from the photographic archive of the French
Biblical and Archaeological School. To
complement this, an exhibition of costumes
from the private collection of Spain’s
Ambassador Juan Durán-Lóriga, that constitute a magnificent example of Palestinian
ethnographical heritage. After the closing of
the exhibition at the Madrid headquarters, it
was displayed at the Museum of Jaén,
between April and May, and in the halls of
the Teatro Cómico Principal in Córdoba,
between October and November.
March marked the beginning of an educational exhibition under the title From Saladin
to Scheherazade: the Orient in Comics, which
consisted of an exploration of how the
Orient and its protagonists have been presented down the years, in the different
graphic novels published in Spanish. The
exhibition, curated by Carlos Figuerola, lecturer in the Department of Journalism at the
Faculty of Communication Sciences of the
Autonomous University of Barcelona, also
had scientific input from José María
Perceval, a historian and journalist specializing in studies on xenophobia and racism.
Exhibition From Saladin to Scheherazade. The Orient in Comics.
Keeping its annual date with the international photography festival PhotoEspaña, Casa
Árabe exhibited in its Madrid headquarters
What’s happening now?, a collective exhibition in which works by some of the most
outstanding artists from the contemporary
Egyptian scene could be viewed. This exhibition, held in collaboration with the
Egyptian Ministry of Culture, brought us
closer to the most recent creation of a
country that has an important ‘quarry’ of
visual artists who are still little known in
Spain. The Egyptian artists represented in
this exhibition were: Amal Kenawi (1964),
George Fekkri (1963), Hassan Khan (1975),
Khaled Hafez (1963), Shadi Elnoshokaty
(1971), Mohamed Abla (1953), Wael Shawki
(1971), Randa Shaath (1963), Susan Hefuna
(1962), Hisham Nawar (1967) and Hazem
Taha Hussein (1961).
The last exhibition organized in Casa Árabe’s
headquarters in 2010 was Freedom and
Innovation. Contemporary Arab calligraphy,
which presented the work of five Arab contemporary artist-calligraphers, all of them
established artists in the sphere of calligraphy,
who enjoy considerable prestige because of
the beauty of their creations: Hassan
Massoudy, Munir al-Shaarani, Rima Farah,
Khahid al-Saai and Nja Mahdaoui. The exhibition was curated by José Miguel Puerta
Vílchez, lecturer in the Department of Art
History in the University of Granada.
Running parallel with the exhibition, and taking
advantage of the presence of the great master
Munir al-Shaarani on the occasion of the inauguration in December, Casa Árabe organized, in
collaboration with the School of Art 10 and the
Association of Designers of Madrid (DIMAD), a
calligraphy and graphic design workshop aimed
at pupils and professionals in this speciality.
The Madrid audience visits the exhibition What’s happening now?.
Exhibition Freedom and Innovation. Contemporary Arab calligraphy.
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singular programmes
60 SINGULAR PROGRAMMES
Iraq Week
In June, Casa Árabe dedicated a week to Iraq,
in order to communicate the diverse and complex situation of this beleaguered country
through lectures, music and film. The Iraq
week activities included a film season entitled
Tales from Iraq, with the presence of Iraqi
director Mohamed al-Daradji, and two concerts, by Naseer Shamma with Carlos Piñana,
and Aida Nadeem. This Iraqi artist presented
her unique musical universe, known as
“Arabtronics”, a mixture of electronic sounds
and Iraqi oriental tradition inspired by artists
like Nina Hagen or Transglobal Underground.
In addition, a round table was held on the
role and situation of Iraqi women, with the
film director, founder of the group Act
Together: Women’s Actions for Iraq and creator of the Baghdad Independent Film and
Television School, Maysoon Pachachi, and
with Sundus Abass, director of the
Development NGO, the Women’s Leadership
Institute of Baghdad. The programme further
included a keynote lecturer by Nada
Shabout, president and founder of the
Association for Modern and Contemporary
Advertisement for the Aida Nadeem concert in Iraq Week.
Art of the Arab World, Iran and Turkey
(AMCA), whose work as a researcher and
curator focuses on Arab and Islamic visual
culture, orientalism and the processes of
globalization.
Morisco culture in Tokyo
In collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes in
Tokyo, Casa Árabe co-organized an event to
commemorate the 4th Centenary of the
Expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain.
The programme began with a screening of
the film, made by Casa Árabe, Expelled 1609.
The tragedy of the Moriscos. Following the
showing, there was a round table with the
participation of the lecturers Tomoko Mimura
from the University of Seikei, who spoke on
Morisco literature; Kazuo Miyazaki, from the
University of Tsukuba, who gave a presentation on Morisco history; and the Director
General of Casa Árabe, Gema Martín
Muñoz, who gave a present-day reading of
this historical experience. The day ended
with the concert of Andalusian music Moorish
Ballads by the group Axivil Aljamía.
Activities about the expulsion of the Moriscos at the Instituto Cervantes, Tokyo.
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singular programmes
Palestine 181
some little known aspects of the current
Turkish reality: a presentation by the Turkish
choreographer Ayse Orhon, a concert by the
group BaBa ZuLa, a Turkish film season and a
lecture on The Cost to Europe of not admitting
Turkey.
On the occasion of the National Day of
Solidarity with the Palestinian People
(November 29th), Casa Árabe organized the
Palestine 181 programme, which included a
concert at the Figaro Theatre in Madrid by the
singer and lutenist Kamilya Jubran, in which
she performed her work Wanabni, a result of
her continuing collaboration with the musician
Werner Hasler (trumpet and synthesizers).
Madrid’s Arab legacy
at the Shanghai Expo
Poster of the BaBa ZuLa concert included in the activities for
Istanbul 2010. European Capital of Culture.
Istanbul 2010. European
Capital of Culture
Istanbul was the 2010 European Capital of
Culture and Casa Árabe designed a special
programme during the month of November
intended to bring Turkey closer and reveal the
multiple realities of a country that bestrides
two continents: Europe and Asia. The performing arts, music, film and analyses allowed
the Madrid public to explore in greater depth
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Madrid in the 21st century is a cosmopolitan city in which many cultural manifestations that until recently might have
appeared strangely foreign have now
become quite normal, including many connected to the Arab and Islamic world.
Although the Spanish capital seems to be
among the great European cities that have
taken longest to become globalized and
therefore to incorporate Arab and Islamic
elements into its landscape and collective
identity, it was in fact the first to do so,
since Madrid is the first European capital of
Arab origin and with an Arabic name.
However, this heritage has been almost
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completely forgotten, since no architectural
traces remain of the medina of Mayrit, a
defensive town on the Muslim-Christian
border, thus pushing its seven centuries of
Arab-Islamic past (Andalusian, Mudéjar and
Morisco) into the shadows and virtually
removing them from the memory of those
living in Madrid. To revisit this past and
position it in relation to the present, in 2010
Casa Árabe began a project to explore
Madrid’s relations with the Arabs, from its
foundation to the present day. This project
gave rise in 2010 to a video, in Spanish and
Chinese, that was launched at the Shanghai
Expo, and it continues in 2011 with the publication of an extensive collective book. The
video was presented at the Madrid City
Council Pavilion at the above-mentioned
Shanghai fair, in the context of some seminars organized by Casa Árabe in collaboration with the City Council. In addition to the
video, the show Arab/Spanish Desordances, a
physical dialogue between East and West,
between Spain and the Arab world, was
presented at the Tree in the Air, by the company Dani Pannullo Dancetheater Co. This
dance show was performed in the pavilion
over ten days.
In addition to the concert, Casa Árabe’s headquarters hosted a round table on Jerusalem.
Symbol and stumbling block.
Casa Árabe activity at the Shanghai Expo.
Concert by Kamilya Jubran among the activities of Palestine 181.
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casa árabe’s services
64 CASA ÁRABE’S SERVICES
Casa Árabe’s Media Library.
THE MEDIA LIBRARY
The first media library in Spain to specialize in
the audio-visual production of Arab and
Islamic countries, the Edward W. Said Media
Library in Casa Árabe allows the public to
access film, music, the arts, animation, photography, design and Arab language learning
methods. It has been conceived as an open
space for research, training and dissemination
through new technologies.
The library’s collection includes, as of 2010, a
total of 3,107 resources ranging from the traditional to the most avant-garde, where technology, visual arts and rhythm convey and communicate contemporary Arab realities. In 2010,
the
electronic
resources
portal
(http://minzar.casaarabe.es) was created to
provide access to the media library’s holdings.
For document consultation, restricted access
over the Internet is combined with full access
in the library hall, which has 26 computers,
with bilingual Spanish-Arabic keyboards.
Casa Árabe’s Media Library has been presented at international fora and institutions
such as the 32nd Annual Conference
MELCom International; at the 1st
International Symposium on Media
Libraries and Archives for the 21st Century,
held in the Laboral Centre for Art and
Industrial Creation of Gijón (Asturias) on May
28th and 29th, 2010; at the Instituto
Cervantes in Damascus (Syria), and during the
1ères Rencontres Crea Numerica sur la
création numérique dans l’espace méditerranéen et le continent africain, organized by
the Institut de la Francophonie Numérique
(IFN), l’Organisation internationale de la
Francophonie (OIF) and Le Centre Irisson,
which took place in Casablanca on November
25th and 27th, 2010.
Media Library web page.
Casa Árabe’s Bookshop.
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casa árabe’s services
Casa Árabe’s Documentation Centre.
THE DOCUMENTATION
CENTRE
The Documentation Centre (CdD) is a highly
specialized information unit whose task is to
analyze current documents related to Arab
and Islamic countries. The working languages are Spanish, Arabic, English and
French.
Regarding the collection, preference is given
to magazines, whose content is analyzed systematically. The print collection is complemented by collectively written monographs. In
addition, the CdD has various databases of
reference works and documentaries in DVD
format.
Following the norms of all documentation centres, the documentary collection may be consulted in the reading room. The computers
available in the CdD facilitate consultation of
the bibliographical catalogue, named DIWAN,
which contains the bibliographical references
in the CdD collection, as well as the Media
Library. The publication of this catalogue presented by Casa Árabe is the result of a pioneering experience, made in accordance with
international norms, that offers the possibility
of carrying out, for the first time in Spain,
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searches in the Arabic alphabet. In addition,
one may consult electronic resources through
a specialist platform, available from CdD’s
own web page. The databases to which the
centre subscribes are accessible locally or
through the Internet.
The CdD opened its doors on November 5th,
2010, with opening hours from 10:00 to
14:30 and in the evening from 16:00 to 20:00.
It has a room with six computers for consulting the catalogue and accessing the electronic resources and databases the CdD
subscribes to.
THE ARABIC LANGUAGE
CENTRE
Learning the language is one of the most
effective ways to get closer to the Arab world.
Casa Árabe wishes to contribute to the spread
of learning of the Arabic language, both in the
standard form and its dialectal variants, and
consequently to its mainstreaming as a taught
foreign language.
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
weekend). Summer courses (semi-intensive
and intensive) take place in July. The training
on offer lasts for four years, subdivided into
three levels each (i.e. one level per term). The
centre has five classrooms and a collection of
manuals, reference books and teaching
resources. The classes are taught by a team
of between 10 and 12 teachers.
Throughout 2010 (end of academic year 20092010 and beginning of 2010-2011) between
347 and 421 students per term have taken
courses in Arabic, with 115 in the summer
courses, which means an increase of 10 per
cent with respect to the previous year. Of
these, 90 per cent study modern standard
Arabic and the remainder Moroccan dialectal
Arabic.
Four students have taken advanced language
courses by attending summer courses at the
University of Amman and at the French Institute
of the Near East (IFPO) in Damascus, under the
auspices of agreements between Casa Árabe
and these institutions. Eleven Spanish students
living outside Madrid received funding to study
in the Centre during the month of June.
CASA ÁRABE’S BOOKSHOP
Casa Árabe’s bookshop, located at the
Madrid headquarters, offers a broad selection of books for study or leisure, novels,
poetry, travel literature, children’s literature, music and film, art, exhibition catalogues, as well as books in Arabic. In its
brief existence, it has become a landmark
in the city of Madrid for finding the works
and new publications written by Arab
authors or on Arab subjects, thus making
knowledge of the Arab and Islamic world
available to both the general public and
specialist readers. All titles not available in
the bookshop, whether Spanish or foreign,
may be ordered and there is the possibility
of buying them over the Internet, thus
breaking down the geographical barriers to
accessing this bibliography.
THE CAFETERIA
Casa Árabe has a cafeteria located on the
ground floor of the building.
Likewise, courses have been organized in
collaboration with the Diplomatic School for
members of the Spanish Parliament, as well
as an intensive course for diplomats and government officials posted to Arab countries.
Casa Árabe Cafeteria.
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68 PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
The European Union
and the Arab world
What do Arabs think of and expect
from Europe?
Casa Árabe produces different types of publication, some in series and others free-standing; some
are published in paper format and others in digital formats. To these may be added the series of
catalogues published on the occasion of exhibitions organized at the headquarters. Likewise it
takes part in the publication of other titles in collaboration with other institutions.
AWRAQ
Revista de Análisis y Pensamiento sobre
el Mundo Árabe e Islámico Contemporáneo
Gema Martín Muñoz and Jordi Vaquer (dir.) La Unión Europea y el mundo árabe. ¿Cómo ven y
qué esperan los árabes de Europa? Joint publication of Casa Árabe and CIDOB. € 12. English
version “The European Union and the Arab world. What do Arabs think of and expect from
Europe?”. And an Arabic version
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In 2009, Casa Árabe and the Spanish Agency for International Development Co-operation (AECID)
agreed to begin a new run of the magazine entitled Awraq: Revista de Análisis y Pensamiento sobre
el Mundo Árabe e Islámico Contemporáneo (Journal of analysis and ideas about the contemporary
Arab and Islamic world), directed by Gema Martín Muñoz and Carlos Alberdi Alonso.
On April 21st, the journal’s Editorial Board met for the first time. The board’s members are: María
Victoria Alberola Fioravanti (Félix María Pareja Islamic Library, AECID), Talal Asad (New York
University), Dolors Bramon Planas (Barcelona University), François Burgat (Director IFPO,
Damascus), Alfonso Carmona (Murcia University) Gonzalo Escribano Francés (UNED), John
Esposito (Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown
University), Joan Lacomba (Valencia University), Saba Mahmood (University of California,
Berkeley), Mona Makram-Ebeid (American University of Cairo), María Antonia Martínez Núñez
(Málaga University), Khadija Mohsen-Finan (IFRI, Paris), Hamurabi Noufouri (February Third
National University, Buenos Aires), José María Perceval (Autonomous University of Barcelona),
James Piscatori (Durham University), Magali Rheault (The Gallup Organization, Washington),
Caridad Ruiz de Almodóvar (Granada University), Waleed Saleh Alkhalifa (Autonomous University
of Madrid), Elias Sanbar (Unesco, Paris), Antoni Segura (Barcelona University), Oswaldo Serra
Truzzi (Federal University of São Carlos) and Mohamed Tozy (University of Aix-en-Provence).
Número 1. Nueva época
1.er semestre de 2010
Número 1. Nueva época
Sophie Bessis and Gema Martín Muñoz(coordinators) Mujer y familia en las sociedades árabes actuales. (Women and families in
current Arab societies) Joint publication of
Casa Árabe and Edicions Bellaterra. € 20.
Nazik Almalaika Astillas y ceniza. Estelles
i cendra.
(Splinters and ashes) Joint publication of
Casa Árabe and Editorial Alfalfa. Trilingual
edition in Castilian, Catalan and Arabic. € 12.
Victoria Aguilar, Luis Miguel Pérez Cañada and
Paula Santillán Grimm (editors). Arabele 2009.
Enseñanza y aprendizaje de la lengua
árabe. (Teaching and learning Arabic) Joint
publication of Casa Árabe and the Publications
Department of the University of Murcia. € 18.
1.er semestre de 2010
AWRAQ
AWRAQ
Revista de análisis y pensamiento
sobre el mundo árabe e
islámico contemporáneo
Revista de análisis y pensamiento
sobre el mundo árabe e
islámico contemporáneo
Nº 1, January 2010. Los divergentes caminos de la reforma en el islam. (The diverging paths of reform in Islam).
€ 15.
Gema Martín Muñoz and Ramón Grosfoquel
(editors) Islam: from phobia to understanding. Human Architecture, volume VIII number 2, November 2010. € 10.
Nº 2, December 2010. Los países del
Golfo, ¿una nueva vanguardia árabe?
(The Gulf states, a new Arab avant-garde?).
€ 15.
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publications
CATALOGUES
José Miguel Puerta Vílchez, (ed.) Libertad e
innovación. Caligrafía árabe contemporánea. (Freedom and innovation. Contemporary
Arab calligraphy) Joint publication of Casa
Árabe and Turner. € 28
Jerusalén a principios del siglo XX:
patrimonio y culturas. (Jerusalem at the
beginning of the 20th century: heritage
and culture) € 17.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS
What’s happening now?
Photography and video in Egypt. € 7.
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Boletín de Economía y Negocios de Casa
Árabe. (Casa Árabe’s Economy and Business
Newsletter) Issues 16 (January-February), 17
(March-April), 18 (May-June), 19 (July-August),
20 (September-October) and 21 (NovemberDecember). Hard copy, PDF and HTML editions.
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[Arabic edition of Casa Árabe’s Economy and
Business Newsletter] Issues 16 (JanuaryFebruary), 17 (March-April), 18 (May-June), 19
(July-August), 20 (September-October) and 21
(November-December). PDF and HTML editions.
De Saladino a Sherezade: Oriente en el
cómic.
(From Saladin to Scheherazade: The Orient in
Comics.) € 7.
CASA ÁRABE DOCUMENTS
Índice de coexistencia Gallup 2009: un
estudio global sobre las relaciones interreligiosas / Análisis sobre la integración de
la población musulmana en Francia,
Alemania y el Reino Unido. (Gallup 2009 coexistence index: a global study of inter-religious relations / Analysis of the integration of
the Muslim population in France, Germany
and the United Kingdom). Gallup, The Coexist
Foundation, Muslim West Facts Project. Casa
Árabe Documents Series, nº 5. Hard copy
and PDF editions.
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Informe sobre el conocimiento en los
países árabes 2009. Hacia una intercomunicación productiva para el conocimiento. Resumen ejecutivo. (Report on
knowledge in Arab countries 2009.
Towards productive inter-communication
for understanding. Executive Summary)
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Foundation/UNDP. Casa Árabe Documents
Series, nº 6. Hard copy and PDF editions.
Notas Socioeconómicas de Casa Árabe.
(Casa Árabe’s Socioeconomic Notes). Issue
8 (Economic diversification in Oman: business opportunities for Spanish companies,
March, 2010). Hard copy, PDF and HTML editions.
(Casa Árabe’s Socioeconomic Notes). Issue 9
(Islamic finance today. Overview and keys for growth,
June, 2010). Hard copy, PDF and HTML editions.
10 (Brazil and Arab countries. An economic
approach, September, 2010). Hard copy and
PDF editions.
11 (The impact of the economic crisis on the
employment situation of Moroccan immigrants
in Spain, December, 2010). Hard copy, PDF
and HTML editions.
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publications
PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS
Memoria de actividades 2009
(2009 Annual Report) Versions in
Spanish, Arabic and English. Hard
copy and PDF editions.
READING GUIDES
Europe’s world, a four-monthly journal available at www.europesworld.org. Casa Árabe
jointly publishes the section on The Arab
World.
Mil y un libros para asomarse al mundo
árabe. (A thousand and one books to delve
into the Arab World) 2010 Reading guide.
Hard copy and PDF editions.
Simsim. Libros infantiles y juveniles para
asomarse al mundo árabe 2010-2011.
(Simsim. Children and young people’s book
to approach the Arab World) Reading guide
with references in Castilian, Basque, Catalan
and Galician. Hard copy and PDF editions.
Atalaya Sociopolítica de Casa Árabe (Casa
Árabe’s Sociopolitical Watchtower). Issues 9
(January-February), 10 (April-May), 11
(June-July) and 12 (September-October).
HTML and PDF editions.
RECORDS OF MEMORY COLLECTION
AL-SAYYED MUHAMMAD HASAN AL-AMIN
NASR HAMID ABU ZAYD
AL-Sayyed Muhammad Hasan al-Amin,
Lebanese thinker and religious figure. The
publication is in the form of CD-book. € 12.
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Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, Egyptian thinker. The
publication is in the form of CD-book. € 12.
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press and communication
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Casa Árabe’s web page.
In 2010 the English and Arabic versions of our
web site were opened and two new portals
were created, that of the Media Library (mediateca.casaarabe.es) and that of the
Documentation Centre (cedoc.casaarabe.es),
to provide information and access to the
catalogues of both centres. Along with these,
Casa Árabe created a specific website for the
magazine Awraq (www.awraq.es), on the
occasion of the new run of the publication,
where the contents of each new issue and
articles from previous issues can be consulted
together with information about where and
how to obtain this specialist magazine.
www.casaarabe.es
Between January and December, our website (www.casaarabe.es) received 89,360
individual visitors (almost 250 different ones
each day) who visited the web page
144,590 times (an average of almost 400
visits a day) and viewed half a million pages
(451,111).
A tool to disseminate the resources and relevant documentation related to the Arab
countries and the Islamic World in Spain.
http://cedoc.casaarabe.es/
In addition to Spain, the main point of entry,
the Spanish web of Casa Árabe received
more than one daily visit from Argentina,
France, Morocco, Mexico, United States,
United Kingdom, Italy, Egypt, Colombia,
Germany, Venezuela, Chile, Belgium, Brazil,
Tunisia, Peru, Syria and Portugal, thus
strengthening Casa Árabe as a landmark
institution in its field.
The English website, since it was launched
on April 20th, has received a total of 4,308
visits per day from 3,522 visitors (around 14
new individuals have explored Casa Árabe
each day), with 13,447 different pages
viewed.
Media Library
A space specializing in audio-visual creation
and all those new trends connected to the
visual arts and contemporary digital culture
from Arab countries.
http://mediateca.casaarabe.es/
Documentation Centre
Muslims of the West
Information and analysis about the plurality of
Islam and the Muslims who live in Spain and
the western countries in general.
http://mdocc.casaarabe.es/
Economy and Business
Specialist centre with resources, information
and analysis on the economy of the Arab countries and business co-operation and investment
relations between these countries and Spain.
http://economia.casaarabe.es/
Once the web page in English was launched,
work was done to produce the Arabic web,
which has been available since the beginning
of 2011.
This year has also seen Casa Árabe join the
social networks Facebook and Twitter. In the
first, at the beginning of 2010, Casa Árabe had
more than 2,700 followers, who receive daily
information about the activities organized by
the institution. In fact, accesses through
Facebook already account for more than five
per cent of visitors to the web pages. The
Twitter account, at the end of the year, had
more than 400 followers.
Awraq
Revista de análisis y pensamiento sobre el
mundo árabe e islámico contemporáneo
(Journal of analysis and ideas about the contemporary Arab and Islamic world).
http://www.awraq.es/
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Casa
76 TEAM
Gema Martín Muñoz
Director general
MADRID
M’hani Belrhrib El Hamdouni
Educational Programmes Assistant
Sergio Vidueira Martínez
Manager
Raquel Mallouh Verdeal
Media Library Assistant
Cristina Pensado Banet
Executive Advisor
Khadija Douieb Díaz
Cultural Programmes Assistant
Isaías Barreñada Bajo
Coordinator of Educational Programmes
and Publications
Laura Chamizo González
Documentation Centre Assistant
Nuria Medina García
Coordinator of Cultural Programmes
Olivia Orozco de la Torre
Coordinator of the Socioeconomic
and Business Programme
Tamim El Dalati Huguet
Press Officer
Karim Hauser Askalani
American Arabia Programme
Jaime López Francisco
Media Library
Maribel Gálvez Casado
Personal Assistant Director General
and General Archive
Nadia Makki Hornedo
Secretary to the Director General’s Office
Irene González Blanco
Administrative Assistant
Almudena Rubio Gálvez
Administrative Assistant Management
Naglaa Abd El Monem
Administrative Assistant for the
Socioeconomic and Educational Programmes
Nuria Torres Santo Domingo
Documentation Centre
Rafael Marcos Gómez
Management Associate
Daniel Gil Flores
Associate Educational Programmes
and Publications
CÓRDOBA
Amira Kedier
Coordination and Institutional Relations
Rafael Santiago Reyes
Management and Human Resources
Ana Isabel González Santamaría
Associate Socioeconomic and Business
Programme
Rafael Ortega Rodrigo
Senior researcher
Elena González González
Associate Cultural Programmes
Elena Arigita Maza
Senior researcher
Paula Santillán Grimm
Associate Arabic Language Centre
Francisco Javier Rosón Lorente
Researcher
Irene Quintana Suárez
Seminars and Tribune (Logistics)
Rocío Vázquez Martí
Researcher
Ruth Pimentel Touya
Press Office Assistant
Mariló Sancho Velázquez
Seminars and Tribune (Logistics)
Yolanda Rodríguez Ramírez
Management Assistant
Rosario Carrasco Pérez
Administrative Assistant
www.casaarabe.es
ANNUAL REPORT
2010

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