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Casa Árabe is a consortium comprising:
Casa Árabe 2008
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Casa Árabe 2008
Index
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02.Index
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06
08
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26
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04.Letter from the President
06.Letter from the Director General
08.Governing Board in 2008
10.High Board of Trustees
12.Diplomatic Board
14.Advisory Board
16.Headquarters
18.Inauguration of Casa Árabe’s
22.Casa Árabe’s Tribune
26.Casa Árabe’s Bookstand,
books and words
32.Viewpoints
36.Voices
42.Exhibitions
48.Festival of Ramadan Nights
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56
58
60
64
68
72
76
80
84
86
94
52.Educational and academic
programmes
56.Arabic Language Centre
58.Sociopolitical Forum
60.Socioeconomic and Business
Programme
64.Arabia Americana
68.Publications
72.Casa Árabe’s International
Institute of Arab and Muslim
World Studies
76.Instrument of public
diplomacy
80.Press and communications
office
84.Dynamics of institutional
collaboration
86.List of activities
94.Casa Árabe’s team
Casa Árabe 2008
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Casa Árabe 2008
Letter from the President
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04.Letter from the President
Hispano-Arab relations have strengthened
substantially in the last five years, helped by
the creation and consolidation of Casa Árabe.
The Government’s foreign policy and international action have enabled traditional relations
with the Arab-Muslim world to be modernised
and relaunched. The relationship now has a
multidimensional focus that encompasses not
only traditional politico-diplomatic channels
but also social, economic, cultural, scientific
and technological relations. Public diplomacy
and popular action form part of the exchange
of knowledge and experiences to our mutual
benefit, enabling old clichés to be overcome.
As President of Casa Árabe I am particularly
pleased about the growing influence of the
institution within our country, in the Arab zone
to which it refers, and in Europe and Latin
America, making it a necessary and modernising tool of Spanish foreign policy. The
directorship of this public consortium and its
staff have rigorously revealed the potential of
Hispano-Arab relations, their deep roots, and
encouraged the interest and attraction between
Spain and Arab countries. This explains the
growing influence of Casa Árabe’s programme
of activities and the response it receives
within and beyond our frontiers.
From its headquarters in Madrid and from its
International Institute of Arab and Muslim
World Studies in Cordoba, Casa Árabe promote lines of research into political reforms
and socio-economic trends in Arab countries,
resulting in publications and activities produced by the socio-political observatory and the
socio-economic forum respectively. Social
conditions of Arab and Muslim women,
Muslims in the west, Islamisms in their context, and education and the dynamics of
socio-economic development are among the
research topics undertaken. The findings of
these investigations are passed on via various
means and public events to experts and all
those interested.
Casa Árabe plays a crucial role in communicating and handling relations with the Arab
world, and in promoting mutual knowledge
and intercultural diversity. The autonomous
communities of Andalusia and Madrid, and
the town halls of Madrid and Cordoba contributed decisively to increasing our bilateral
and multilateral relations, and developing
relations with third parties, especially with
Latin America, the Gulf states and the
European Union.
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PRESIDENT
President
Miguel Ángel Moratinos Cuyaubé
This year, Casa Árabe initiated a close relationship with universities and Spanish institutions in the Arab region on matters of research, publications and cultural and scientific
exchanges. Agreements were signed to develop a full programme of activities in various
Spanish regions and cities, aimed at reaching
a broad and varied range of people across the
country.
Casa Árabe’s activities programme helped
develop and promote Arabic language and
culture, and supported our Foreign Service in
these and other educational tasks. Its move to
a permanent Madrid headquarters, in the unique
Escuelas Aguirre building, contributed greatly
to the effectiveness of its activity and aims.
Madrid City Hall provided and renovated the
building for Casa Árabe. Having a permanent
base undoubtedly enabled us to strengthen
its visibility, and signal the importance that
Spain and its institutions give to relations with
the Arab and Islamic world.
Activities in 2008 produced very satisfactory
results and demonstrated the effectiveness of
this public consortium. This Annual Report
provides information about all of them: they
are the fruit of inter-institutional cooperation
and a legacy for Spanish society.
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Casa Árabe 2008
Letter from the Director General
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06.Letter from the Director
General
The year 2008 continued to demonstrate the
importance of the Arab and Islamic region in
international relations, and its central place
in Spain’s foreign policy. It confirmed the
relevance of an institution like Casa Árabe in
promoting knowledge, public diplomacy and
research about Arab and Islamic countries.
We focused on activities that included crosscultural communication between the Arab
world and the west, critical debate among
intellectuals and academics, knowledge of
the plurality of Arab and Islamic societies,
the dynamics of diplomatic and economic
interaction, and the dismantling of prejudices and stereotypes. These priorities encouraged mutual engagement, the development
of common interests and points of contact
between our respective societies.
Casa Árabe experienced a year of intense
activity in 2008, when it extended its programmes, increased its public spaces and
services, and consolidated itself as a project
reflecting the progressive importance of this
region of the world in the international order
and for global stability.
We moved into our permanent Madrid headquarters, a unique and beautiful historic building provided by the capital’s City Hall, in
March 2008. The move enabled us to carry
out activities planned in the founding project
but which could not be developed earlier
because of the lack of necessary space.
Thus, Casa Árabe was able to launch its
exhibition programme, devoted to showing
the most avant-garde expressions of con06
DIRECTOR GENERAL
Director General
Gema Martín Muñoz
temporary Arab artists; organise an ongoing
film programme; establish the Arabic
Language Centre, where more than 300 students currently learn literary Arabic and
Moroccan dialect; take the first steps
towards building a Media Library and
Documentation Centre that will open to the
public next year.
In this process of extending its programmes,
Casa Árabe launched Arabia Americana, an
interdisciplinary project aimed at publicising
Arab influence and contribution to Latin
American national identities. The project
seeks to promote Spain’s role as a bridge
between Latin America and the Arab world in
all aspects: historical, political, economic and
cultural. It therefore developed its field of
activity in Spain, in Arab countries and in
Latin America.
All this was accompanied by increased activity
in support of Spanish diplomacy via the organisation of Arab institutional visits covering
politics, economics and culture. This strengthened Spain’s role as an interlocutor with the
Arab world within a European and international framework.
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Casa Árabe 2008
Governing Board in 2008
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08.Governing Board in 2008
PRESIDENT
President
Miguel Ángel Moratinos Cuyaubé
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation
VICE PRESIDENTS MEMBERS
Vice Presidents
Members
Manuel Chaves González
President of the regional government of Andalusia
Soraya Rodríguez Ramos
Secretary of State and President of the
Spanish Agency of International Cooperation
for Development
Esperanza Aguirre Gil de Biedma
President of the regional government of Madrid
Alberto Ruiz Gallardón
Mayor of Madrid
Rosa Aguilar Rivero
Mayor of Cordoba
Ángel Lossada Torres-Quevedo
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Diego López Garrido
Secretary of State for the European Union
Alfonso Lucini Mateo
Director General of Foreign Policy
Fidel Sendagorta Gómez del Campillo
Director General of Foreign Policy for the
Mediterranean, Maghreb and Middle East
Antoni Nicolau Martí
Director of Cultural and Scientific Relations
Carmen Moreno Raymundo
Director of Cooperation with Africa, Asia and
Eastern Europe
Juan Díaz Muñoz
Chief Adviser of the Minister of Foreign Affairs
and Cooperation
Gaspar Zarrías Arévalo
Minister for the presidency of the regional
government of Andalusia
Santiago Fisas Ayxelá
Minister for Culture and Tourism 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
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Casa Árabe 2008
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Their Majesties the King and Queen preside
over the annual meeting of Casa Arabe´s
High Board of Trustees
Casa Árabe 2008
High Board of Trustees
10.High Board of Trustees
Under the Honorary Presidency of Their Majesties the King and Queen of Spain
Abengoa
Felipe Benjumea Llorente
Chairman
Acciona
José Manuel Entrecanales Domecq
Chairman
Agbar
Jorge Mercader Miró
Chairman
Altadis
José Francisco Mateu
Isturiz
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)
Gerardo Díaz Ferrán
Chairman
CEPSA
Santiago Bergareche
Busquet
Chairman
CEPYME (Spanish
Confederation
of Small and Medium Companies)
Jesús Bárcenas López
Chairman
CESCE
Juan Badosa
Chairman
Comisiones Obreras
(Workers Commissions)
Ignacio Fernández Toxo
Secretary General
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High Board of Chambers of
Commerce
Javier Gómez Navarro
Chairman
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
ACS Foundation
Antonio García Ferrer
Deputy Chairman
MINISTERIO
DE CULTURA
MINISTERIO
DE CULTURA
Joly Group
José Joly Martínez de Salazar
Chairman
Iberdrola
Ignacio Sánchez Galán
Chairman
OPEC Fund for International
Development
Suleiman J. Al-Herbish
Director General
ICEX (Spanish Institute
for Foreign Trade)
Silvia Iranzo Gutiérrez
Chairwoman
P4R, S.A.
Carmen Rodríguez Díaz
Chairwoman
IDB Group
Ahmed Mohamed Ali
Chairman
Promomadrid
Jesús Sainz Muñoz
Chairman
Cervantes Institute
Carmen Caffarel
Director
Ramón Vizcaíno Refrigeración
José Ramón Vizcaíno
Chairman
Ministry of Culture
César Antonio Molina
Sánchez
Minister of Culture
MINISTERIO
DE EDUCACIÓN,
POLÍTICA SOCIAL Y DEPORTE
MINISTERIO
DE INDUSTRIA, TURISMO
Y COMERCIO
MINISTERIO
DE EDUCACIÓN,
Group Godó
Javier Godó Muntañola
Chairman
Queen Sofía National
Museum and Art Centre
Manuel Borja-Villel
Director
League of Arab States
Amr Musa
Secretary General
Gas Natural
Salvador Gabarró Serra
Chairman
Grespania
Luis Hernández Sanchís
Chief Executive Officer
Vocento Group
Santiago de Ybarra
y Churruca
Honorary Chairman
MINISTERIO
Y COMERCIO
MINISTERIO
DE CULTURA
MINISTERIO
DE EDUCACIÓN,
Ministry of Education
and Science
Mercedes Cabrera
Calvo-Sotelo
Minister of Education
and Science
Repsol
Antonio Brufau Niubó
Chairman
SGAE (Spanish Society of Authors,
Composers and Publishers)
Eduardo Bautista
Chairman of the Board of Directors
SEEI, State Society for International
Exhibitions
Javier Conde de Saro
Chairman
Técnicas Reunidas
José Lladó Fernández-Urrutia
Chairman
Prisa Group
Ignacio Polanco
Chairman
Ministry of Industry,
Tourism and Trade
Miguel Sebastián Gascón
Minister of Industry, Tourism
and Trade
Unión General de Trabajadores
(General Union of Workers)
Cándido Méndez
Secretary General
Villar Mir Group
Juan Miguel Villar Mir
Chairman
Mondragón
José María Aldecoa
Chairman
Unicaja
Braulio Medel Cámara
Chairman
MINISTERIO
Y COMERCIO
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The Diplomatic Board of Casa Árabe together with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Miguel
Ángel Moratinos, the Mayor of Madrid, Alberto Ruiz Gallardón, and Casa Árabe’s Director
General, Gema Martín Muñoz
Casa Árabe 2008
Diplomatic Board
12.Diplomatic Board
n HRH Prince Saud Bin
n HE Eluzai Moga Yokwe
n HE Saad Al-Hamdani
Naif Bin Abdelaziz AlSaud
Ambassador of the
Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia
Ambassador of the
Republic of Sudan
Chargé d’Affaires of the
Republic of Iraq
n HE Sheikh Hilal Marhoon
n HE Abdulrab Ahmed
Awad
Republic of Yemen
n HE Omar Azziman
Ambassador of the
Kingdom of Morocco
n HE Zaid Al-Lozi
Ambassador of the
Hashemite Kingdom of
Jordan
n HE Mohammed
Haneche
Ambassador of the
Democratic Republic of
Algeria
n HE Adil Hamad
M. Al Ayyar
Ambassador of the
State of Kuwait
n HE Yasser Morad
Hossny
Ambassador of the Arab
Republic of Egypt
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Salim Al Mamary
Ambassador of the
Sultanate of Oman
n HE Sidi Mohamed Ould
Boubacar
Ambassador of the Islamic
Republic of Mauritania
n HE Mohammed Ridha
n HE Souhel Jinad
Arab Republic of Syria
n HE Alaedin Benrajb
Kechrid
Ambassador of the
Republic of Tunisia
Popular Office of the
Socialist People’s Libyan
Arab Jamahiriya
n HE Chucri Abboud
n HE Musa Amer Odeh
Ambassador of Lebanon
High Representative of
Palestine
n HE Hissa Abdulla
Ahmed Al Otaiba
Ambassador of the United
Arab Emirates
n HE Hassine Bouzid
Office Director of the
League of Arab States
n HE Hamad Bin Hamad
Al-Ibrahim Al-Attiya
Ambassador of the State of
Qatar
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Casa Árabe’s Advisory Board meets in the institution’s
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Advisory Board
14.Advisory Board
n Abderrahman Jah,
Cherif
Chairman of the
Foundation of Islamic
Culture
n Corriente Córdoba,
Federico
Professor of Arabic
Language.
Saragossa University
n Abu Zayd, Nasr
n de Vasconcelos, Álvaro
Ibn Rushd Chair of Islam
and Humanism, University
of Utrecht
Director of the European
Union Institute for Security
Studies (EUISS)
n Asad, Talal
n Dezcallar Mazarredo,
Anthropologist, New York
University
n Barrada, Muhammed
Moroccan writer
n Bayat, Asef
Academic Director of the
International Institute for the
Study of Islam in the Modern
World, Leiden University
n Carmona González,
Alfonso
Chairman of the Spanish
Society of Arab Studies
(SEEA)
n El Yazami, Driss
General Secretary of the
International Federation for
Human Rights (FIDH) and
Director of Génériques
n Elena, Alberto
Professor of Film Studies.
Carlos III University of
Madrid
n Embarek López, Malika
Translator
n Casinello Aubán, Emilio
n Enciso Bergé, Ramón
Ambassador of Spain.
Director General of the
Toledo International Centre
for Peace
Coordinator of the Spanish
Group of the Averroes
Committee
n Chaib, Mohammed
Member of the Parliament
of Catalonia and Chairman
of the Ibn Batuta
Sociocultural Association
n Cierco Jiménez de
Parga, Juan
Director General of
International Information,
Ministry of the Presidency
n Corm, George
Economist and sociologist.
Former Finance Minister of
Lebanon. Professor at
Saint Joseph University of
Beirut
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Jorge
Ambassador of Spain to
the United States
n Fabre, Thierry
Writer. Editor of the magazine “La Pensée du Midi”
and organiser of annual
“Rencontres d’Averroes”
(Averroes Meetings) in
Marseille
n Ferré de la Peña, José
María
Special Ambassador for
Relations with Muslim
Communities and
Organisations Abroad
n Finianos, Ghassan
Professor of Muslim Arab
Philosophy. Damascus
University
n Goytisolo, Juan
Writer
n Guirao, José María
Director of La Casa
Encendida
Arts Centre
n Hernández León, Juan
Miguel
Chairman of Madrid´s Fine
Arts Circle
n Nadal, Miquel
n Piscatori, James
n Segura i Mas, Antoni
Ex-Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs. Director of
Foundations and
International Relations area
of the Royal Automobile
Club of Catalonia (RACC)
Political Scientist, Centre
for Arab and Islamic
Studies, Australian National
University
Director of the Centre for
International and History
Studies, Barcelona University
n Kettani, Saad
n Noufouri, Hamurabi
Chairman of Wafa
Assurance. Member of the
Averroes Committee
Course Director of Arab,
American-Arab and Islamic
Studies of the Third
February University,
Argentina
President of the Association
of Moroccan Immigrant
Workers in Spain (ATIME)
n Ibrahim Ali, Haydar
Director of the Centre for
Sudanese Studies,
Khartoum
n Kodmani, Bassma
Political Scientist.
Executive Director of the
Arab Reform Initiative,
Paris
n Ortega, Andrés
n López de
Aguirrebengoa, Pedro
Ambassador of Spain
n Ortega Salinas,
n Martínez Montávez,
n Pacheco Paniagua,
Pedro
Emeritus Professor of Arab
and Islamic Studies,
Autonomous
University of Madrid
Juan Antonio
Professor of Arab Studies.
Seville University
n Moya, Diego
Western Mediterranean
Cultural Association,
MEDOCC
n Hala, Mustafa
Director of Political Studies
of the Al Ahram Centre of
Strategic and Political
Studies. Editor of the
magazine “Democracy”,
Egypt
Director of the Analysis and
Studies Department.
Prime Minister’s Office
Joaquín
Ambassador of Spain
n Páez López, Jerónimo
Director of El Legado
Andalusí Foundation
n Parejo Fernández,
Maria Angustias
Professor of Political
Sciences and
Administration.
Granada University
n Rahmouni, Kamal
n Romero Marcos,
Manuel
Curator of cultural exhibitions
n Ruiz de Almodóvar,
Caridad
Professor of the
Contemporary History of
Islam, Granada University
n Saaf, Abdallah
Sciences and Director of the
Centre of Studies and
Research in Social Sciences
(CERES). Mohamed V
University of Rabat
n Sahagún, Felipe
Member of the Editorial
Board of the daily “El
Mundo”. Professor of the
Faculty of Information
Sciences, Complutense
n Pérez Yruela, Manuel
n Sayigh, Yezid
Director of the Institute of
Advanced Social Studies of
Andalusia IESA-CSIC
Professor of Middle East
Studies, King’s College,
London
n Shiqaqi, Khalil
Director de Palestinian
Centre for Policy and
Survey Research (Palestine)
n Tatari, Riay
Secretary General of the
Islamic Commission of Spain
n Torres Aguilar, Manuel
Vice Rector and Director of
the UNESCO Chair for
Conflict Resolution at
Cordoba University
n Valcárcel, Darío
Editor of the magazine “Política Exterior” (Foreign Policy)
n Vallejo Triano, Antonio
Director of the Madinat Al
Zahra archaeological site
n Vallespín, Fernando
Science, Autonomous
n Vázquez Domínguez,
Enrique
Leader writer of the
Vocento group
n Viguera Molins, María
Jesús
Professor of Arab and Islamic
Studies, Complutense
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Escuelas Aguirre, Casa Árabe’s headquarters in Madrid
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16.Headquarters
Headquarters in Madrid
The Aguirre Schools arose from an initiative
by the philanthropist Lucas Aguirre, whose
legacy enabled the schools to be built in 1886.
This beautiful building in the neo-Mudéjar style
was designed by Emilio Rodríguez Ayuso, who
also co-designed the former bullring at Las
Ventas in Madrid. The schools were finished in
1884, and three years later the architect was
commissioned to create the garden and the
ornamental railings.
Alcalá, 62. 28009 Madrid
Tel: +34 91 563 30 66
Fax: +34 91 563 30 24
Casa Mudéjar in Cordoba
Casa Árabe 2008
Headquarters
Headquarters in Cordoba
Casa Mudéjar comprises five different houses
and four patios, linked together by galleries, a
passageway and staircases. The two-storey
residence is organised around four patios, one
of which contains a round fortified tower. The
building possibly dates from the 14th century,
although most of the present structure dates
from the 15th and 16th centuries. The building
is situated in the area south of the Medina in
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the historic centre of Cordoba, near the
Mosque-Cathedral, and within the area
declared a Heritage Site.
Temporary headquarters:
Martínez Rucker, 9. 14003 Córdoba
Tel: +34 957 498 413
Fax: +34 957 478 025
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Members of Casa Árabe Governing Board with Their Majesties the King and
Queen of Spain during the official inauguration of Casa Árabe’s headquarters in Madrid
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18.Inauguration of Casa Árabe’s
Madrid City Hall handed over the Escuelas
Aguirre building to Casa Árabe as its headquarters in Madrid in March 2008. This unique
neo-Mudéjar building was constructed at the
end of the 19th century by the architect Emilio
Rodríguez Ayuso, and Madrid’s city authorities completely renovated the interior to adapt
it to its new use.
The official handover by the Mayor of Madrid,
Alberto Ruiz Gallardón, who is also Vice
President of Casa Árabe, and the Minister of
Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Miguel Ángel
Moratinos, was celebrated on 25 March,
2008. Casa Árabe’s Director General, Gema
Martín Muñoz, and its Diplomatic Board were
also present.
The headquarters was officially inaugurated
by Their Majesties the King and Queen of
Spain on 7 July, 2008, in the presence of the
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation,
Miguel Ángel Moratinos, the President of the
regional government of Andalusia, Manuel
Chaves, the President of the regional government of Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre, the Mayor
of Cordoba, Rosa Aguilar Rivero, the Director
General of Casa Árabe, Gema Martín Muñoz,
and representatives of the Governing Board.
The proceedings opened with an extraordinary meeting of Casa Árabe’s High Board of
Trustees, whose members included the
Secretary General of the League of Arab
States, Amr Musa. After the meeting, Their
Majesties the King and Queen signed the
institution’s book of honour and unveiled a
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commemorative plaque at the building’s
main door to mark the inauguration. Then
they visited the photographic exhibition
“Spain and the Arab world: Images of a century of political relations”. The ceremony
concluded with a reception attended by Arab
ambassadors accredited in Spain, the
Advisory Board of Case Árabe, and invited
representatives of other institutions.
A party for collaborators and friends of Casa
Árabe was held in the evening in the gardens
of the new headquarters. Guests had the
opportunity to view the dance show “HispanoEgyptian Desordances” by the choreographer
Dani Pannullo.
His Majesty the King and the Minister of
Foreign Affairs and Cooperation converse
with Mohammed Sharaf, Chairman of Dubai
Port World
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Inauguration of Casa Árabe’s headquarters in Madrid
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Baïbars Bookshop. Specialises in all matters
relating to Islam, and the Arab and Islamic world.
Casa Árabe’s Media Library. A multimedia
centre that specialises in contemporary Arab
creativity and production.
Al-Maidan Auditorium and Film Theatre.
This dual-use space with a capacity for 153
people is used both as a conference hall and
to show films.
Casa Árabe’s Documentation Centre (CdD).
Has access to the main specialist international
databases in various disciplines related to
Islam and the Arab and Islamic world.
Arabic Language Centre. Where literary
Arabic (fusha) and Moroccan dialect (dariya)
are taught, with varying timetables according
to level. Children’s workshops and calligraphy
are offered in Casa Árabe’s classrooms, along
with educational and specialist seminars on
the Arab and Islamic world for professionals
with an interest in this part of the world.
Fairuz and Umm Kulzum Exhibition
Rooms. Two communicating spaces accommodate exhibitions and artistic installations.
Al-Hiwar Room. A multipurpose space for
debates, forums and small exhibitions.
Al-Hadiqa. Casa Árabe in Madrid has a spacious garden where open air musical and performing arts events are organised.
Café. Located in the basement.
From the top: Al-Maidan auditorium and film theatre, Fariuz and Umm Kulzum exhibition rooms, and Casa Árabe´s Café
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Spaces and Services
From the top: Casa Árabe´s media library; a classroom in the Arabic Language Centre; and Baïbars bookshop of
Casa Árabe
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The Syrian Minister Bouthaina Shaaban addresses a conference in the presence of the General
Secretary of the Presidency of the Government, Bernadino León, and the Director General of Casa
Árabe, Gema Martín Muñoz
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Casa Árabe’s Tribune
22.Casa Árabe’s Tribune
Casa Árabe’s Tribune is a forum for debate
and conferences designed to spread information and analysis, and promote different voices
in the Arab world. Participants in the Tribune
include important players in Arab countries
whose voices are not generally known in
Spain, and analysts and specialists in the contemporary Arab world. It is an interdisciplinary
forum where socio-political, economic and
cultural subjects are discussed. Casa Árabe’s
Tribune organised around 20 conferences and
round tables in 2008, many of which were
repeated in various cities in collaboration with
other bodies, including the Three Cultures
Foundation, Cordoba University, Granada
University, Extremadura University, University
of Jaén, IEmed and Cidob.
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INTERDISCIPLINARY FORUM
WHERE SOCIO-POLITICAL,
ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL
SUBJECTS ARE DISCUSSED
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Maher Sharif (Syria) and Nur Masalha (Palestine),
the journalists Firas Ahmad (USA) and Patrick
Cockburn (United Kingdom), the ministers
Bouthaina Shaaban (Syria) and Nouzha Skalli
(Morocco), and the anthropologist Eva Evers
Rosander (Sweden).
Participants in the Tribune on “Art and new technologies in
Morocco. State of the question.”
Participants in the Tribune included the journalist
and feminist Shahla Sherkat (Iran), the politician
Mustafa Barghouti (Palestine), the professors
Aoua Bocar Ly-Tall (Mauritania), Paola Gandolfi
(Italy), Khadija Mohsen-Finan (France), Mohamed
Tozy (Morocco), María Olga Samamé (Chile),
A round table was organised on the current
situation in Yemen as part of a programme
devoted to Yemen, with the Yemeni historians
Yusif Mohammed Abdullah and Husain
Abdullah al-Amri, the plastic artist Amna alNasiri, the writer Nabila al-Zubair and the political scientist François Burgat (IFPO).
Casa Árabe collaborated in various seminars,
including the International “Iridescence”
Conferences on Asian and Muslim Countries
(University of Extremadura, January 2008). It
organised international seminars, including one
on “The National Construction of Palestine, 60
years after the Nakba” with the IFPO
(Damascus, May 2008).
THE TRIBUNE PROVIDES A
PLATFORM FOR NEW PLAYERS
IN ARAB SOCIETIES
Round table “Politics, society and creation in Yemen
today”
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From left, from top: the Mauritanian university professor Aoua Bocar Ly-Tall; the Swedish anthropologist Eva Evers Rosander; the Palestinian politician
Mustafa Barghouti; the Moroccan artist Abdelmajid Jihad; the Iranian feminist Shahla Sherkat and the Moroccan university professor Mohamed Tozy
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26.Casa Árabe’s Bookstand,
books and words
READING IS A WAY TO APPROACH ARAB
REALITIES, AND ALL THE BETTER IF IT FORMS
PART OF A DIALOGUE
Hay Festival Alhambra-Granada and Cosmopoética Festival of
Cordoba
Casa Árabe aims to help spread awareness
about Arab authors whose work is translated
into Spanish, and about works on the Arab
world published in Spain. Casa Árabe’s
Bookstand presents and debates new publications on Arab and Islamic matters in collaboration with publishers, always in the presence of the authors.
Sixteen books, including essays and novels,
were presented in Madrid, Cordoba,
Barcelona, Seville, Malaga, Saragossa and
Bilbao in 2008. Writers who participated
included Huda Barakat (Lebanon), Paul Balta
(France), Raja Alem (Saudi Arabia), Nawal alSaadawi (Egypt), Adonis (Syria), Zeina
Abirached (Lebanon), Ramón Mayrata
(Spain), Patricia Almarcegui (Spain), the
anthropologists Isabel González Turmo
(Spain) and Sophie Caratini (France) and the
journalists Mikel Ayestaran (Spain), Nureddin
Miftah (Morocco) and Hisham Kassem
(Egypt).
Two books published by Casa Árabe
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Gimeno, Jesús Moreno, Fernando Marías,
Manuela Marín, Jordi Pedret, Enrique
Santiago, Rafael Escudero, Luz Gómez, Juan
Pimentel, Pedro Rojo, Felipe Sahagún,
Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla, Jesús Moreno
Sanz, Clara Janés, Xavier Medina, Miguel
Angel San José, Lourdes Ortiz and Javier
Morillas
A poetry and storytelling recital took place on
24 April, organised by various Arab authors
resident in Spain. They included: Abdul Hadi
Sadoun (Iraq) Ahmad Yamani (Egypt), Muhsin
al-Ramli (Iraq), Malak Mustafa Sahioni (Syria),
Lamiae El-Amrani (Morocco) and Khalid Kaki
(Iraq). They were accompanied by the musicians Wafir Sheikh Gibril (Sudan) and Salah
Sabbagh (Syria)
Casa Árabe organised a poetry reading in
homage to the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud
Darwish in Madrid on 6 October. Similar events
took place simultaneously in more than 30 cities
across the world. The following participants lent
their voices in Castillian, Arabic, Galician (Gallego)
and Catalan: Pedro Martínez Montávez, Teresa
del Olmo, Clara Janés, Sara Rosemberg, Miguel
Murado, Abdelkader Chaui, Abdul Hadi Sadoun,
Jesús Munárriz, María Luisa Prieto, Rosa
Martínez Lillo, Alfonso Armada, Ricardo Gómez,
Ana Rossetti, Ángel Petisme, Ángeles Ladrón de
Guevara, Marta Sanz and Jordi Dauder.
BOOK NIGHT BECOMES A
REGULAR EVENT AT CASA
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Dña.
Gemaduring
Martínthe
Muñoz
A
moment
homage to Mahmud Darwish
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Academics, writers, publishers, journalists
and Arabists participated in these presentations as commentators. They included José
María Ridao, Milagros Nuin, Rosa Martínez
Lillo, Mathias Enard, Anna Gil Bardají, Carmen
Ruíz Bravo, Luis Miguel Cañada, José Miguel
Puerta Vílchez, Miguel Hakim Simón, Antonio
Reyes, Fernando García Burillo, Juan Carlos
From left, from top: Nureddin Miftah and Pedro Rojo, Huda Barakat and Milagros Nuin, Hisham Kacem,
Jesús Moreno Sanz, Adonis and Ana Rosetti
HOMAGES TO DRISS
CHRAÏBI AND
MAHMOUD DARWISH
Driss Chraïbi
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Special events were dedicated to the Moroccan
writer Driss Chraïbi, who died in 2008. His work
was remembered and recited by the Moroccan
professors Kacem Basfao and Khalid Zekri, the
writer Abdelkader Chaui and the translator and
publisher Inmaculada Jiménez.
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Casa Árabe’s stall in the book fair at Seville
A Reader’s Guide “A thousand and one books
to introduce the Arab world” was compiled
and published, as an additional means of promoting books by Arab authors and about Arab
subjects. The guide lists references to recent
works on history, politics, literature and gastronomy. Published in book form, it is also
accessible in electronic format.
A reading guide for children was also published,
entitled “Simsim. Children’s books to introduce
the Arab world”, which was distributed in
libraries and bookshops.
CASA ÁRABE PROMOTES AND SUPPORTS
THE APPEARANCE OF ARAB AUTHORS IN
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS
Casa Árabe participated in the book fairs of
Madrid and Seville to raise the profile of
books by Arabic writers or on Arabic subjects.
The institution had its own stalls that offered a
wide range of recent titles, and it organised
debates and round tables. These activities
paved the way for Casa Árabe’s bookshop,
which specialises in Arab authors and Arabic
matters.
Madrid’s 2008 book fair had Latin America as
its main theme. To mark the occasion, Casa
Árabe organised the round table “From the
Bekaa to Maipú: Arab footprints in Latin
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pation of the novelists Yasser Abdel-Latif
Hussein (Egypt) and Huda Barakat
(Lebanon); the IDEM Festival (Cordoba,
March 2008) with the participation of
Abdallah Taia (Morocco); the Cosmopoética
Festival of poetry (Cordoba, April 2008) in
which Ibrahim Nasrallah (Palestine) and
Mohammed Bennis (Morocco) participated;
the Hay Festival Alhambra-Granada (May
2008), with the participation of the writers
Raja Alem (Saudi Arabia), Murid Barguti
(Palestine), Radwa Ashur and Ahdaf Soueif
(Egypt), Elias Khoury and Huda Barakat
(Lebanon), Najat El Hachmi (Spain) and the
historian Hamid Triki (Morocco); and the Hay
Festival Segovia (September 2008) with the
poetess Widad Benmusa (Morocco).
American literature.” Participants included the
writers Edith Chahin and Sergio Macías, the
Chilean professor María Olga Samamé and
Mikel Hakim Simón, secretary for cooperation
of the Ibero-American General Secretariat.
Casa Árabe continued to collaborate with
various literary festivals taking place in different Spanish and Latin American cities,
with the aim of encouraging and supporting
the appearance in such international festivals of important Arab authors. They included the Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias,
Colombia, in January 2008, with the partici-
Covers of reading guides “A thousand and one books
to introduce the Arab world”, and “Simsim. Children’s
books to introduce the Arab world.”
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ARAB THEMES AND WRITERS MAKE THEIR
APPEARANCE AT BOOK FAIRS
Round table: “From the Bekaa to Maipú, Arab footprints in
Latin American literature.”
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32.Viewpoints
A PROGRAMME OF CINEMA TO APPROACH
THE ARAB WORLD
The Viewpoints (Nadarat) film programme
consolidated itself throughout 2008 with Casa
Árabe’s definitive move to its Madrid headquarters. Its film theatre, equipped to project
films of various formats, further boosted programming of the Arab cinema seasons launched the previous year. Casa Árabe builds its
Viewpoints programme around seasons focused on specific themes, authors or countries.
This makes it possible not only to show films
unavailable in commercial cinemas, but also
to produce accompanying information material, and organise presentations and other
public events.
The new film theatre was inaugurated with the
season Panorama of contemporary Arab
documentary cinema II: Identity and re-examining history, which also launched Casa
Árabe as the official headquarters of the
Documenta Madrid Festival 08. The season
was curated by the Egyptian producer Basel
Ramsis. With the nine films shown in this sea-
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son, Casa Árabe continued to emphasise the
growing importance of the documentary
genre among contemporary Arab filmmakers.
It also provided a direct window on to the
social, political and cultural conditions of
those countries.
The second season of the year was Urban
cartographies: the city in contemporary
Arabic cinema, for which the university professor and specialist in cinema of the South
Alberto Elena chose six feature films considered indispensable in the history of Arabic
film: Viva l’Aldjerie, Heremakono, Crónica de
una desaparición (Chronicle of a disappearence), El caos (Chaos), Falafel and
WWW.What a wonderful world. These films
gave viewers an insight into daily life in cities
like Algiers, Beirut, Casablanca, Cairo,
Jerusalem, Nazareth and Nouadibu, and
revealed Arab filmmakers’ fresh approaches
to their own cities and the complex social
processes of urbanisation.
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Casa Árabe screened two full-length documentaries as part of the Madrid Jazz
Festival’s “Film and Music” section: Zad
Moultaka, by the Moroccan director Leila
Kilani, and Conocerse es el principio (Know
yourself first) about the experience of the
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, created by
the Palestinian intellectual Edward Said and
the musician and orchestra conductor Daniel
Barenboim, to stimulate dialogue between
Arabs and Israelis.
Two further seasons were included in the programme of Casa Árabe’s film theatre during
2008. The season First steps for Maghreb
cinema, devised in collaboration with the
Festival of African Cinema of Tarifa, presented works representing what is known as
“new Arab cinema”, which has arisen hand in
hand with various countries’ processes of
independence, and their demands for national identity.
Finally, the annual film programme concluded
with the season in Homage to Youssef
Chahine, one of the world’s best known Arab
filmmakers, whose death occurred in the
summer of 2008. The homage to this
Egyptian director was carried out in collaboration with the Granada Festival of Southern
Cinema.
CASA ÁRABE
SUPPORTS ARABIC
CINEMA IN
INTERNATIONAL
FESTIVALS
Collaboration continued with the Spanish
Filmoteca in 2008, in the form of “Casa Árabe
presents”, with the projection of recent films
such as the Lebanese Dunia, by Jocelyne
Saab, and the Algerian Bled Number One, by
Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche. Casa Árabe collaborated in the pre-screening and distribution
of titles such as Rif 1921, una historia olvidada (Rif 1921, a forgotten story), by Manuel
Horrillo, and El edificio Yacobián (The
Yacoubian building), by Marwan Hamed. The
aim was to support those productions that
had succeeded in being shown commercially
in our country.
Ongoing collaboration with cultural and educational bodies, and film festivals across
Spain that concentrate on so-called “marginal cinemas” was equally important.
Examples include the Southern Cinema
Festival (Granada), The Film in Motion section of the San Sebastian Festival, Festival
Amal 08: The International Festival of EuroArab Cinema (Santiago de Compostela), the
Malaga Film Festival, the Tarifa Festival of
African Cinema, the Al-Quds Association of
Malaga, the XI Women’s International Film
Show promoted by Odeonia and the
University of Saragossa.
Most of these seasons were also shown in
the cities of Cordoba and Granada, thanks to
the close collaboration established between
Casa Árabe’s Cordoba headquarters and the
Filmoteca of Andalusia.
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throughout the year to complement the film
seasons. Thus, we could learn more about
Arab cinematography at the hands of directors like Marwan Hamed, Namir Abdel
Messeeh, Nader Helal, Jocelyne Saab and
Kais al Zubaidi in 2008; and we heard from
experts and film historians like Alberto Elena,
Inmaculada Gordillo, Moisés Salama,
Fernando González and Basel Ramsis.
Casa Árabe prepared a film season Tales
from Iraq in October 2008, to accompany
the exhibition Baghdad: City of mirage.
The films included works of varying formats
- shorts, medium-length and full features –
and genres, including the first fiction films
produced since the US-led invasion of 2003.
Films about the last Iraq war abound, but all
the titles included in this show were produced in Iraq by Iraqi directors, a unifying
theme that gave the programme a totally
Iraqi perspective.
Still from the film Wechma by the director Hamid Bena
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A variety of presentations and round tables
took place with experts and filmmakers
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36.Voices
CASA ÁRABE’S VOICES (ASWAT) IS THE SEAL
THAT IDENTIFIES ALL THOSE ACTIVITIES
RELATED TO THE PROGRAMMING OF MUSIC
AND PERFORMING ARTS
The year began with Yemen today, an
event that included a round table and the
screening in the Princesa cinemas of the
first fiction feature produced in Yemen, A
new day in old Sanaa, by Badr Ben Hirsi. It
included a musical programme with a concert organised in the Amaya Theatre. The
lutenist Ahmed Fathi and the choir of Ali al
Akwa’a and the Munshidin revealed to the
public of Madrid the beauty of Yemen’s
traditional songs. Performances were preceded by a poetry reading by the poet
Ahmad al-Awadi of his work Seasons for
Saba’s sadnesses, and the projection of
slides of the illustrations of the book by the
artist Amna al-Nasiri.
Ali al Akwa and his Munshidin, and the poster that advertised the concert
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A concert by Rim Banna, a singer internationally recognised as one of the most
Street musicians directed by Abdenbi El Gadari and the gnawa
group Bambara
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Casa Árabe organised a concert by the
Algerian
composer
and
performer
Abderrahmane Abdelli in January 2008 at
the University of Cordoba. His programme
combined traditional music, using instruments such as the mandola, the bendir
and the darbuka, with elements of jazz.
charismatic voices on the current musical
scene in Palestine, took place in May at
the Fine Arts Theatre in Madrid, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the
Palestine Nakba. Rim Banna performed
songs from her best known albums The
mirrors of my soul and Seasons of violet.
With her astonishing voice, she succeeded
in breaking the language barrier to connect
intensely with the audience.
Casa Árabe joined in the numerous cultural
activities organised in the Expo of Saragossa,
with the concert “Sound of water: music of
Spain and Africa”. Enrique Morente and the
music of Jajouka masters from the hills south
of Tangiers achieved a flamenco-Arab fusion
of styles.
CASA ÁRABE ONCE AGAIN
JOINED IN THE CELEBRATIONS
OF EUROPEAN MUSIC DAY
TO COMMEMORATE THE 60TH
ANNIVERSARY OF THE PALESTINE
NAKBA, RIM BANNA GAVE A
CONCERT IN MADRID’S FINE
ARTS THEATRE
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The Algerian composer and performer Abderrahmane Abdelli
The Palestinian singer Rim Banna
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Casa Árabe joined once more in the celebrations of European Music Day which Madrid
City Hall has organised in recent years, on 21
June. As part of the municipal programme
took place in the Templete (bandstand) in the
Retiro park, a lively musical march was organised on this occasion by the maestro
Abdenbi El Gadari and the gnawa group
Bambara. Starting at the bandstand, the procession marched round the lake of the park to
finish with a little concert in the garden of our
headquarters nearby.
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ARAB MUSIC IN
THE CORDOBA
GUITAR FESTIVAL
CASA ÁRABE HELPED
PROMOTE PERFORMING
ARTS WITH THE
PERFORMANCE OF EL
LUGAR Y LA PALABRA
H-KAYNE,
REPRESENTATIVES
OF MOROCCAN
NEW WAVE
A concert organised by Casa Árabe
Casa Árabe invited members of H-Kayne to
participate in the Festival of Ramadan Nights
08; they also performed music representing
Moroccan new wave at a concert in Jerez de
la Frontera, in the XXII Ágora Juvenil organised by the regional authorities responsible for
young people. Casa Árabe organised a concert of the Lebanese lutenist Rabih AbouKhalil, who presented his latest work of fusion
with fado and traditional Portuguese music to
an audience in Madrid. The event took place
in the autumn, as part of the Madrid Jazz
Festival sponsored by the city’s municipal
authorities.
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Finally, Casa Árabe collaborated with the
Cervantes Institute to mount a performance
of the theatre piece El lugar y la palabra: conversación interferida (The place and the
word: interrupted conversation), the result of
research carried out in Beirut by the choreographer Fernando Renjifo. The show ran for
three days in the Sala Off-Limits and included the participation of the actors Ziad
Chakaroun and Alberto Núñez. The institution promoted the Hispano-Egyptian fusion
show “Desordances 3”
A member of the Moroccan group H-Kayne
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The Cordoba Guitar Festival, which is held
every July, included once again a concert
given by Casa Árabe. This year it featured the
Moroccan Majid Bekkas, master of fusion
between traditional gnawa rhythms and Arab
musical influences, jazz and the deepest
blues. The concert also formed part of the
EsCultural 08 programme in the Andalusian
village of Puente Genil.
The Moroccan master of fusion Majid Bekkas
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His Majesty the King and the Secretary General of the League of Arab
States, Amr Musa, view a photograph in the exhibition Spain and the
Arab world. Images of a century of political relations
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42.Exhibitions
CASA ÁRABE ORGANISED ITS FIRST EXHIBITION IN THE
HEADQUARTERS OF THE LEAGUE OF ARAB STATES IN
CAIRO ON SPAIN AND THE ARAB WORLD. IMAGES OF A
CENTURY OF POLITICAL RELATIONS
The first exhibition organised by Casa Árabe,
called “Spain and the Arab world. Images of a
century of political relations,” was organised
in February 2008. It was held in the headquarters of the League of Arab States in Cairo, and
was inaugurated by Their Majesties the King
and Queen during their official visit to Egypt.
The exhibition showed through photographs
the closeness of Hispano-Arab relations and
the most important moments in their history.
The exhibition’s aim was to introduce Casa
Árabe to Arab states as a whole.
The same show inaugurated the Madrid
headquarters of Casa Árabe on 7 July. Four
members of Casa Árabe’s Advisory Board
worked together for four months to select and
document 150 photographs from the archives
of Spain’s national news agency EFE. They
were the ambassador Pedro López
Aguirrebengoa, the arabist Pedro Martínez
Montávez, the historian Antoni Segura and
the journalist Enrique Vázquez. After it was
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presented in Madrid, the exhibition travelled
to the Andalusian regional parliament headquarters in Seville, where it was on show
throughout the month of October.
Exhibition Spain and the Arab world. Images of a
century of political relations in Casa Árabe’s
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The second exhibition organised in Casa
Árabe’s Madrid headquarters was City of
mirage. Baghdad from Wright to Venturi
mounted in collaboration with the College
of Architects of Catalonia, where it was first
shown. Her Royal Highness the Infanta
Doña Cristina was patroness of the exhibition. The architect Pedro Azara, curator of
the exhibition, spent two years of rigorous
research to assemble many architectural
projects developed by the the 20th century’s
most important architectural studios for the
city of Baghdad during the period of King
Faisal II (the 1950s) and Saddam Hussein
(the 1980s). Various models made especially for the exhibition by Spanish and Iraqi
architecture students were shown, together
with pictures of plans, perspectives, sketches and photographs of the buildings. An
inaugural conference accompanied the
exhibition, led by the Iraqi architect Ghada
Al Siliq, whose advice was indispensable
during the long process of research prior to
the exhibition. After it closed in Madrid, the
show travelled to the Murcia College of
Architects.
Installation by Hassan Echair for the exhibition
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A piece in the Badhra Series, by Younès Rahmoun, produced exclusively for the exhibition Collectif 212. Contemporary art in
Morocco
THE FIRST COLLECTIVE
EXHIBITION OF
CONTEMPORARY
ART FOCUSED ON
MOROCCO
Details of the exhibition Baghdad city of mirage. From Wright to Venturi
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Exhibitions
Casa Árabe highlighted panoramic or joint
shows of Arab artists to introduce the diversity of contemporary Arab viewpoints, subjects and artistic creativity to the Spanish
public, and to show the most avant-garde
expressions of today’s Arab artists.
Morocco featured as the chosen country in
the first collective exhibition of contemporary arte organised by Casa Árabe. Collectif
212. Contemporary art in Morocco, curated
by Jesús Castaño and organised in collaboration with the ArtSur Foundation, was
inaugurated in November. This artists’
collective represents the current panorama
of art in Morocco, and comprises the
Moroccans Amina Benbouchta, Safâa
Erruas, Jamila Lamrani, Hassan Echair and
Younès Rahmoun, the Franco-Gabonese
Myriam Mihindou and the Iraqi Imad
Mansour. The collective includes a wide
range of art forms: video, installation, painting, etc. Under the Collectif 212 umbrella,
members work jointly in their effort to make
their work known abroad, and to break the
international vision of a monolithic stereotype
of Arab artistic creativity, widely held in
western societies.
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Casa Árabe organised the photographic exhibition Palestine before 1948 in Santiago de
Compostela in collaboration with the
Araguaney Foundation in October 2008. The
Lebanese artist and director of Beirut’s Arab
Foundation of the Image (FAI), Akram Zaatari,
curated the show, whose 91 photographs
were selected from the FAI’s archives.
Independent Creators, which included a show
of Moroccan video art. Contributors to the
conference included the artist Ahmed Jaride,
director of “Zon’Art” magazine, Abdelmajid
Jihad, director of the Irisson centre and president of the International Festival of Visual Arts
and New Media, and Seddati Majid, director
of Festival of Visual Arts and New Media.
Casa Árabe’s headquarters hosted the closing conference of Madrid Temptation, the
International Salon of Collectives of
Casa Árabe collaborated with other institutions, and gave its support to the exhibition
Ibn Jaldún, between al-Andalus and Egypt
that The Legado Andalusí Foundation presented in the Palace of Emir Taz in Cairo in
February 2008. Similarly, Casa Árabe took
part in the XXX Pontevedra Biennial in July
2008 entitled Without Frontiers: HispanoMaghrebi artistic convergences.
Some exhibitions mounted during 2007 could
still be seen in various Spanish cities throughout 2008. They included the photographic
show Voices of Iraq, in the University of
Cordoba and the Museum of Jaén, and the
exhibition Play of representations. The
Egyptian experience, by the Syrian photographer Osama Esid, in the Maestra Room of
Jaén, in the School of Arabic Studies of
Granada, and in the Andalusian town of Tarifa.
Casa Árabe and the
White Night
Casa Árabe joined with several institutions, as
in the year before, to help make this event in
Madrid on 13 September an open and popular
cultural rendezvous for Madrileños. The event
coincided with the closing ceremony of the
exhibition Spain and the Arab world. Images of
a century of political relations, when the façade
and tower of Casa Árabe’s new headquarters
was spectacularly lit up on this special night,
revealing the institution to many people who
were till then unaware of its contribution to the
city’s cultural panorama. A total of 4,500 people visited the building, which threw open its
doors that night to the general public.
The façade of Casa Árabe lit up during the White Night
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48.Festival of Ramadan Nights
Following the success of the first Festival of
Ramadan Nights organised in 2007, Casa
Árabe organised a similar festival in Madrid’s
Lavapiés neighbourhood in 2008. In the same
spirit as the previous year, various activities
expressed the social and cultural aspects of
this Muslim celebration, whilst emphasising
the diversity of Muslim communities that live
in Madrid, which include Arabs, Senegalese
and Bangladeshis.
Tasting of typical Ramadan dishes
The festival’s programme, from 24 to 28
September, included the Dishes of Ramadan
event, which consisted of a conference given
by Salah Yamal and Rafael Ortega, folllowed
by a tasting of dishes typical of this festive
period in four geographical areas of the
Muslim world: the Maghreb, the Arab east,
Senegal and Bangladesh.
Audience at a concert of the Festival of
Ramadan Nights
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Festival of Ramadan Nights
A NEW EDITION OF
THE FESTIVAL OF
RAMADAN NIGHTS
IN LAVAPIÉS
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Image of the concert by Chaba Zahouania
Images of concerts by Noura and Oumar Pène
The festival was organised as last year in
collaboration with the Fabricantes de Ideas
Cultural Association, and supported by the
Spanish
Agency
for
International
Cooperation for Development (AECID) and
Madrid City Hall’s municipal commission
responsible for the city’s central district.
Numerous bodies and associations of the
Lavapiés area participated once again.
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To celebrate the musical aspect of this festival, there were concerts by the Senegalese
Oumar Pène, the Algerian Chaba
Zahouania, the Mauritanian Noura and the
Moroccans H-Kayne. Film enthusiasts enjoyed the restored version of the Moroccan
film Transes, by Ahmed Al Maanouni (1981),
which was shown in the Spanish Filmoteca.
For the younger audience, there were football tournaments, calligraphy workshops,
storytelling from around the world, puppets
and a hiphop workshop run by the
Moroccan DJ Key, member of H-Kayne
group. All these activities for children and
young people were organised in collaboration with various neighbourhood associations and bodies in Lavapiés.
Images of concerts by Noura and Oumar Pène
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52.Educational and academic
programmes
Casa Árabe launched a series of educational
activities in accordance with the institution’s
aims: to help improve Spaniards’ knowledge
about their Arab neighbours, contribute to
perceptions about these countries and peoples, and form a basis for establishing different kinds of relations among individuals and
societies. Casa Árabe has gradually introduced activities in various fields to further these
aims.
Joint activities were launched with representatives of the formal and-non formal educational system, among teachers, professors and
adult educators, through the Teachers
Support Centres, Schools for Volunteers and
for Youth Education, public libraries and
various youth and cultural associations
throughout Spain.
Various activities for children were organised
throughout 2008 in the headquarters of Casa
Árabe, including storytelling, calligraphy,
Mediterranean dances, animation and drawing.
The activities were organised as part of special courses in several schools in the Madrid
region and in Andalusia.
WE HELP INCREASE
SPANIARDS’ KNOWLEDGE
ABOUT THEIR ARAB
NEIGHBOURS BY
ESTABLISHING NEW KINDS
OF RELATIONS AMONG
INDIVIDUALS AND SOCIETIES
Calligraphy course in Casa Árabe
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The educational exhibition Maghreb, the Arab
west, comprising 60 photographs supported
by explanatory texts, travelled to many cultural and educational centres in towns across
Andalusia.
Casa Árabe collaborated in the programme
Museum Without Frontiers. Discover Islamic
art in the Mediterranean, for which virtual teaching material was developed by secondary
school teachers. The project was presented in
Casa Árabe, and various workshops for teachers were organised jointly with the National
Archaeological Museum.
Casa Árabe is a member of the Spanish network of the Anna Lindh Euromediterranean
Exhibition Maghreb, the Arab west
Various activities directed at the general public,
including conferences and workshops, were
carried out in Casa Árabe’s Madrid headquarters. They aimed to help people familiarise
themselves with the broad diversity of conditions experienced in Arab countries, ranging
from their history and current political and social
situation to their artistic expressions. The introductory workshops in Arab calligraphy were
among the most popular activities offered.
Foundation for Dialogue between Cultures,
and participated in the regional project “A sea
of words”, a story competition for young writers in Europe and on the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean.
Several groups of children, young people and
adults from associations, schools, cultural
centres and adult education centres visited
the institution, keen to learn more about its
activities. Pupils of the IES La Isla (Burgos),
CEIP Cañada Real of Collado Villalba (Madrid),
CP Manuel Bartolomé Cossio (Madrid), IES
Las Lagunas (Rivas Vaciamadrid, Madrid) and
students on the University at Barcelona´s
Postgraduate Programme of Cultural
Management visited Casa Árabe in 2008.
Cooperation agreements were signed with
universities and higher education institutions,
which enabled them to participate in or set up
various educational activities. These included
the Master in Diplomacy and International
Relations (with the Diplomatic School), and
the Master in Contemporary Arab and Islamic
Studies at the Autonomous University of
Madrid. Other joint academic activities included a course on Poverty, unemployment and
emigration in Mediterranean Arab countries
established with UNED; a course on
Architecture and urban space at the
University of Cordoba with the participation of
the Iraqi architect Suad Ali Mehdi, and on
History and archaeology of Al-Andalus at the
Madinat al-Zahra Centre in Cordoba.
Casa Árabe has a programme of grants which,
subject to agreement with the relevant universities, enables students to engage in postgraduate practical experience in various departments
of the institution. Participating universities include
the Autonomous University of Madrid, Carlos III
University of Madrid, and the Complutense
University of Madrid.
Casa Árabe and the Spanish Society of Arab
Studies (SEEA) signed a collaboration agreement through which Casa Árabe endows,
from 2008, an annual SEEA prize for new
Arabist researchers. SEEA’s managing board
requested in its 2008 annual assembly that its
2009 annual meeting be held in Casa Árabe’s
headquarters in Madrid.
CASA ÁRABE ENDOWS
A SEEA (SPANISH SOCIETY
FOR ARAB STUDIES) PRIZE
FOR YOUNG RESEARCHERS
Workshop on the use of the virtual museum “Discover Islamic Art in the
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A reading event was organised in which five
authors read texts in Castillian, Euskera
(Basque), Gallego (Galician), Catalan and
Arabic, in December 2008. The event formed
part of the Trovalenguas project, which promotes poetry for children in different languages.
Recital of children’s poetry “Trovalenguas”
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56.Arabic Language Centre
LEARNING THE LANGUAGE IS ONE OF THE MOST EFFECTIVE
WAYS OF GETTING CLOSE TO THE ARAB WORLD
The level of knowledge of the Arabic language is inadequate in Spain, despite it being the
only European country that borders an Arab
country. Casa Árabe proposes to contribute
to the teaching of Modern Standard Arabic,
and its various dialects, so that it becomes
just another foreign language to be studied.
The Language Centre began its activity in the
headquarters in Madrid in 2008. Semi-intensive
and intensive summer courses began in May:
regular courses of Modern Standard Arabic,
and the Moroccan Arabic dialect started in
October, in morning, evening and weekend
sessions. The Centre has five classrooms and a
teachers’ room with teaching aids and reference works. Classes are taught by a group of 10
Arab teachers. More than 300 students took
Arabic language courses in 2008.
The first steps were taken to teach Arabic to
professionals with specific needs, such as
social workers, diplomats and volunteers.
Casa Árabe also supported teaching efforts in
Arabic for primary school teachers.
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58.Sociopolitical Forum
The Sociopolitical Forum is a resource that
Casa Árabe provides to help understand
the social and political dynamics of today’s
Arab and Islamic world. It has two essential
tools designed to deepen knowledge about
the diverse conditions in Arab societies: the
analytical magazine Atalaya Sociopolítica
de Casa Árabe (Casa Árabe´s Sociopolitical
Watchtower), and the Records of Memory
project.
Atalaya Sociopolítica de Casa Árabe is an
electronic bimonthly magazine in PDF and
HTML format. It analyses the socio-political
dynamics of the Arab and Islamic world, and
international relations; tracks public opinion in
Arab and Islamic countries by studying surveys; and presents profiles of prominent political personalities related to the subjects
analysed. It thus puts extensive documentation at the disposal of the reader, making it
possible to investigate current socio-political
processes in more detail. Each Atalaya contains a section devoted to presenting new
publications related to the socio-politics of
the Arab and Islamic world.
began in 2007 with three interviews: with the
Lebanese thinker, Shia politician and religious
scholar al-Sayyed Muhammad Hassan alAmin, the Moroccan politician and religious
writer Saad al-Din al-Uthmani, and with the
Egyptian thinker Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd. In
2008 we added the historian Maher al-Sharif,
and the anthropologist of British nationality
and Saudi origin Talal Asad. This second
interview had a special format, since it was
conducted by his disciple Charles Hirschkind,
professor of Anthropology at the University of
Berkeley (US).
Casa Árabe’s Sociopolitical Forum organised
various conferences and debates, including
Women, feminist movements and feminisms in
Iran by Shahla Sherkat; Maghrebi uncertainties
by Khadija Mohsen-Finan; Islam and the
media in the United States by Firas Ahmad;
The current situation and political future of Iraq
by Patrick Cockburn; The evolution of the concept of Jihad in Islamic thought by Maher alSharif; and Suicide Terrorism by Talal Asad.
Talal Asad, during the recording of Records
of Memory
The first number of the magazine was edited
by the research team of Casa Árabe’s
International Institute of Arab and Muslim
World Studies, and appeared in May 2008.
Three numbers were published this year, the
first of which received more than 4,000 visitors, analysed ideological revisions of radical
Egyptian Islamism, the democratic process in
Kuwait, the discourse of Morocco’s Party of
Justice and Development, and the dialogue
between Libyan authorities and the Islamist
opposition, among other questions. They
presented profiles of personalities including
the first president-elect of Mauritania, Sidi
Muhammad Ould Sheikh Abdallahi, the ideologue of al-Jihad and of al-Qaida, Sayyed
Imam Abdelqader Abdelaziz al-Sharif, the
reformist Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah alAhmad al-Yaber al-Mubarak al-Sabah, and
the Sudanese President Omar Hassan alBashir.
Maher al-Sharif during his interview for Records
of Memory
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Sociopolitical Forum
The Records of Memory project arose from
the need to rescue individual experiences of
great Arab personalities who are closely involved with the future of their country. The recollections of people who have an extensive life
experience and a long career can reconstruct
not only their individual journeys but the contemporary history of Arab and Islamic countries. It is an exercise in oral history in which
invited guests reflect on their past, their childhood and education, and on their contribution
to the history of their country, and it provides
a useful record for the general public, both
specialist and non-specialist. The project
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60.Socioeconomic and
Business Programme
Casa Árabe’s Socioeconomic and Business
Programme has a dual mission: to encourage
and accompany economic and business relations between Spain and Arab countries on all
their dimensions – trade, investment and cooperation – and analyse the multiple aspects
and dynamics that make up the socioeconomic situation in Arab countries, their evolution
and prospects. It aims to contribute to a better knowledge of our respective societies, institutions and economies, help and promote
cooperation and development, and enrich
public debate about the countries’ economic
social and political future.
The programme’s dual mission is reflected in
its two principal points of action: the
Socioeconomic Observatory of the Arab
world, and the Business Forum.
The Business Forum seeks to be a meeting
point for the different players who converge in
Hispano-Arab economic relations, through its
activities and meetings of various kinds organised in collaboration with both Arab and
Spanish institutions and organisations. It aims
to help Arab institutions in Spain learn more
about Spanish conditions, and support the
promotion of markets and sectors of mutual
interest. The Forum provides information
about business opportunities and commercial
matters, and crucial financial and juridical
advice for developing these relations. It provides information and contacts for both Arabs
and Spaniards.
The Socioeconomic Observatory of the Arab
world is devoted to tracking and analysing
socioeconomic conditions in Arab countries
in their multiple dimensions. It pays special
attention to the economic benefits of petroleum, the evolution and development of
Arab capital, sovereign wealth funds and
Islamic financing, and how they may be harnessed to promote economic development,
diversification and inter-Arab cooperation.
The Observatory’s lines of research include
the analysis of sectorial policies relating to
energy, industry and agriculture; and trade,
labour and education polices. It monitors
matters relating to the socioeconomic and
human development of these countries,
such as employment, the young, and internal and external migrations. It also examines
aspects crucial for the future of this development, such as the economic effects of
conflicts, natural resources, water and the
environment.
THE BUSINESS FORUM IS A
MEETING POINT FOR VARIOUS
PLAYERS ENGAGED IN
HISPANO-ARAB ECONOMIC
RELATIONS
The Observatory organises and coordinates
publications and meetings, including seminars and courses with specialists, and
Spanish and Arab research centres.
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CASA ÁRABE’S ECONOMIC
AND BUSINESS BULLETIN HAS
BEEN PUBLISHED IN ARABIC
SINCE AUTUMN 2008
The Boletín de Economía y Negocios de Casa
Árabe is a bimonthly publication of current
affairs and analysis on economic and business
relations between Spain and Arab countries,
and about the evolution of Arab economies
and their socioeconomic situation. It includes
news about business and investment, analysis
of commercial relations and information about
the principal activities of economic cooperation
between Spain and the Arab world. It aims to
favour improved mutual knowledge and encourage commercial exchanges with the region,
which have notably increased in volume in
recent years.
A thousand paper copies are published, and the
Bulletin is also distributed by email via a special
sending mechanism, so that it reaches more than
4,000 contacts who have previously signed up.
Various meetings with entrepreneurs were organised jointly with chambers of commerce in
Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia throughout
2008. They aimed to present a book about relations with third parties – triangulation - published by Casa Árabe: Spanish enterprise in Arab
countries. Conferences were presented on
Business opportunities in Jordan. A round table
was organised on Intellectual property as part
of the Hispano-Moroccan Forum of Jurists,
attended by law firms and representatives of
authors rights in both countries. Those present
included Abdellah Ouadrhiri, Director General
of the Moroccan Office of Authors Rights, and
Francisco Aguilera, International Relations
Director of the General Society of Authors and
Publishers (SGAE). This cooperation was sustained by the development of a working group
on intellectual property for future meetings of
the Hispano-Moroccan Forum of Jurists.
Casa Árabe, represented by the Business
Forum, attended various trade fairs and conferences on sectors and markets relating to
the Arab world, including Exporta, Fitur and
the World Petroleum Congress.
Education and debate on
socioeconomic subjects
Various courses were mounted in collaboration with academic and international institutions. A three-day course on Poverty,
employment and migration in Mediterranean
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Arab countries took place in May as part of
the activity of the Socioeconomic
Observatory in collaboration with UNED.
Courses for diplomats were organised
jointly with the Diplomatic School and the
Centre of Economic and Commercial
Studies (CECO), and courses for master’s
and postgraduate degrees with the
International University of Andalusia, the
Three Cultures Foundation, the Autonomous
University of Madrid and the Business
Institute (Instituto de Empresa).
The Socioeconomic Observatory concluded
a series of conferences on Economic and
ecological effects of conflicts in the Arab
world, organised jointly with Casa Árabe’s
Tribune between November 2007 and
February 2008. The six themed sessions
were repeated in Madrid, Barcelona, Santa
Cruz de Tenerife and Gijón. Seven specialists in economics and the environment in
the Arab world participated in a total of 13
conferences, and analysed how conflicts
influence the region’s capacity for development.
The Observatory participated in various working and research groups of a similar nature,
such as those developed by the Royal Elcano
Institute on Mediterranean and energy matters.
Monographs and studies
on the economics of the
Arab World
Various studies were carried out and published
in 2008. The first, on business opportunities in
the Arab World, called Spanish enterprise in
Arab countries: experiences in investment and
triangulation by Jacinto Soler Matutes, included nine case studies of Spanish companies in
different Arab countries and sectors. The
second, Economic and ecological effects of
conflicts in the Arab world included not only
ample reference material but also the transcript of the lectures delivered by Arab experts
who took part in conferences on the same
subject organised by Casa Árabe between
November 2007 and February 2008. Three
new Notas del Foro Socioeconómico (Notes
of the Socioeconomic Forum) were published
to accompany the book: Water and conflict in
the Arab world (04/2008), Iraq: conditions of
life in a war economy (05/2008), and The environment, victim of conflicts: the cases of Iraq
and Lebanon (06/2008). Casa Árabe’s
Working Paper N°4 Employment, poverty and
migration: the case of Morocco, by Professor
Mohammed Khachani of the Mohamed V
University of Rabat, was published in
December.
CASA ÁRABE ANALYSES THE
ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL
CONSEQUENCES OF CONFLICTS
IN THE ARAB WORLD
Khalid M. Khalid addresses a conference in the
series Economic and ecological effects of conflicts in
the Arab world
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These two lines of activity come together in
the periodic publication of Boletín de
Economía y Negocios de Casa Árabe (Casa
Árabe’s Economic and Business Bulletin). The
Bulletin has been published in Arabic since
the autumn of 2008, consolidating itself as a
unique publication of its kind.
Habib Ayeb addresses a conference
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64.Arabia Americana
The Arab influence is a distinctive component
in the formation of Latin American identities, a
product of migration since the late 19th century. It has given rise to various social practices
and unique cultural expressions, and in
some countries created networks that push
for a closer relationship between Latin
American and Arab states. Studies of the
phenomenon are fragmentary and disperse,
making it difficult to evaluate their implications and potential. Casa Árabe proposes to
act as a facilitator in the work of recovering
and reflecting on this process.
Casa Árabe’s work in Spain has, moreover,
become a reference point for people in Latin
America anxious to keep up to date with conditions in the Arab world today, and the common language enables our activities to travel
freely to Spanish-speaking America. Hence,
Casa Árabe’s programmes, in the form of
publications, film seasons and forums for
debate, are easily exportable across the
Atlantic, giving our institution’s activities a
deeper Latin American dimension.
organised activities and joint work with the
IberoAmerican General Secretariat (SEGIB)
and with cultural centres in Spain of the
AECID, as part of its activity for 2008.
The conferences From the Bekaa to Maipú:
Arab influence in Latin American literature,
and Hybrid identities in Latin American literature were organised jointly with Casa de
América and SEGIB during Madrid’s Book
Fair
The film season Cinema, politics and society
in the Arab world took place in Santiago de
Chile and Lima (Peru), jointly organised with
the University of Chile, the National Cineteca
of Chile and the Spanish Cultural Centres in
both cities, in September 2008. Three round
tables on the themes of Identity, Refugees
and Women were attended by the Arab filmmakers Ula Tabari, Maher Abi Samra and
Khadija Al Salami, and a number of Chilean
and Peruvian panellists. The Egyptian producer Basel Ramsis gave a workshop in Chile on
Arab Documentary Cinema.
There is great interest in the Arab world to
learn about the history and development of
those Arabs who built a new life as Americans
nearly two centuries ago. They are curious
about the hybridism that occurred in Latin
American societies, an “alliance of civilisations” produced in the first half of the 20th
century.
The Arabia Americana programme therefore
defines itself as a mediator and bridge in relations between Latin America, the Arab world
and Spain, and seeks to open up areas permitting three-way encounters and exchanges
of ideas.
The Arabia Americana programme signed
agreements with Latin American institutions,
ARABIA AMERICANA,
A BRIDGE PROGRAMME
FOR RELATIONS
BETWEEN LATIN
AMERICA, THE ARAB
WORLD AND SPAIN
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN RIO DE
JANEIRO (BRAZIL) ON ARAB CONTRIBUTIONS
TO IBEROAMERICAN IDENTITIES
Casa Árabe organised an international conference on The Arab contribution to IberoAmerican identities, in which 15 specialists
from across Latin America participated in
November 2008. The event was organised
jointly with SEGIB and supported by the
Cervantes Institute in Rio de Janeiro, the
Brazilian Foreign Affairs Ministry (Itamaraty),
and the Library of South America - Arab countries (BibliASPA). Members of the public in Rio
de Janeiro, academics and university students, and the diplomatic community in Brazil
heard contributions by specialist speakers in
the conference over two and a half days,
which included a film season and a concert of
music by the Eblén Macari Trio of Mexico. The
conference, held in the Itamaraty Palace, pro-
duced a wide-ranging and updated analysis
of the Arab influence in Latin America, which
will be published in 2009.
In Spain, Arabia Americana organised the
Tribune Identity and cultures in Literature with
the Brazilian writer Milton Hatoum, in collaboration with the Hispano-Brazilian Cultural
Foundation in Madrid, and with the Atheneum
(Ateneo) in Malaga.
It signed an agreement with the Arab broadcasting network Al Jazeera to screen a series
of documentaries on Arabs in Latin America in
2009, and various cooperation agreements
with the University of Chile and the Third
February University in Argentina.
Dña. Gema
Muñoz
Casa
Árabe’sMartín
Director
General, Gema Martín Muñoz, with the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and
Humanities of the University of Chile, Jorge Hidalgo; concert of the Eblén Macari Trio in Rio de Janeiro;
and participants in the conference “The contribution of the Arabs to Ibero-American identities.”
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68.Publications
Casa Árabe continued to produce various publications throughout 2008. Some were series and
others one-offs; some were published in paper
form and others in digital formats, including a
series of catalogues produced to accompany
exhibitions organised in our headquarters.
A new publishing project, Casa Árabe’s
Library (Biblioteca de Casa Árabe) was
launched, with publication of the aforementioned book Spanish enterprise in Arab
countries: experiences of investment and
triangulation.
Catalogues
España y el mundo árabe: un
siglo de relaciones políticas
en imágenes (Spain and the
Arab world: Images of a century
of political relations)
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Exhibition catalogue
Print version. 244 pp.
ISBN: 978-84-691-0518-4
Collectif 212. Arte contemporáneo en Marruecos (Collectif
212. Contemporary art in
Morocco)
Exhibition catalogue
Print version 90 pp.
ISBN: 978-84-612-9197-7
Reading guides
Simsim: libros infantiles y juveniles para asomarse al mundo
árabe (Simsim: children´s and
young people´s books to approach the Arab World).
Reading guide
Print version and pdf. 32 pp.
Mil y un libros para asomarse
al mundo árabe. Guía de lectura 08 (A thousand and one
books to approach the Arab
world. Reading guide 08)
Estaciones para las tristezas
de Saba (Seasons for Saba´s
sadnesses)
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Ahmad Awadi (texts), Amna alNasiri (illustrations), José Miguel
Puerta Vílchez (translation).
La empresa española en los
países árabes: experiencias
de inversión y triangulación
(Spanish enterprise in Arab
countries: experiences of investment and triangulation)
Jacinto Soler Matutes. Biblioteca
de Casa Árabe collection.
Print version and pdf. 172 pp
ISBN: 978-84-612-8242-5
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Working Papers
Empleo, pobreza y migración:
el caso de Marruecos
(Employment, poverty and
migration: the case of Morocco)
Mohamed Khachani.
Casa Árabe Working Papers
series. Print version and pdf.
ISSN 1888-1300 (print) and
ISSN: 1988-4052 (pdf)
(The evolution of the concept of
jihad in Islamic thought)
Maher Al-Sharif.
Casa Árabe Texts Series
In pdf format. 18 pp.
La evolución del concepto
de yihad en el pensamiento
islámico (The evolution of the
concept of jihad in Islamic
thought)
Maher Al-Sharif.
In pdf format 24 pp.
Boire et manger en
Méditerranée
(Eating and drinking in the
Mediterranean)
Paul Balta.
Anatomía de la crisis política
en Palestina (Anatomy of the
political crisis in Palestine)
Ilan Halevi.
Creatividad, disidencia y
mujer (Creativity, Dissidence
and Women)
Nawal El Saadawi.
Creativity, Dissidence and
Women
Nawal El Saadawi.
Presencia árabe en la
literatura hispanoamericana:
el caso de Chile (Arab presence in Hispano-American literature: the Chilean case)
María Olga Samamé B.
Libertad de expresión,
blasfemia y confrontación
de civilizaciones (Freedom of
expression, blasphemy and confrontation of civilisations)
Talal Asad.
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Periodical publications
Boletín de Economía y
Negocios de Casa Árabe
(Casa Árabe´s Economic and
Business Bulletin) Numbers 5
(January-February), 6 (MarchApril), 7 (May-June), 8 (AugustSeptember), 9 (OctoberNovember). Print, pdf and html.
ISSN: 1888-1408 (print/pdf) and
ISSN: 1988-3943 (html)
Atalaya Sociopolítica de Casa
Árabe
(Casa Árabe´s Sociopolítical
Watchtower)
Numbers 1 (May), 2 (JulyAugust), 3 (September-October)
Version in html and pdf.
ISSN: 1989-0400
Notas del Foro Socioeconómico
de Casa Árabe (Casa Árabe´s
Notes of the Socioeconomic
Forum) Numbers 4. Agua y conflicto en el mundo árabe (Water and
conflict in the Arab world), 5. Iraq:
condiciones de vida en una economía de guerra (Iraq: conditions of
life in a war economy), 6. El medio
ambiente víctima de los conflictos:
los casos de Iraq y Líbano (The
environment, victim of conflicts:
the cases of Iraq and Lebanon).
Print version and pdf
Memoria de actividades 2007
(Annual Report 2007)
Alerta del Boletín de Economía
y Negocios de Casa Árabe
(Casa Árabe´s Economic and
Business Bulletin Alert)
Numbers 5 (April), 6 (July),
7 (October).
In html format
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Annual Report 2007
[Boletín de Economía y
Negocios de Casa Árabe in
Arabic]
Numbers 8 (September), 9
(October).
Version in html and pdf.
ISSN: 1988-3943
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72.Casa Árabe´s International
Institute for Arab and Muslim
World Studies
The International Institute for Arab and
Muslim World Studies (IEAM) forms part of
Casa Árabe as its research and study centre,
with various lines of work established since its
launch in 2007.
Based in Cordoba, the Institute comprises a
multidisciplinary group of researchers specialised in different lines of Casa Árabe´s work,
who lead or participate in various research
networks in Europe and Arab countries.
Cooperation is established via agreements
with universities and research centres of
excellence, both in Spain and in Arab and
European countries, and through contacts
with academics of recognised international
prestige.
The lines of research complement Casa Árabe’s
other areas of work, enabling the effective
transmission of academic knowledge in areas
of culture, education, the Socioeconomic
Observatory and the Sociopolitical Forum.
Research projects, and their results, are expressed in publications, seminars, conferences and
postgraduate educational programmes organised either by Casa Árabe or in collaboration
with other institutions within and outside Spain.
THE IEAM HAS AGREEMENTS WITH
UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH
CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE BOTH IN
SPAIN AND IN ARAB AND
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
Lines of Research:
• Political reforms and socioeconomic trends in
Arab countries, the results of which are expressed in the publications and activities of the
Sociopolitical Forum and the Socioeconomic
Programme respectively
• Social conditions of Arab and Muslim women
• Muslims in the west
• Islamisms in context
• Education
• Socioeconomic dynamics
A conference organised by IEAM
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PROJECT UNDERTAKEN ON FAMILY,
DEMOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL CHANGE
IN ARAB COUNTRIES
The IEAM developed various research projects from these lines of work, some of which
will produce publications in the course of
2009.
A preliminary stage of research into social
conditions of Arab and Muslim women was
completed in 2008 with the elaboration of
this research project. It is the first of a
series of projects on this theme, product of
Casa Árabe´s interest in taking an academic
approach to this important subject in the
context of Arab societies, a subject that
generates intense debate on the role of
women in the Arab and Muslim world. This
first project is being carried out by a group
of researchers in Spain, Morocco, Algeria,
Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Palestine and Syria.
Results of the research will be published in
2009
The research project on Muslims in the west
seeks to consolidate a network of researchers who currently collaborate in various
research programmes, seminars and related
initiatives. This Casa Árabe initiative has a
scientific-academic dimension designed to
help generate a more accurate perception of
the plurality of Islam in Spain, and throughout
the west. An initial result of this work will be
the compilation of a book, Muslims in Spain.
A Reference Guide, to appear in Spanish
and English in 2009. The book is the result
of Casa Árabe´s collaboration with the Office
for Democratic Institutions and Human
Rights (ODIHR) of the Organisation for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
The Islamic Movements in Europe project,
coordinated by Frank Peter and Rafael
Ortega, forms part of this research, and that
on Islamisms in context. Casa Árabe organised in May 2008 an international seminar of
researchers in different European countries
who carried out extensive fieldwork in Islamic
and/or European countries. The project aims
to publish a Manual on Islamic movements,
groups, associations and institutions in
Europe, to make academic knowledge on
Islamism and Islamic movements more
accessible to the general public. It will popularise highly specialised knowledge, and contextualise and participate in public debate
about Islam in Europe.
non of radicalisation in Islamist movements
in Europe.
Casa Árabe introduced in Spain the
International Campaign against forced marriages, promoted by the Platform of Islamic
organisations of Rijnmond (SPIOR), in the presence of Tareq Ramadan and Marianne
Vorthoren.
Members meet several times a year to
exchange work experiences, and seek ways of
strengthening scientific cooperation between
countries and their academic institutions.
Casa Árabe´s IEAM collaborates in the field of
higher education through agreements with
other institutions. Casa Árabe´s researchers
participate as a result in various postgraduate
and specialist courses.
This educational project seeks to prevent this
kind of marriages and is accompanied by a
very useful publication for those working in
the field of social mediation.
Casa Árabe´s IEAM has been working jointly
since July 2008 with the University of Utrecht,
the ZMO (Berlin) and the Viadrina European
University (Frankfurt-Oder) on a project that is
70 per cent financed by the Organisation for
Scientific Research of the Netherlands (NWO).
The project aims to create a network of researchers and academics across Europe whose
study of the question of Islam in Europe is
called: Muslim traditions in secular Europe.
Tareq Ramadan at the presentation of the International Campaign against forced marriages
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Casa Árabe´s International Institute for Arab and Muslim World Studies
Casa Árabe-IEAM organised a related
Tribune on Itineraries of radicalisation: key
aspects of radical Islamism in Europe, to
provide analysis of the question by Gema
Martín Muñoz, Werner Schiffauer, Jonathan
Birt and Sol Tarrés. These researchers in the
field of Islamist movements take an empirical approach to their subject, and their
reflections help contextualise the phenome-
THE INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN
AGAINST FORCED MARRIAGES,
PROMOTED BY THE PLATFORM
OF ISLAMIC ORGANISATIONS OF
RIJNMOND (SPIOR)
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Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan visited
Casa Árabe to learn of its activities and programmes first-hand and explore channels of
cooperation. Her Majesty had a meeting with
Casa Árabe´s Director General and with the
Director General of Foreign Policy for the
Mediterranean, Maghreb and Middle East,
Fidel Sendagorta. She then toured the headquarters and visited the exhibition City of
mirage: Baghdad from Wright to Venturi.
The President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Sidi Mohamed Ould Sheikh
Abdellahi, Spain´s Ambassador to Mauritania, Alejandro Polanco, and the Director
General of Casa Árabe, Gema Martín Muñoz
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76.Instrument of public
diplomacy
Casa Árabe received visiting dignitaries and
important personalities in the Arab world,
acting as an instrument of public diplomacy
that contributes to Spain´s foreign policy in
Arab countries. The Director General carried
out several visits abroad and participated in
various international forums. When the
President of the Islamic Republic of
Mauritania, Sidi Mohamed Ould Sheikh
Abdellahi, made an official visit to Spain, Casa
Árabe organised a series of meetings in
Cordoba and Seville with local and regional
authorities. They included the President of the
Andalusian regional government and Vice
President of Casa Árabe, Manuel Chaves, and
the Mayor of Cordoba and Vice President of
Casa Árabe, Rosa Aguilar.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN VISITS CASA ÁRABE
TO LEARN FIRST-HAND ABOUT ITS PROGRAMMES,
AND EXPLORE CHANNELS OF COOPERATION
Queen Rania of Jordan converses with Casa Árabe’s Director
General, Gema Martín Muñoz
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The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation,
Miguel Ángel Moratinos, received the Secretary
General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Abdel
Rahman Hamada al Attiyah, in Casa Árabe´s
headquarters in the presence of the Director
General, Gema Martín Muñoz. A collaboration
agreement between the two institutions was
signed at the meeting.
Other visiting delegations included: a
group of Egyptian professionals - journa-
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Members of the parliamentary delegation of the National Federal Council of State of
the United Arab Emirates
CASA ÁRABE HOSTS THE DAYS
OF THE GULF COOPERATION
COUNCIL IN EUROPE
lists, university lecturers, politicians, doctors, judges and MPs, a parliamentary
delegation of the National Federal Council
of State of the United Arab Emirates led by
its president; and a group of Latin
American municipal administrators who
participated in the XXX Latin American
Programme of Municipal Education organised by Madrid City Hall in collaboration
with the Union of Latin American Capital
Cities.
The Director General of Casa Árabe made
various official visits to Mauritania, Saudi
Arabia, Qatar, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and
the United Arab Emirates, where collaboration agreements were signed, and contacts
established with political, cultural and academic institutions. She was invited to participate in the Eighth Forum on Democracy,
Development and Free Trade in Qatar. She
had contacts with the Qatar Foundation,
with a view to carrying out activities jointly
with the two institutions.
Casa Árabe´s Director General gave a series
of master classes at the Third February
University in Buenos Aires, and received an
honorary doctorate at the Argentine University
of Mendoza. Gema Martín Muñoz then travelled to Chile where she gave a conference on
Geopolitical analysis of the Middle East at the
Chilean Diplomatic Academy.
Isselkou Ould Ahmed Izid Bih, Rector of the University of
Nouakchott, Alejandro Polanco, Spain´s Ambassador to
Mauritania, and Gema Martín Muñoz, Casa Árabe´s
Director General, on an official visit to Mauritania
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The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Miguel Ángel Moratinos, the Director General of Foreign Policy
for the Mediterranean and the Maghreb and Middle East, Fidel Sendagorta, and the Director General of Casa
Árabe, Gema Martín Muñoz, during the Days of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Spain
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Instrument of public diplomacy
CONTACTS ESTABLISHED WITH POLITICAL, CULTURAL AND
ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS RESULTED IN THE SIGNING OF
VARIOUS COLLABORATION AGREEMENTS
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80.Press and communications
office
Casa Árabe´s press and communications
office made a sustained effort all year to
publicise the official headquarters handed
over by Madrid City Hall in March 2008. It
also promoted the institution´s activities for
the public, and for the Spanish and international press.
Projects of important social interest were presented in various press conferences at the
Madrid headquarters. They included the presentation of the International Campaign
against forced marriages; and of the stage
show A thousand nights and one night, attended by its author Mario Vargas Llosa and the
actress Aitana Sánchez Gijón.
Press conferences and interviews with specialists served to introduce journalists, and by
extension the public, to Casa Árabe´s headquarters, and to strengthen the institution’s
position as a key source of information among
media professionals about the Arab and
Muslim world.
A FUNDAMENTAL TASK
THROUGHOUT THE YEAR WAS
TO PUBLICISE THE NEW
HEADQUARTERS IN MADRID
Photo-journalists at Casa Árabe´s headquarters in Madrid
Press conference to present A thousand nights
and one night
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European countries (especially France and
the United Kingdom).
The Vice-Mayor of Cordoba, Rafael Blanco, and Casa Árabe´s Director General,
Gema Martín Muñoz, sign an agreement in the presence of the media
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Photographers and television reporters at Queen Rania of Jordan´s visit to Casa Árabe
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Press and communications office
The website consolidated some of its most
important content this year, such as the
Multimedia section, which recorded all the
Tribunes held in Madrid, and where a total of
30 activities held during 2008 can be seen in
their entirety. With this section, conferences
organised by Casa Árabe are accessible
within days of taking place, for all those unable to attend. The conferences are stored on
the website indefinitely, providing full specialist documentation on different matters relating to Arab and Islamic subjects and analysis. This is very useful for people throughout
the world who are interested in the subject.
CASA ÁRABE´S WEBSITE (WWW.CASAARABE.ES)
RECEIVED MORE THAN 110,000 HITS, INCLUDING
MORE 63,000 INDIVIDUAL HITS
The press and communications office posts
detailed information about all the activities
organised by Casa Árabe on the website, as
well as news about events in which it collaborates with other institutions.
A newsletter with all news of Casa Árabe,
Novedades de Casa Árabe is compiled
weekly to inform the public. It covers activities
scheduled for the following week, and updates texts and archives in audio and video
forms.
Its main services include:
• Audiovisual and text access to all conferences organised by the institution
• Downloading in digital form the studies and
reports published by Casa Árabe
• Online access to Boletín de Economía y
Negocios de Casa Árabe and Atalaya
Sociopolítica
• Information about events and meetings of
other institutions related to the Arab and
Islamic world.
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Casa Árabe´s website (www.casaarabe.es)
received more than 110,000 hits in 2008,
including 63,000 individual hits. This means
that around 200 people per day made contact
with Casa Árabe via its website.
Most visitors to the website were Spanish, but
many hits came from the Americas (mainly
Mexico, Argentina, United States, Venezuela,
Colombia and Chile), from Arab countries
(notably Morocco, Egypt, United Arab
Emirates and Algeria) and from other
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84.Dynamics of institutional
collaboration
Cooperation with other institutions is a key
objective designed to strengthen Casa Árabe’s
working network, in addition to developing its
own programmes and activities.
It signed agreements and developed programmes in Spain in collaboration with Euro
Arab Centre of Catalonia, Expo of Saragossa,
EFE press agency, Filmoteca of Madrid and
Andalusia, Madrid Book Fair, Cidob in
Barcelona, the Great Theatre of Cordoba, the
regional parliament of Andalusia, the University
of Cordoba, the Autonomous University of
Madrid, the Araguaney Foundation, the Medina
al-Zahra Centre, The Legado Andalusí, the
Ministry of Culture, the General Board of Judicial
Power, the Spanish Supreme Court, the
Diplomatic School, the Three Cultures
Foundation in Seville and the Club of
Madrid.
Internationally, Casa Árabe organised activities jointly with the UNDP’s Middle East programme, the World Economic Forum, the
European Observatory against Racism and
Xenophobia (today the European Fundamental
Rights Agency), the Office for Democratic
Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHROSCE), the International Institute for the Study
of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), the IberoAmerican General Secretariat, the Museum
Without Frontiers, the British Council, and the
French Institute of International Relations
(IFRI) in Paris. It also has agreements with the
Third February University in Argentina and
the University of Chile.
It has institutional cooperation agreements in
the Arab region with the King Faisal
Foundation in Riyadh, the Al-Maktum
Foundation and the Emirates Foundation of
the UAE, with the Qatar Foundation, the
Moroccan Supreme Court, Bir Zeit University
in Ramallah, the French Near East Institute
(IFPO) in Damascus, Al Jazeera (Qatar) and
the Arab Reform Initiative (ARI) in Beirut.
Casa Árabe organised in Spain one of the
Days of the Gulf Cooperation Council, in
collaboration with the Gulf Arab States’
General Secretariat for Cooperation, devoted
to “Dialogue between Spain and the States of
the Gulf Cooperation Council”. The Minister of
Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Miguel Ángel
Moratinos, the Secretary General of the Gulf
Cooperation Council, Abdel Rahman Hamada
al Attiyah, and the Director General of Casa
Árabe, Gema Martín Muñoz, presided over
the event.
OUR OBJECTIVE IS
COOPERATION WITH OTHER
INSTITUTIONS TO
STRENGTHEN JOINT WORK
Enrique Iglesias, Secretary General of SEGIB and Gema Martín Muñoz,
Director General de Casa Árabe, sign a collaboration agreement between the two institutions
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Mohamed Tozy, Khadija Mohsen-Finan and Paola Gandolfi: Morocco today: memory, identity
and reforms. Madrid.
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Werner Schiffauer, Jonathan Birt, Sol Tarrés and Gema Martín Muñoz: Itineraries of radicalisation: keys to radical Islamism in Europe. Madrid.
Tariq Ramadan, Marianne Vorthoren: Presentation of the European campaign Hand in hand
against forced marriages. Madrid.
Abdelmajid Jihad, Seddati Majid and Víctor del Campo: Art and new technologies in Morocco:
the state of the question. Madrid.
THE TRIBUNE
Conferences
and round tables
Antoni Nicolau, Eva Schubert and José Jiménez: Presentation of the virtual museum: “Discover
Islamic art in the Mediterranean”. Madrid.
Shahla Sherkat: Civil society and women’s movements in Iran. Madrid.
Maher Al Charif: Evolution of the concept of jihad in Islamic thought. Madrid.
Season “Economic and ecological consequences of conflicts in the Arab world”
Habib Ayeb: The geopolitics of water in the Middle East, from Sudan to Kurdistan. Madrid,
Barcelona and Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Khalid M. Khalid: Iraq: A war economy, population displacements and conditions of life
Gijón, Madrid and Barcelona.
Fouad Abdelmoumni and Hugh Roberts: Costs of the conflict in Western Sahara for the
development of the Maghreb. Madrid and Barcelona.
Muralee Thummarukudy: Conflict and the environment in the Arab world. Madrid and
Barcelona.
Milton Hatoum and Bernardo Atxaga: Identity and cultures in literature. Madrid.
Season “What present and what future for the Middle East?”
Raji Sourani:
Gaza: state of law or law of the jungle? Barcelona.
Political and social situation in Gaza. A human rights focus. Madrid.
Gaza, democracy and social and political rights.The role of the international community
and solidarity movements. Malaga.
Books presented:
Khadija Mohsen-Finan: Maghreb uncertainties. Madrid.
Beber y comer en el Mediterráneo (Eating and drinking in the Mediterranean), Paul Balta. Madrid
and Barcelona.
Alexander Murinson: Turkish foreign policy in the 21st century. Neo-Ottomanism and Islamic liberalism. Madrid.
Jacinto Soler Matutes: Presentation of the study: Spanish enterprise in Arab countries: experiences of investment and triangulation. Madrid.
THE BOOKSTAND
Books
and words
Alí Bey y los viajeros europeos a Oriente e (Alí Bey and European travellers in the Orient), Patricia
Almarcegui. Madrid.
El labrador de aguas (The water worker), Huda Barakat. Madrid and Barcelona.
Játim, Raja Alem. Madrid.
Abdelouahed Akmir: Alliance of civilisations: Spain and Islam. Morocco month in the School of
Arab Studies of Granada.
Rojo y verde. Alimentación y cocinas en Marruecos (Red and green. Food and cooking in Morocco)
Isabel González Turmo, Fatima El Ouardari and Abdeslam El Aallali. Madrid and Barcelona.
Leila Chafai: The Moroccan feminist movement and social changes. Morocco month in the School
of Arab Studies of Granada.
El 2007 visto por los árabes. Anuario de prensa árabe (2007 seen by the Arabs. Annual Report of
the Arab press), Pedro Rojo (ed.). Seville and Madrid.
Delphine Minoui: Women in Iran, the other voice of Teheran. Cordoba and Seville.
Sufismo y surrealismo (Sufism and surrealism), Adonis. Madrid.
Aoua Bocar Ly-Tall: Arab-Muslim Women: globalisation and peace. Puente Genil.
Women for peace and against violence in a globalised World. Collaboration with the IV edition of
the University of Jaén’s Globalisation Observatory.
Hijos de las nubes (Sons of the clouds), Sophie Caratini. Madrid.
Talal Asad: Suicide terrorism. Madrid.
Los chivos (The goats), Driss Chraïbi. Madrid and Barcelona.
Ghada Al Siliq: Baghdad. Images and memories. Madrid.
Presentation of La colección Sgarit. Biblioteca del desierto, (Sgarit collection. Library of the desert),
marking the appearance of its first two titles, reprints of Estudios Saharianos (Saharan Studies) by
Julio Caro Baroja and El imperio desierto (Desert empire) by Ramón Mayrata.
Firas Ahmad: Islam and the media in the United States. Madrid.
Bouthaina Shaaban: Syria and international dynamics. Madrid.
El juego de las golondrinas (The swallows’ game), Zeina Abirached. Madrid.
Guía de las músicas del Magreb (Guide to Maghreb music), Rubén Caravaca and Yolanda Agudo
(eds.) Barcelona, Madrid, San Sebastián, Bilbao, Seville and Saragossa.
Patrick Cockburn: Iraq: situation and political future. Madrid.
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Habib Slim: Tunisia and international relations in the Maghreb. Cordoba.
Segregados y recluidos. Los palestinos y las amenazas a su seguridad (Segregated and secluded.
Palestinians and the threat to their security). Rafael Escudero Alday (ed). Madrid.
Eva Evers Rosander: Divorce in Spain among Moroccans: aspects of gender, legal pluralism and
transnationality. Madrid.
La aventura del cálamo. Historia, formas y artistas de la caligrafía árabe (The adventure of the quill.
History, forms and artists of Arab calligraphy). José Miguel Puerta Vílchez. Madrid.
Nouzha Skalli: Morocco and the challenges of social development. Madrid.
Las mil noches y una noche (A thousand nights and one night). Mario Vargas Llosa. Madrid.
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Film seasons:
Debates, dialogues:
Creativity, dissidence and women in Arab societies. Dialogue with Nawal al-Saadawi. Madrid.
A melancholy self with Abdelá Taïa. International Festival of Gay and Lesbian Cinema of Andalusia.
Cordoba.
Poetry reading with Widad Benmoussa. Madrid.
Reading in homage to Mahmud Darwish. Madrid.
Poetry for infants in five languages. Troballengües/ Trobalinguas/ Electrobak/ Trovalenguas/Anashid
gina´iyya, Miquel Desclot, Antonio García Teijeiro, Juan Kruz Igerabide and Ana María Romero
Yebra. Madrid.
From the Bekaa to Maipú: Arab footprints in Latin American literature. María Olga Samamé, Edith
Chahin and Miguel Hakim. Madrid.
Mixed identities in Latin American literature with María Olga Samamé, Jean-Arsne Yao. Madrid.
In collaboration with Casa America.
A certain orient: the work of Milton Hatoum. Milton Hatoum and Alfredo Taján. Malaga. In collaboration with the Atheneum of Malaga.
Deconstruction of East and West, and local government, Manuel Montobbio, Pierre Schori, José
María Ridao, Gema Martín Muñoz, Fernando Vallespín and Andrés Ortega. In collaboration with
Icaria publishers and the Foundation for Internacional Relations and External Dialogue (FRIDE). Madrid.
Participation in festivals:
Hay Literature Festival Cartagena de Indias: Huda Barakat (Lebanon), Yasser Abdel Latif (Egypt).
Cartagena de Indias, third edition.
Cosmopoética 2008 Cordoba: Ibrahim Nasrallah (Palestine), Abdul Hadi Sadoun (Iraq) and
Mohamed Bennis (Morocco).
Hay Festival Alhambra, first edition: Raja Alem (Saudi Arabia), Murid Barguti (Palestine), Radwa
Ashur (Egypt), Huda Barakat (Lebanon), Hamid Triki (Morocco), Elias Khoury (Lebanon), Adhaf
Soueif (Egypt), Najat El Hachmi (Spain). Granada.
Book Night. Madrid.
Round table: The Yacoubian building, novel and film.
Evening: of Arab music and words.
Seville Book Fair.
Urban cartographies: the city in contemporary Arab cinema
Falafel. Michel Kammoum
WWW: What a Wonderful World, Faouzi Bensaidi
Hoping for happiness, Abderrahmane Sissako
Chaos? Youssef Chahine and Khaled Youssef
Chronicle of a disappearance, Elia Suleiman
Viva l’Aldjerie, Nadir Moknèche
Madrid, Cordoba and Granada.
Tales from Iraq
Turtles also fly, Bahman Ghobadi
Underexposure, Oday Rasheed
Iraq in fragments, James Longley
Ahlaam, Mohamed Al Daradji
A candle for Café Shabandar, Emad Ali
A foreigner in his own country, Hassanain al Hani
The farewell, Bahram Al Zuhai
Life after the fall, Kasim Abid
Madrid.
First steps of Maghreb cinema
Days and days, Ahmed El Maanouni
Warning lights of the desert, Nacer Khemir
Omar Gatlato, Merzak Allouache
Footprints, Hamid Bennani
Madrid.
Homage to Youssef Chahine
Central station
Alexandria… Why?
The sixth day
Destiny
Madrid.
Documenta Madrid 2008. V Madrid International Documentaries Festival Panorama of
contemporary Arab documentary cinema II “Identity and Revision of History”
BerlínBeirut, Myrna Maakaron
Mixed salad, Nadia Kamel
Flood in the country of Baaz, Omar Amiralay
You, Waguih, Namir Abdel Messeeh
Land of Women, Jean K. Chamoun
No one returned from there, Nader Helal
My brother Arafat, Rashid Masharawi
Personal investigation, Ula Tabari
The colour of sacrifice, Murad Boucif
Madrid Book Fair.
Round table: Identity and the revision of history in Arab documentary. Madrid.
Hay Festival Segovia 2008: Widad Benmoussa (Morocco).
International story competition A sea of words. The Spanish network of the Ana Lindh
EuroMediterranean Foundation for Dialogue between Cultures. Madrid.
Participation in festivals:
XI International Festival of Films Produced by Women. Saragossa.
VIEWPOINTS
35th edition of the International Day of Bahía Cinema “1968 Forty years later”. Salvador de Bahía,
Brazil.
Cinema
San Sebastian Film Festival. Cinema in Movement 4.
Rana’s wedding by Hany Abu-Assad. Malaga, Madrid.
Festival Amal 08: International Festival of Euro-Arab Cinema (Santiago de Compostela).
Dunia by Jocelyne Saab. Madrid, Cordoba, Granada.
African Cinema Festival of Tarifa.
Bled Number One by Rabah Ameur Zaïmeche. Madrid, Cordoba.
Malaga Festival.
Pre-screening of the documentary: Rif 1921, a forgotten history, by Manuel Horrillo. Madrid.
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EXHIBITIONS
MIXED PROGRAMMES
Photography exhibition Spain and the Arab world: Images of a century of political relations. Cairo,
Madrid and Seville.
Yemen Today. Viewpoints, Voices and Players. Madrid.
Tribune
Politics, society and creation in Yemen today
Yusif Mohammed Abdullah, Husain Abdullah al Amri, Amna al Nasiri, Nabila al Zubair,
François Burgat.
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Exhibition: Collectif 212: Contemporary art in Morocco. Madrid.
Exhibition: Ibn Jaldún, between al-Andalus and Egypt. Cairo. Collaboration with the Legado Andalusí
Foundation.
Photography exhibition: The city according to Jane Jacobs. Cordoba.
Osama Esid: Play of representations. The Egyptian experience. Jaén, Tarifa, Granada and Cordoba.
Photography exhibition Voices of Iraq. Cordoba and Jaén.
Photography exhibition: Maghreb, the Arab west. Cordoba and Seville.
City of mirage. Baghdad, from Wright to Venturi. Barcelona, Madrid and Murcia.
Palestine before 1948. Santiago de Compostela, in collaboration with the Araguaney Foundation.
XXX edition of the Biennale of Pontevedra
Collective exhibition Without frontiers: Hispano-Maghrebi artistic convergences.
Voices. Concert
Ahmed Fathi, Ali al Akwa’a and the Munshidin.
Viewpoints. Cinema
A new day in old Sanaa by Bader Ben Hirsi.
Poetry reading of the work Estaciones para las tristezas de Saba (Seasons for Saba’s sadnesses) by the poet Ahmed Al Awadi.
Publication of the book Estaciones para las tristezas de Saba (Seasons for Saba’s sadnesses) of the poet Ahmed Al Awadi with illustrations by Amna al Nasiri.
Palestine/ The Nakba: 60 years of unresolved conflict (1948-2008). Madrid.
Voices. Concert
Rim Banna, the Palestinian voice.
Tribune
Mustafa Barguti: The significance of the Nakba for Palestinians. Madrid.
VOICES
Concerts
Abderrahmane Abdelli. Cordoba.
Majid Bekkas. Moroccan Blues concert, Guitar Festival, Cordoba, and EsCultural 08 Programme,
Puente Genil.
Rabih Abou-Khalil, Madrid Jazz Festival.
Enrique Morente and the Maestros de Jajouka: Sound of water: music from Spain and Africa. Expo
Saragossa 2008.
H- Kayne in concert. Jerez de la Frontera.
Maâlem Abdendi El Gadari and the gnawa group "Bambara". European Day of Music. Madrid.
FESTIVAL OF RAMADAN NIGHTS
Voices. Concert:
Oumar Pène and Le Super Diamono of Dakar (Senegal).
Chaba Zahouania (Algeria).
Noura (Mauritania).
H-Kayne (Morocco).
Viewpoints. Cinema:
Transes, Ahmed El-Maanouni.
Conference and tasting:
Dishes of Ramadan.
Salah Yamal, Maria Llardent, Amina Saw, Mohamed Shawkat Ali.
Workshops:
Music, dance, animation, calligraphy, games, photography.
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To mark the International Day of Solidarity with Palestine declared by the UNO. Madrid.
Tribune
The current situation of the Palestinian refugees, Nur Masalha.
Palestine in the cinema, Kais Al-Zubaidi.
Viewpoints. Cinema
Palestine, chronicle of a people, Kais Al-Zubaidi.
Bookstand
Segregated and secluded. Palestinians and the threats to their security, Rafael Escudero Alday (ed.).
Extraordinary meeting of the High Board of Trustees presided over by Their Majesties the
King and Queen.
Inauguration of the photography exhibition: Spain and the Arab world. Images of a century
of political relations.
Performance Hispano-Egyptian Desordances by Dani Panullo Dancetheatre Co.
Arab contributions to Ibero-American identities, Seminar, Rio de Janeiro.
Round tables
The arrival of Arabs in Ibero-America: a national and regional approach
Itineraries, journeys and dynamics of migration. The southern cone and the cases of
Argentina and Brazil, Hamurabi Noufouri, Paulo Hilu Pinto.
A country open or closed to Arab immigration. The Andean region and the cases of Chile and
Colombia, Eugenio Chahuán, Pilar Vargas.
Insertions and culture shocks. Central America, the Caribbean and the cases of Cuba and
Mexico, Rigoberto Menéndez Paredes, Carlos Martínez Assad.
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The Arab component in the Ibero-American melting pot
Socioeconomic contributions. From peddler to entrepreneur, John Tofik Karam, Lorenzo Agar.
COURSES
Political contributions of Arab-Americans. The long road to the presidential seat, María del
Mar Logroño, Oswaldo Truzzi.
Beginners course in Arabic calligraphy
Cultural contributions. The literature of the mahyar and Latin American orientalism. Other creations: plastic and performing arts, Rosa Isabel Martínez Lillo, Horacio Cagni.
The Arab world and the Americas today
Perceptions of the Arab world in the Americas. The international press and the fourth generation of Arab Americans, Farid Kahhat, Camila Pastor, Gema Martín Muñoz.
The image of Latin America in the Arab world, Dima Khatib, Zidane Zeraoui.
Voices. Concert
Eblén Macari Trío.
Viewpoints. Cinema
The last moon, Miguel Littín.
I am Palestinian, Osama Qashoo.
El baisano Jalil, Joaquín Pardavé.
Lavoura Arcaica, Luiz Fernando Carvalho.
Cinema, polítics and society in Arab countries.
Round tables and panorama of documentary cinema. Santiago de Chile and Lima.
Viewpoints. Cinema
Personal investigation, Ula Tabari
You, Waguih, Namir Abdel Messeeh
BerlínBeirut, Myrna Maakaron
Amina, Khadija Al-Salami
Everyone has their Palestine, Nadine Naous y Léna Rouxel
Chatila roundabout, Maher Abi Samra
Tears of the sheikhas, Ali Essafi
Hassan “the astute”, Mahmoud Al Massad
Time for news, Azza El Hassan
Those girls, Tahani Rached
I would like to tell them: God, the law and women, Dalila Ennadre
VHS Kahloucha, Nejib Belkhadi
Round tables
Identity with Ula Tabari and Nelson Manrique
Women, with Khadija Al-Salami and Judith Vélez
Refugees with Maher Abi Samra and Luis del Valle
SEMINARS
Days of the Gulf Cooperation Council. Madrid
Dialogue between Spain and the States of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
Miguel Ángel Moratinos, Abdel Rahman Bin Hamad Al Atiyyah, Gema Martín Muñoz, Najeeb
Abdulla Alshamsi and Martín Ortega Carcelén.
Seminar European Islam, between religious traditions and secular formations. (ISIM) Poland, Germany.
Seminar of the French Institute of the Middle East (IFOP) International colloquium. The construction
of Palestine: 60 years after the débâcle. Damascus.
International Congress Iridescences of Asian and Muslim countries (University of Extremadura).
Cáceres.
Courses in Arabic.
Courses in Moroccan dialect (dariya).
Arabic calligraphy workshops in educational centres in the Madrid region.
Virtual Museum “Discovering Islamic Art”. Presentation and workshop. Madrid.
UNED course: Employment, Poverty and Emigration in Mediterranean Arab Countries. Motril.
Summer school Madinat Al-Zahra, history and archaeology of Al-Andalus, Summer University of
Cordoba 2008. Cordoba.
Summer school: It fills with voices… (Reflections about urban space). Summer University of
Cordoba and VIMCORSA.
IX Meeting of Textiles. Axerquía Neighbourhood Association and delegation for popular participation
of Cordoba Town Hall.
Course for primary school teachers. Images for living together. Teachers Support Centre, Collado
Villalba, Madrid.
Course in Arabic for primary school teachers, CEIP Cañada Real and CAP Madrid-west.
RECORDS OF MEMORY
Maher Al-Sharif
Talal Asad
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Visit of the President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania. Cordoba and Seville.
Visit of HM Queen Rania of Jordan to Casa Árabe’s headquarters in Madrid.
Visit of a parliamentary delegation of the National Federal Council of State of the United Arab
Emirates, in collaboration with the Senate.
Visit of a group of Egyptian professionals to Cordoba and Madrid. In collaboration with the Carolina
Foundation.
Performance: The place and the word. Interrupted conversation. Beirut. Madrid. In collaboration
with the Cervantes Institute in Beirut.
XXI Symposium of SEEA. Albacete.
Presentation of the conclusions of the 23th Congress of Journalists of the Strait. Journalism and
climate change. Cordoba.
Official handover of the Collection of civil sentences declared by the Supreme Court during the
period of the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco to the President of the Supreme Court of the
Kingdom of Morocco. Madrid.
I International Forum of women and local politics. Cordoba.
V Forum of Hispano-Moroccan Jurists. Saragossa.
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94.Casa Árabe’s team
Gema Martín Muñoz
Director General
Sergio Vidueira Martínez
Manager
Mariló Sancho Velázquez
Tribunes and Communication (Cordoba)
Cristina Pensado Banet
Executive Adviser
Rafael Santiago Reyes
Management and Human Resources
(Cordoba)
Tamim El Dalati Huguet
Press Director
Isaías Barreñada Bajo
Coordinator of Educational Programmes and
Publications
Nuria Medina García
Coordinator of Cultural Programmes
Olivia Orozco de la Torre
Coordinator of the Socioeconomic and
Business Programme
Daniel Gil Flores
Associate Educational Programmes and
Publications
M’hani Belrhrib El Hamdouni
Associate Educational Programmes and
Publications
Elena González González
Associate Cultural Programmes
Víctor Gutiérrez Castillo
Institutional and Academic Relations
(Cordoba)
Rafael Moreno López
Associate Cultural Programmes
Elena Arigita Maza
Chief Researcher (IEAM)
Javier Lesaca Esquiroz
Associate Researcher Socioeconomic
Observatory
Rafael Ortega Rodrigo
Chief Researcher (IEAM)
Francisco Javier Rosón Lorente
Researcher (IEAM)
Rocío Vázquez Martí
Researcher (IEAM)
Amira Kedier
Researcher (IEAM)
Karim Hauser Askalani
Arabia Americana Programme
Ana Isabel González Santamaría
Business Forum
Paula Santillán Grimm
Arabic Language Centre
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Rafael Marcos Gómez
Management Associate
Ruth Pimentel Touya
Associate Press and Communications Office
Yolanda Rodríguez Ramírez
Management Assistant
Maribel Gálvez Casado
Personal Assistant Director General and
General Archive
Nadia Makki Hornedo
Secretary Director General’s office
Irene González Blanco
Administrative Assistant
Almudena Rubio Gálvez
Administrative Assistant Management
Casa Árabe
Annual Report 2008
Jaime López Francisco
Media Library
Nagla Abd el Monem
Administrative Assistant Forum and
Education
Nuria Torres Santo Domingo
Documentation Centre
Irene Quintana Suárez
Administrative Assistant Culture and Tribunes
Published by Casa Árabe
Translated by Elizabeth Nash
Designed by rez
Printed by Rotosa
Jumana Trad Yunes
Seminars and Tribunes
Rosario Carrasco Pérez
Administrative Assistant (Cordoba)
Published in September 2009
Legal number M-38968-2009
This report is available on
www.casaarabe.es
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