Casa Árabe and its International Institute of Arab and Muslim World

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Casa Árabe and its International Institute of
Arab and Muslim World Studies (IEAM) was
founded on 6 July 2006 and started work in
January, 2007.
This new House, with headquarters in Madrid and
Cordoba, was established by the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, the Regional
Government of Andalusia, the Regional
Government of Madrid, and the Town Halls of
Madrid and Cordoba, to act as a bridge between
Spain and Arab and Islamic countries.
It aims to operate as a tool of public diplomacy,
to spread knowledge, carry out research, encourage debate and the exchange of ideas, and promote projects of common interest. Its activities
are based in its twin headquarters, but Casa
Árabe seeks to be regarded as a nationwide institution. It therefore developed from the outset an
important programme of activities in other
Spanish cities.
It has also presented itself in several Arab capitals
to promote its aim of working jointly with local
institutions in activities throughout the Arab
world.
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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
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Árabe
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Miguel Ángel Moratinos Cuyaubé
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation
Letter from the President of Casa Árabe
Casa Árabe has matured quickly and established itself as a solidly based institution
of public diplomacy able to form relations
and exchange knowledge between Spain,
Arab countries and the Muslim world,
thanks to the institutional coordination and
technical drive of members of the Casa
Árabe public consortium. The process of
creation and setting up has been intense
and rewarding: activities have speedily
consolidated themselves, as have Casa
Árabe’s presence and projection nationally
and internationally. The institution, based
in Madrid and Cordoba, is the only public
consortium belonging to a network of similar Casas (houses) to have established an
international research and studies institute.
Casa Árabe has facilitated in its short trajectory a rapprochement with Arab institutions and societies, and has fostered a
diverse and pluralistic vision of a complex
reality, in which counterposed movements
and forces, modernity and historical frameworks work together. Spanish foreign
policy commitments and our long tradition
of diplomatic relations have always been
enriched by the Arab dimension, and by
Spain’s interaction with this area of the
world, both bilaterally and multilaterally.
Social, economic and cultural Hispano-Arab
interchanges have been very fruitful in recent
years, and Casa Árabe has collaborated
enthusiastically in this task for more than a
year. It is gradually incorporating Spanish
and Arab societies into this framework of
relations. Today we are less remote from
Arab and Muslim social movements, institutions, scholars and thinkers, creators,
companies and investors, and closer to the
diversity of their political discourse. Through
its activities: Tribune, Bookstand, the promotion of artistic creativity, the Festival of
Ramadan Nights, educational and academic
programmes, Sociopolitical Observatory,
Socioeconomic Forum, publications, studies and research at the International
Institute of Arab and Muslim World Studies
in Cordoba, Casa Árabe seeks to operate as
a sophisticated tool for public diplomacy,
active too on the Internet and in the use of
new technologies.
Casa Árabe enlivens the institutional collaboration of the Spanish state, through the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation,
the Regional Government of Madrid, the
Regional Government of Andalusia, and the
Town Halls of Madrid and Cordoba, by
opening new areas of joint activity between
Spanish and foreign institutions, public and
private. It collaborates in publicising the
idea of what the Human Rights specialist
Driss el-Yazami calls “an international civil
society”, while simultaneously revitalising
and broadening links between Spain and
Arab countries.
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LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR GENERAL
Casa
Árabe
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Gema Martín Muñoz
Director General of Casa Árabe – IEAM
Letter from the Director General of Casa Árabe
The Arab and Muslim World occupies a
central role in international relations today,
and the future of the region is vital for global stability. Spain is particularly interested
in a reality that through historical links and
geographical proximity forms one of the
basic axes of Spanish foreign policy.
Hence, Spanish activities abroad have
since the 1950s depended on policy instruments specifically oriented towards
Arab countries. The Institute of HispanoArab culture was formed in 1954; the
Institute of Cooperation with the Arab
World then operated from 1988 and 1995,
and was integrated into the Spanish
Institute for International Cooperation,
AECI. Casa Árabe, created in July 2006, is
the most ambitious and wideranging project of its kind to date, a consequence of
the increasing importance of this part of
the world in the international order.
Casa Árabe belongs to a broad network
of Casas (houses), to which it also brings
its individual mode of operating in the
Arab and Islamic sphere. In its first year
of activities, Casa Árabe set up and
developed several areas of programming
and Hispano-Arab interaction, covering
public diplomacy, culture, education,
publications, economics, research and
sociopolitics. These projects all serve to
meet the aims for which Casa Árabe was
created: cross-cultural communication
between the Arab World and the West;
critical debate amongst thinkers and
intellectuals; knowledge of the diversity
of the Arab and Islamic world as a counter to prejudices and stereotypes; and
actively promoting diplomatic and economic interaction.
Case Árabe builds on the foundation of
historical knowledge accumulated over
centuries, but it focuses on today’s world
to build a bridge between new generations
and agents for change and innovation.
Such a bridge facilitates the exchange of
ideas, visions and experiences and helps
understand the causes of conflicts, reasons for distance and opportunities for
rapprochement.
As the Egyptian intellectual Nasr Hamid
Abu Zayd points out, the world has for better or worse become a small village where
no closed or independent culture – if such
exists – can survive. We must negotiate,
give, receive, borrow and lend. This is the
spirit that inspires Casa Árabe.
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INDEX
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Structure
Headquarters
Inauguration
of Casa Árabe
in Madrid and Cordoba
Casa Árabe’s Tribune
Casa Árabe’s Bookstand:
books and words
Culture and artistic creation
Viewpoints
Voices
Festival of
Ramadan Nights
66 58 56 54 52 50 46 44 42
40 38 34 32 30 26 22 18 16 08
Index
Sociopolitical
Observatory
Socioeconomic
Forum
Publications
The International Institute
of Arab and Muslim World
Studies (IEAM)
Instrument
of public diplomacy
Communication
and virtual space
Dynamics of institutional
collaboration
List of activities
Casa Árabe’s Team
Educational and
Academic programmes
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Structure
GOVERNING BOARD
President
Miguel Ángel Moratinos Cuyaubé Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation
Vice Presidents
Manuel Chaves González President of the Regional Government of Andalusia
Esperanza Aguirre Gil de Biedma President of the Regional Government of Madrid
Alberto Ruiz Gallardón Mayor of Madrid
Rosa Aguilar Rivero Mayor of Cordoba
DIRECTOR GENERAL
Gema Martín Muñoz
DIPLOMATIC BOARD
HIGH BOARD OF TRUSTEES
ADVISORY BOARD
Arab Ambassadors
accredited in Spain
Under the Honorary
Presidency of Their Majesties
the King and Queen of Spain
Personalities of acknowledged prestige related to the
Arab world
The Governing Board meets periodically
through the Delegate Commission, created to enable the institution to function
more flexibly. The Delegate Commission
met three times in 2007: on 10 January, 16
April and 30 October.
Delegate Commission
The Governing Board is the supreme
organ of government of Casa Árabe and
its International Institute of Arab and
Muslim World Studies (IEAM). Member
institutions of the consortium that forms
Casa Árabe are represented on the
Governing Board which, according to its
statutes, must meet at least twice a year.
During 2007, it met on 19 July and 18
November.
Meeting of the Governing
Board
Governing Board
Meeting of the Delegate
Commission
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STRUCTURE
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Governing Board
General Directorship
High Board of Trustees
Diplomatic Board
Advisory Board
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Members of the Governing Board
Members of the
Governing Board of
Casa Árabe
PRESIDENT
n Miguel Ángel Moratinos
Cuyaubé
Minister of Foreign Affairs and
Cooperation
VICE PRESIDENTS
n Manuel Chaves González
President of the Regional
Government of Andalusia
MEMBERS
n Leire Pajín
Secretary of State for
Cooperation and President of the
Spanish Agency of International
Cooperation for Development
n Bernardino León
Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs
n Alberto Navarro
Secretary of State for the
European Union
n Rafael Dezcallar
n Gaspar Zarrías Arévalo
Minister for the Presidency of
the Regional Government of
Andalusia
n Santiago Fisas Ayxelá
Minister for Culture and Tourism
of the Regional Government of
Madrid
n Ana María Román Martín
Councillor for Coordination of
Studies and External Relations
of Madrid Town Hall (from June
2007)
Director General of Foreign Policy
n Miguel Ángel Villanueva
n Esperanza Aguirre Gil de
n Álvaro Iranzo
Biedma
President of the Regional
Government of Madrid
Director General of Foreign
Policy for the Mediterranean,
Middle East and Africa
Senior Adviser on Economics
and Civil Participation (until
June 2007)
n Alberto Ruiz Gallardón
n Alfons Martinell
Mayor of Madrid
Director General of Cultural and
Scientific Relations
n Rosa Aguilar Rivero
Mayor of Cordoba
n Ricardo Martínez
Director General of Cooperation
with Africa, Asia and Eastern
Europe
n Juan Díaz Muñoz
n Rafael Blanco Perea
First Deputy Mayor and
Delegate for Institutional
Relations and Culture of
Cordoba Town Hall (from June
2007)
n Andrés Ocaña Rabadán
First Deputy Mayor and Deputy
Mayor for Urban Development
(until June 2007)
Chief Adviser of the Minister of
Foreign Affairs and Cooperation
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Structure
General Directorship
The General Directorship is the superior
executive organ of Casa Árabe, occupied
by one person. Gema Martín Muñoz was
appointed Director General on 5 August
2006.
Gema Martín Muñoz is a Doctor of Arab
and Islamic Studies and Professor of
Sociology of the Arab and Islamic world at
the Autonomous University of Madrid.
She carried out postgraduate studies at
Cairo University, and is an acknowledged
Arabist in the field of contemporary studies on the Arab world, where she has
stayed on many occasions to conduct
research. The state of Egypt awarded her
the Great Order of Sciences and Arts of
Egypt in April 2006.
High Board of Trustees
HM King Juan Carlos
The High Board of Trustees of Casa Árabe
is presided over by Their Majesties the
King and Queen of Spain, and includes
distinguished representatives of politics,
culture, the economy and the media, from
both Spain and Arab countries.
The High Board of Trustees was constituted
on 22 February 2007 under the presidency
of Their Majesties the King and Queen of
Spain.
Abengoa
Felipe Benjumea Llorente
Chairman
Acciona
José Manuel Entrecanales
Domecq
Chairman
Banco Santander Central Hispano
Antonio Escámez
Member of the Executive Committee
Agbar
Jorge Mercader Miró
Chairman
CEOE (Spanish Confederation of
Employer’s Organizations)
Gerardo Díaz Ferrán - Chairman
Altadis
Antonio Vázquez Romero
Chairman of the Executive
Committee and Chief
Executive Officer
CEPSA
Carlos Pérez de Bricio Olariaga
Chairman
Aresbank
Juan Carlos Montañola
Executive Chairman
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Banco Marroquí de Comercio
Exterior
Mohamed Ben Chaib
General Manager
CEPYME (Spanish Confederation of
Small and Medium Companies)
Jesús Bárcenas López - Chairman
CESCE
Juan Badosa
Chairman
Founding meeting of High Board of
Trustees of Casa Árabe
Comisiones Obreras
(Workers Commissions)
José María Fidalgo
Secretary General
High Board of Chambers of
Commerce
Javier Gómez Navarro
Chairman
Dubai Port World
Mohammed Sharaf
Chief Executive Officer
Elecnor
Fernando Azaola
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
Godó Group
Javier Godó Muntañola
Chairman
Joly Group
José Joly Martínez de Salazar
Chairman
Prisa Group
Ignacio Polanco
Chairman
Villar Mir Group
Juan Miguel Villar Mir
Chairman
Vocento Group
Santiago de Ybarra y Churruca
Honorary Chairman
Iberdrola
Ignacio Sánchez Galán
Chairman
ICEX
(Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade)
Silvia Iranzo Gutiérrez
Chairwoman
IDB Group
Ahmed Mohamed Ali
Chairman
Gas Natural
Salvador Gabarró Serra
Chairman
Cervantes Institute
Carmen Caffarel
Director
Grespania
Luis Hernández Sanchís
Chief Executive Officer
League of Arab States
Amr Musa
Secretary General
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MINISTERIO
DE CULTURA
MINISTERIO
DE CULTURA
MINISTERIO
Ministry of Culture
César Antonio Molina Sánchez
Minister of Culture
Promomadrid
Jesús Sainz Muñoz
Chairman
Ministry of Education and
Science
Mercedes Cabrera Calvo-Sotelo
Minister of Education and Science
Ramón Vizcaíno Refrigeración
José Ramón Vizcaíno
Chairman
DE EDUCACIÓN,
POLÍTICA SOCIAL Y DEPORTE
MINISTERIO
DE EDUCACIÓN,
POLÍTICA SOCIAL
Y DEPORTE
MINISTERIO
MINISTERIO
DE INDUSTRIA,TURISMO
DE CULTURA
Y COMERCIO
MINISTERIO
Y COMERCIO
MINISTERIO
DE EDUCACIÓN,
POLÍTICA SOCIAL Y DEPORTE
MINISTERIO
Y COMERCIO
Ministry of Industry,
Tourism and Trade
Miguel Sebastián Gascón
Minister of Industry, Tourism and
Trade
Mondragón
José María Aldecoa
Chairman
Queen Sofia National
Museum and Art Center
Manuel Borja-Villel
Director
OPEC Fund for International
Development
Suleiman J. Al-Herbish
Director General
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
General Union of Workers
Cándido Méndez
Secretary General
Unicaja
Braulio Medel Cámara
Chairman
Founding meeting of the Casa Árabe High Board of Trustees
P4R
Carmen Rodríguez Díaz
Chairwoman
Repsol
Antonio Brufau Niubó
Chairman
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Diplomatic Board
Meeting of the Diplomatic Board
Casa Árabe’s Diplomatic Board
is a consultative body whose
members are the ambassadors
of Arab countries accredited in
Spain.
Diplomatic Board
The Diplomatic Board was formally constituted on 20 November
2006 under the chairmanship of
the Dean of ambassadors, HRH
Prince Saud Bin Naif Bin
Abdelaziz Al-Saud, Ambassador
of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
n HRH Prince Saud Bin Naif
Bin Abdelaziz Al-Saud
Ambassador of the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia
n HE Omar Azziman
Ambassador of the Kingdom of
Morocco
n HE Abdulwahed
R. Gammudi
Secretary of the Popular Office
of the Socialist People’s Libyan
Arab Jamahiriya
n HE Makram Obeid
Ambassador of the Arab
Republic of Syria
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
n HE Eluzai Moga Yokwe
Ambassador of the Republic of
Sudan
n HE Sultan Mohamed Ali
Khalfan Al Quartasi
Al-Noaimi
Ambassador of the United Arab
Emirates
Salim Al Maamary
Ambassador of the Sultanate of
Oman
n HE Zaid Al-Lozi
n HE Chucry Abboud
Ambassador of the Hashemite
Kingdom of Jordan
Ambassador of Lebanon
n HE Mohammed Haneche
Ambassador of the Democratic
Republic of Algeria
n HE Sheik Hilal Marhoon
n HE Sidi Mohamed Ould
Boubacar
Ambassador of the Islamic
Republic of Mauritania
n HE Mohammed Ridha
Kechrid
Ambassador of the Republic of
Tunisia
n HE Abdulrahman
Kamarani
Chargé d’Affaires of the
Republic of Yemen
n HE Saad Al-Hamdani
Chargé d’Affaires of the
Republic of Iraq
n HE Musa Amer Odeh
High Representative of
Palestine
n HE Battal Meajeb
Al-Dosari
Chargé d’Affaires of the State of
Qatar
n HE Hassine Bouzid
Office Director of the League of
Arab States
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Structure
Constitutive meeting of the
Advisory Board
Advisory Board
The Advisory Board of Casa
Árabe comprises Spanish and
non-Spanish personalities of
acknowledged prestige in the
field of relations with Arab countries.
It was formally constituted on 21
September 2007 in a ceremony
presided over by the Minister of
Foreign Affairs and Cooperation,
Miguel Ángel Moratinos.
The Advisory Board is responsible for making proposals and
suggestions to Casa Árabe,
which will request it to create
special scientific committees
within the framework of Casa
Árabe’s programmes.
Members of Casa Árabe´s
Advisory Board:
n Abderrahman Jah, Cherif
Chairman of the Foundation of
Islamic Culture
n Abu Zayd, Nasr
Ibn Rushd Chair of Islam and
Humanism, University of
Utrecht
n Asad, Talal
Anthropologist, New York
University
n Atoche Navarro, Aurora
Director General of CajaSur
Foundation
n Elena, Alberto
Ambassador of Spain. Director
General of the Toledo
International Centre for Peace
Professor of Film Studies. Carlos
III University of Madrid
n Chaib, Mohammed
n Cierco Jiménez de Parga,
Juan
General Director of International
Information, Ministry for the
Prime Minister
n Fabre, Thierry
n Corm, George
Economist and sociologist.
Former Finance Minister of
Lebanon. Professor at Saint
Joseph University of Beirut
n Corriente Córdoba, Federico
Professor of Arab Language.
Zaragoza University
n de Vasconcelos, Álvaro
n Bayat, Asef
n Dezcallar Mazarredo, Jorge
Academic Director of the
International Institute for the
Study of Islam in the Modern
World, Leiden University
Ambassador of Spain. Secretary
General, International Advisory
Board, Repsol-YPF
Chairman of the Spanish
Society of Arab Studies
(SEEA)
Translator
n Enciso Bergé, Ramón
Moroccan writer
n Carmona González, Alfonso
n Embarek López, Malika
Member of the Parliament of
Cataluña and Chairman of the
Ibn Batuta Sociocultural
Association
Director of the European Union’s
Institute for Security Studies
(ISS) and General Coordinator of
the Euromesco Network
n Barrada, Muhammed
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n Casinello Aubán, Emilio
n El Yazami, Driss
General Secretary of the
International Federation for
Human Rights (FIDH) and
Director of Géneriques
Coordinator of the Spanish
Group of the Averroes Committee
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, Jose 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, Jose María
Director of La Casa Encendida
Arts Centre
n Hernández León, Juan Miguel
Chairman of the Fine Arts Circle
n Ibrahim Ali, Haydar
Director of the Centre for
Sudanese Studies, Khartoum
n Kettani, Saad
Chairman of Wafa Assurance.
Member of the Averroes
Committee
n Kodmani, Bassma
n Pérez Yruela, Manuel
n Segura i Mas, Antoni
Political Scientist. Executive
Director of the
Arab Reform Initiative, Paris
Director of the Institute of
Advanced Social Studies of
Andalusia IESA-CSIC
Director of the Centre for
International and History Studies
of Barcelona University
n López de Aguirrebengoa,
Pedro
Ambassador of Spain
n Piscatori, James
n Shiqaqi, Khalil
Political Scientist, Centre for
Arab and Islamic Studies,
Australian National University
Director de Palestinian Center
for Policy and Survey Research
(Palestine)
n Rahmouni, Kamal
n Tatari, Riay
President of the Association of
Moroccan Immigrant Workers in
Spain (ATIME)
Secretary General of the Islamic
Commission of Spain
n Martínez Montávez, Pedro
Emeritus Professor of Arab and
Islamic Studies, Autonomous
University of Madrid
n Moya, Diego
Western Mediterranean Cultural
Association, MEDOCC
n Mustafa, Hala
Director of Political Studies of the
Al Ahram Centre of Strategic and
Political Studies. Editor of the
magazine Democracy, Egypt
n Nadal, Miquel
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
Ex-Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs. Director of the Royal
Automobile Club of Catalonia
(RACC)
Professor of Political Sciences
and Director of the Centre of
Studies and Research in Social
Sciences (CERES). Mohamed V
University of Rabat
n Noufouri, Hamurabi
n Sahagún, Felipe
Course Director of Arab,
American-Arab and Islamic
Studies of the Third February
University, Argentina
n Ortega, Andrés
Director of the Analysis and
Studies Department. Prime
Minister’s Office
n Ortega Salinas, Joaquín
Ambassador of Spain
n Torres Aguilar, Manuel
Vice Rector and Director of the
UNESCO Chair for Conflict
Resolution at Córdoba
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
Professor of Political Science,
Autonomous University of
Madrid
Member of the Editorial Board
of the daily El Mundo.
Professor of the Faculty of
Information Sciences,
Complutense University of
Madrid
n Vázquez Domínguez,
Enrique
Leader writer of the Vocento
group
n Sayigh, Yezid
n Viguera Molins, María Jesús
Professor of Middle East
Studies, King’s College
London
Professor of Arab and Islamic
Studies, Complutense University
of Madrid
n Pacheco Paniagua, Juan
Meeting of the Advisory Board
Antonio
Professor of Arab Studies. Seville
University
n Páez López, Jerónimo
Director of El Legado Andalusí
Foundation
n Parejo Fernández, Maria
Angustias
Professor of Political Sciences
and Administration. Granada
University
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Casa Árabe occupied two provisional
headquarters in Madrid and Cordoba
during 2007, prior to taking possession of
its definitive headquarters which were
undergoing renovation.
Madrid town hall formally handed over to
Casa Árabe early in 2008 the building at
62, Alcalá Street, which became the institution’s permanent headquarters in
Madrid.
Casa Árabe´s headquarters in Cordoba
The building of the Casa Mudéjar in
Cordoba, where the permanent headquarters in the city will be situated, is currently
being rebuilt and renovated.
Casa Árabe´s headquarters in
Madrid
HEADQUARTERS
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Casa Árabe´s headquarters in Cordoba •
Casa Árabe´s headquarters in Madrid •
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Headquarters
Headquarters in Madrid
Headquarters in Cordoba
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.
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
the historic centre of Cordoba, near the
Mosque-Cathedral, and within the area
declared a Heritage Site.
Martínez Rucker, 9. 14003 Córdoba
Tel.: +34 957 498 413
Fax: +34 957 478 025
Casa Árabe’s headquarters in Madrid
Alcalá, 62. 28009 Madrid
Tel.: +34 91 563 30 66
Fax: +34 91 563 30 24
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Founding
Sede CasaCeremony
Árabe en Madrid
IN MADRID AND CORDOBA
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INAUGURATION OF CASA ÁRABE
Casa
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Inauguration of Casa
Árabe in Madrid and
Cordoba
Case Árabe and its International Institute
of Arab and Muslim World Studies was
created on 6 July 2006 in the Foreign
Ministry’s Santa Cruz Palace in Madrid.
The formal ceremony was presided over
by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and
Cooperation, Miguel Ángel Moratinos, the
President of the Regional Government of
Andalusia, Manuel Chaves, the Mayor of
Madrid, Alberto Ruiz Gallardón, the Mayor
of Cordoba, Rosa Aguilar, the Secretary of
State for Cooperation, Leire Pajín, and the
Minister for Culture and Tourism of the
Regional Government of Madrid, Santiago
Fisas. The Secretary General of the
League of Arab States, Amr Musa, attended as guest of honour.
Casa Árabe was inaugurated in Madrid in
January 2007 with a programme devoted
to the creation and debate of ideas. Its
first public presentation took place in the
Zarzuela Theatre on 18 January with a
concert performed by the Trio Astrakan
Café, conducted by the Tunisian musician
Anouar Brahem, and the Palestinian singer Amal Murkus. The “Arab Worlds
Forum: ideas, actors, spaces” took place
on 19 January, and analysed the dynamics of political and social change in
various Arab countries. Participants
included specialists, thinkers and social
leaders from Jordan, Palestine, Bahrain,
Egypt, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco
and Tunisia. This first Casa Árabe Forum
organised four round tables that discussed: “Democratic reform and political
ideas”, “Women in the spotlight”, “New
technologies, new actors, new spaces”,
and “Creators in context”. These discus-
Hispano-Arab Political Conference
Inauguration of Casa Árabe in Madrid and Cordoba
Mauritanian trade unionist, Olfa Lamloum,
the Tunisian sociologist, and Taysir
Batniji, the Palestinian multimedia artist.
During the two-day event, films by
Algerian, Lebanese and Moroccan film
directors were shown.
Inauguration of Casa Árabe in Madrid
sions provided a platform for important
protagonists whose voices are rarely
heard in our country, such as al-Sayyed
Muhammad Hasan al-Amin, a leading
authority on the Shia religious community
in Lebanon, Mahjouba Mint Saleck, the
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Hispano-Arab Political Conference
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Casa Árabe launched its public diplomacy
initiative on 22 February, by organising the
First Hispano-Arab Political Conference
that included the Minister of Foreign
Affairs and Cooperation, Miguel Ángel
Moratinos, and the foreign ministers of 19
of the 22 Arab countries.
The ministers also expressed their “satisfaction at the establishment of Casa
Árabe, which embodies the friendship and
close relations between Arabs and
Spaniards, and seeks to be a common
home, open to all.”
Inauguration of Casa Árabe in Cordoba
During the meeting, the first of its kind to
take place in Spain, the Spanish and Arab
foreign ministers debated Hispano-Arab,
Middle Eastern and Euro-Mediterranean
political questions. They underlined their
“shared wish to promote peace and economic and social development.”
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Inauguración de Casa Árabe
en Madrid y Córdoba
Their Majesties the King and Queen of
Spain presided over Casa Árabe’s High
Board of Trustees, in the presence of the
Arab ministers.
Casa Árabe was inaugurated in Cordoba on
16 March. The Minister of Foreign Affairs and
Cooperation and President of Casa Árabe,
Miguel Ángel Moratinos, the President of the
Regional Government of Andalusia, Manuel
Chaves, the Mayor of Cordoba, Rosa Aguilar,
the Minister for Culture and Tourism of the
Regional Government of Madrid, Santiago
Fisas, ambassadors of Arab countries accredited in Spain, and the Director General of
Casa Árabe, Gema Martín Muñoz, visited
Casa Mudéjar, future headquarters of Casa
Árabe in Cordoba.
Afterwards, a formal act of inauguration
took place when political members of Casa
Árabe’s consortium addressed various
political and cultural personalities in the
Alcázar of Cordoba.
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Casa Árabe´s Tribune
Casa Árabe’s Tribune offers a forum for
debate and conferences intended to publicise information, and analyse and express
the diversity of voices in the Arab world.
Tribune provides an opportunity for important figures in Arab countries, who are
rarely heard in Spain, to achieve two main
aims: to make known the variety of voices
and ideas present in the Arab world, and
to open direct debate between them and
Spanish society.
Tribune is interdisciplinary, dealing with
socio-political, literary, economic and
artistic subjects. Casa Árabe’s Tribune
organised 26 conferences and round
tables in 2007, many of them repeated in
various cities.
Mohamed Tozy, Gema Martín
Muñoz and Mohamed Ayyadi
Some dealt with the cutting edge of
current events, as with conferences on
“Al-Qaeda against Islam” by Jean-Pierre
Filiu; “Analysis of the legislative elections
in Morocco” by Mohamed Tozy and
Mohamed Ayyadi; “Affective and sexual
diversity and human rights in Arab countries” by Nisreen Mazzawi and “Women in
international migrations” by Sophie
Bessis.
Sophie Bessis
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Various themed cycles of events introduced a broader multi-dimensional approach.
In What present and what future for the
Middle East?, George Corm, Samir Aita,
Hala Mustafa, Mohammad Reza-Djalili,
Haydar Ibrahim Ali and Raji Sourani analysed the evolution and international significance of the political situation in Lebanon,
Syria, Egypt, Sudan, Iran, Iraq and
Palestine. In the cycle Economic and ecological consequences of the conflicts in
the Arab World, specialists in economics,
geography and the environment explored
these vital questions in Iraq, Lebanon,
Palestine and Sahara, during seven conferences. They also discussed the wide-ranging problem of water management.
Patricia Almárcegui, Osama Esid, José
Abu-Tarbush and Rogelio López
Cuenca
Others opted for historical reflection, as in
the conferences addressed by Palestinian
and Israeli politicians and academics to
mark the anniversary of Resolution 181 of
the UN General Assembly, which led to the
partition of Palestine.
Hala Mustafa
Mohammad Reza-Djalili
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An additional advantage of Tribune is its
ability on occasions to complement other
Casa Árabe programmes, by organising
conferences or debates with filmmakers,
musicians or artists whose films, performances or artworks are exhibited as part
of Casa Árabe’s cultural activities. The
exhibition Voices of Iraq, for example,
included two round tables and a conference on the experience of journalists, and the
social difficulties faced by Iraqi refugees.
These events helped put the photographic
exhibition into context. In connection with
the film cycles Creation beneath the
bombs and Panorama of contemporary
Arab documentary cinema, Tribune organised round tables with various film directors
and the actors Dalila Ennadre, Ula Tabari,
Adnan Mdanat, Hamudi Jasem and Ali
Hammoud, so that the audience could talk
to them about their own personal experience and the creative process.
Most activities of Casa Árabe’s Tribune
have been held in Madrid and Cordoba,
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the institution’s two headquarters. But
Casa Árabe has made an effort to promote this aspect of its work in many Spanish
cities, working jointly with local institutions. This enables as many people as
possible to gain direct access to information about the current situation in Arab
countries. Accordingly, Tribune held
events jointly with IEMed and with CIDOB
in Barcelona, with the Pedro García
Cabrera Foundation in Santa Cruz de
Tenerife, with the support of the Al Quds
Association in Malaga, with the EuroArab
Foundation in Granada, and with the
Three Cultures Foundation in Seville.
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Olfa Lamloum, Miral el-Tahawy and Yasmine Kassari
Rima Khalaf Huneidi, Latifa Al-Gaoud and Mahjouba
Mint Saleck
Asma Chaabi, Gamal Eid and Haydar Ali Ibrahim
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Casa Árabe’s Bookstand:
books and words
Reading, fiction as well as poetry or
essays, is an essential way of getting close
to Arab realities … and all the better if this
can be linked to dialogue. Casa Árabe
aims to publicise books by Arab authors
that are translated into Spanish, and works
about the Arab world published in Spain.
Given the great number of books published every year, the main problem is achieving visibility for these books. That’s why
we have prioritised activities that help
make Arab books and their authors more
widely known.
One of the main activities in this field was
to launch new publications jointly with
publishers with the participation of authors
and Spanish commentators. We called this
activity Casa Árabe’s Bookstand (in
Spanish “Anaquel”, which comes from the
Arab word for bookshelf an-naqqal).
Maruja Torres at the presentation of her book
BOOKS AND WORDS
CASA ÁRABE’S BOOKSTAND
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Carmen López Alonso, Badia Hadj Nasser and Murid Barghouthi
Casa Árabe’s Bookstand: books and words
The Palestinian Mustafá Barghouthi at the presentation of his book
Presenting books gives an opportunity to
discuss a particular topic, or to become
more familiar with the work of an individual
author. We organised presentations of
books of essays, and works of fiction, in
Madrid, Barcelona, Cordoba and Malaga
throughout 2007. We heard from the writers
Alaa al-Aswani (Egypt), Idris Ali (Egypt),
Yaser Abdel-Latif (Egypt), Sahar Khalifeh
(Palestine), Ibrahim al-Koni (Libya), Zouhir
Louassini (Morocco) and Badia Hadj Nasser
(Morocco). Other participants were the political actors Mustafá Barghouthi (Palestine)
and Michel Warschawski (Israel); the researchers and essayists George Corm
(Lebanon), Abdallah Laroui (Morocco),
Abdeljalil Akkari (Switzerland-Tunisia) and
Nizar Tajditi (Morocco); Spanish professors
Carmen López Alonso, Walid Saleh
Alkhalifa, Nieves Paradela, José Miguel
Puerta Vilches and Vicente Millán.
Journalists included Tomás Alcoverro,
Maruja Torres and José Tono Martínez,
among others.
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Round table organised at the Madrid Book Fair, and
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Samih al-Qasim at the Hay Festival in Segovia
Casa Árabe participated in book fairs,
as an additional way of promoting
books by Arab authors or about Arab
matters. The first experience was the
annual Madrid Book Fair, where we had
a stand offering a wide selection of
recent titles that ranged from poetry,
travel literature, gastronomy and language learning to historical and sociopolitical essays. We also organised a
programme of children’s activities and
round tables. This activity laid the basis
for a future Casa Árabe bookshop that
would specialise in works on Arab subjects and by Arab authors.
The well-known Palestinian poet Samih alQasim performed a poetry reading in
Arabic in Madrid on 26 September, which
attracted Arab-speakers and lovers of
Arab literature.
Casa Árabe established an association
with various festivals taking place in diffe-
Cover of the guide A Thousand and one books to
introduce the Arab world
Casa Árabe has produced and distributed a reading guide, A Thousand and
one books to introduce the Arab
world, as an additional way of projecting books by Arab writers and on Arab
subjects. The guide assembles references to recent works that provide an
insight into the history, politics, sociology and literature of the region. We
printed 3,000 copies of this handbook,
which is also available online. We distributed it widely in all Casa Árabe’s
activities and at book fairs where we
participated.
Casa Árabe has an Advisory Committee
for literature, comprised of distinguished
specialists in Arab literature, professors
and translators: Pedro Martínez Montávez,
Malika Embarek, Nieves Paradela, Dolores
López Enamorado, Gonzalo Fernández
Parrilla and Mercedes del Amo help the
institution in planning and developing activities.
Javier Valenzuela, Tomás Alcoverro, Gema Martín Muñoz and
Juan Cierco
Conference-Debate “World trade faced with
Globalisation. From the 8th to the 18th century”, held in the National Library
rent Spanish cities, aimed at promoting
the participation of prominent Arab
authors in literary festivals. The first experience was that of the Second Hay Festival
in Segovia, from 27 to 30 September. The
poets Samih al-Qasim and Murid
Barghouthi, and the Lebanese novelist
Hanan al-Sheij took part.
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Culture and Artistic
Creation
Our activities in the sphere of culture and
artistic creation follow the same guiding
principles that govern Casa Árabe’s overall strategy: to spread knowledge about
the variety of artistic representations in
today’s Arab world. Our particular priority,
therefore, is to present and showcase
new and young Arab creative artists and
the context in which they develop their
work. In this first year, we established a
programme designed to offer these unfamiliar visions of Arab creativity in their
various disciplines. The temporary need
to use venues and rooms belonging to
other related cultural bodies in Spain had
the positive effect of strengthening links
of cultural cooperation, and introduced an
Arab perspective into these institutions’
activities. This helped to make the Arab
aspect appear more frequently, in addition to the specific programmes that Casa
Árabe plans to develop from its permanent headquarters.
Casa Árabe opted in this first year of consolidation to emphasise in various cultural
arenas exhibitions and activities that offered broad panoramic visions, rather than
concentrate on the specific work of individual artists. We sought in this way to
introduce to the broad Spanish public the
wide variety of Arab artistic discourses
and forms.
Poster of the exhibition by Osama Esid in Cordoba
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Culture and Artistic Creation
Leire Pajín at the inauguration of Voices of Iraq
Exhibitions
Voices of Iraq in Madrid
Our exhibitions programme began last
June with two very different photographic
exhibitions. The Voices of Iraq exhibition
was the result of cooperation between
Casa Árabe and the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP). The
exhibition travelled to the Spanish cities
of Madrid, Alcobendas, Cordoba and
Granada, showing the work of young Iraqi
photojournalists who studied at the
Reuters Foundation through a programme
financed by the AECID, in collaboration
with the UNDP. It was named after Iraq’s
new independent news agency, Aswat alIraq.
The second photographic exhibition,
entitled Play of Representations: the
Egyptian experiment, celebrated the
work of the Syrian photographer Osama
Esid. At a time when artistic discourses
are deconstructing images and representations, Osama Esid proposes the
opposite: he seeks to fabricate or build
orientalist stereotypes, with a didactic
purpose. Using basic photographic
tools, Esid presents to the viewer a
mirror image of how clichés were formed
and how they have operated in Western
images of the Arab world since the colonial period. This exhibition, which travelled to Cordoba and Jaen, offered the
best possible starting point for the process of reflection that Casa Árabe wants
to encourage.
The exhibitions programme in 2007 enabled us to launch a particular line of
work aimed at promoting among
Spaniards those Arab artists who live in
Spain. The veteran Moroccan painter
Said Messari set the ball rolling with his
project Meditative Reflections. This is an
aspect of work that Casa Árabe wants to
consolidate.
The year 2007 ended with a seminar
about an analysis that the specialist
curator of contemporary art Catherine
David has been working on for years
through her “Contemporary Arab
Representations” programme. The
seminar was organised jointly with the
I+D Arte y Política group, which is attached
to
Madrid’s
Complutense
University. The group, which has focused for 10 years on artistic discourses
in Latin America, now wants to open up
a new dialogue with the Arab world. The
seminar was held in the Casa
Encendida in Madrid, a public centre for
avant-garde art.
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Viewpoints of
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Casa Árabe’s film programme adopted
the name Viewpoints - from the Arabic
word Nadharat; it presented two seasons
in 2007 produced entirely by the institution itself. The first season was Creation
beneath the bombs: Palestine, Iraq and
Lebanon, curated by the Lebanese Laila
Hotait. These included more than 30
films made in formats ranging from full
length features shot on 35mm film to
shorts produced on digital video,
demonstrating the variety of conditions
in which producers from these three
countries work. The season illustrated
how limitations imposed by a context of
war can be overcome today thanks to the
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Viewpoints
revolution in information and the culture
of new technologies: this aspect is particularly important with creative work produced in Arab countries.
Arts Circle in Madrid, and the Madrid
Image Centre, the Filmotheque of
Andalusia in Granada and Cordoba, and
the NGO Civesmundi-Festival Sinima in
Soria.
Oday Rasheed, Iraqui director
We started up a large number of important collaborations with film festivals
during 2007. We worked with the Festival
of Southern Cinema in Granada, the Film
in Movement section of the San
Sebastian Film Festival, and the
International Festival of the Animated
Image “Animadrid”, with its “Window on
Development” dedicated in 2007 to North
Africa. We also participated in Soria’s
Sinima Festival, the Amal 07 Festival, the
International Festival of Euro-Arab
Cinema in Santiago de Compostela and
the new Festival of Spanish Cinema developed in the Moroccan city of Tangier.
Posters designed by Rana Salam for Madrid’s White Night
In Panorama of contemporary Arab documentary cinema, we highlighted another
basic aspect of current Arab cinema: the
growing importance of documentary
films at the expense of fiction films. The
curator of the season, Basel Ramsis,
suggests the reason for this could be the
economic crisis experienced by many
Arab countries, and the lack of resources
for costly productions; or the need to
show the reality that these filmmakers
offer in contrast to distorted images. For
whatever reason, documentary work is
enjoying an excellent moment in today’s
Arab world.
Apart from these film cycles, we showed
other films to accompany specific events,
such as the Palestinian film Rana’s
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181. At the inauguration of Casa Árabe in
January 2007, we showed four recent, so
far little known, fiction films: Days of Glory,
The great journey, The last man and The
sleeping child.
Launching the Viewpoints programme
with these film seasons offered the enormous advantage of their being able to
visit different localities, and satisfy an
important demand for “peripheral” cinema rarely seen via normal channels of
film distribution. Before we had our own
headquarters, we were greatly helped in
this effort by institutions like the Fine
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Concert organised by Casa Árabe
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Voices of
Casa Árabe
Voices of Casa Árabe (from the Arabic
word Aswat) is the seal that identifies
all the activities relating to our programmes of music and performing
arts. The first concert, held in Madrid’s
Zarzuela Theatre, introduced our new
institution to the public of the Spanish
capital. It included a programme that
accurately reflected the kind of work
we seek to promote. The music of the
Tunisian lutenist Anouar Brahem is the
perfect expression of the musical
paradox characterising many artists
from the Arab world: it explores in
detail all the possibilities of fusion,
“breaking down frontiers without for
one moment losing aesthetic standards forged throughout the ages, and
showing a deep respect for tradition” –
to quote from the concert’s programme
notes. The other performer, the
Anouar Brahem and Amal Murkus
Voices
Palestinian singer Amal Murkus, embodied the tradition of many Arab singers
inspired by folklore and traditional
poetry, who simultaneously open the
doors to the influence of wider
Mediterranean airs.
Poster for a concert in Cordoba
Casa Árabe participated in the celebrations of the National Music Day, on 21
June 2007: the Egyptian musician
Fathy Salama and his group Sharkiat
organised a concert at the Fine Arts
Circle in Madrid that gave a magnificent performance of oriental jazz. The
Cordoba Guitar Festival included in its
2007 programme its first collaboration
with Casa Árabe, with the participation
of the musician Simon Shaheen &
Qantara, of Palestinian origin. Shaheen
is a master of an uninhibited mix of traditional Arab music, western classical
music and Latin American rhythms and
melodies. The concert included several
numbers from his acclaimed Blue
Flame album.
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Poster for a concert in Bilbao
Musicians of Sharkiat, who performed with Fathy Salama
Desordances 3
Casa Árabe organised a tour of the
Moroccan groups Darga and H-Kayne in
September, entitled “Today’s Music of
Morocco”. Audiences in San Sebastian,
Huesca and Bilbao enjoyed the best and
most representative forms of hip-hop from
our neighbouring North African country.
Around the same time, coinciding with the
Fiestas of Mercè, Casa Árabe started working jointly with Barcelona Town Hall. The
city organised the Mediterranean Forum for
Cultural Cooperation, and Casa Árabe
sponsored the participation of various
Moroccan groups: Karim Ziad & Ifrikya,
Ahidous M’goun and Mouloud el Maskaoui.
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that reflected the investigative work
carried out by the company’s director.
The show demonstrated the existence of
common body languages in the two diametrically opposed traditions of breakdance and the hypnotic whirling of
Egyptian dervishes.
Desordances 3
The Dani Pannullo dance company
mounted a spectacular production of
the Hispano-Egyptian stage show
Desordances 3 in late autumn as part of
our dance programme. The production
held its premiere in the Cairo Opera
house just days previously, an honour
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Conference on Ramadan
The audience at one of the concerts
The Moroccan group Darga
The Algerian musician Idir
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Festival of Ramadan Nights
Farida & Iraqi Maqam Ensemble
Festival of Ramadan
Nights
Four moments from Ramadan Nights
Idir in performance
In the last days of the month of Ramadan,
Casa Árabe launched an initiative it hopes
to repeat and consolidate in coming
years: the Festival of Ramadan Nights.
Four musical evenings took place in
Madrid’s Lavapiés quarter – where many
Arab and Muslim people live – from 9 to
13 October, with performances from Idir,
Farida & Iraqi Maqam Ensemble, Rasha
and Darga, in addition to films and workshops for young people. The event was
organised jointly with the Fabricantes de
Ideas cultural association and the Spanish
Agency of International Cooperation for
Development. A tent installed for the
occasion in the Casino de la Reina park
received more than 11,000 people during
the four-day festival, in an emotional
atmosphere of harmony and mutual respect. With Ramadan Nights, Casa Árabe
wanted to show that this originally religious festival is also a social and cultural
celebration enjoyed in many Islamic
countries as an exceptional break from
routine. It is a time when the focus is on
the public space of the streets, favouring
harmonious social interchange. Madrid
town hall, and numerous neighbourhood
bodies and associations, such as La
Corrala Neighbours Association, gave
crucial support that made this fiesta a
neighbourhood celebration.
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AND ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
EDUCATIONAL
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Casa Árabe proposes to establish a
series of educational activities consistent with the institution’s objectives: to
help Spanish society become more
knowledgeable about the realities of
the Arab world, to influence Spain’s
perceptions of these countries and
their peoples, and to build the basis for
new forms of relations among citizens
and societies. Casa Árabe is gradually
opening up several fields of activity to
pursue these matters.
Promotion of Arab language
learning
Despite being the only European country
that has a frontier with an Arab country,
the level of knowledge of the Arabic language in Spain is insufficient. Casa
Árabe plans to create its own Arabic
Language Centre in 2008, to offer classes in modern standard Arabic and
Moroccan dialect. We aim to enable
people to start learning the language,
and its dialect variations, and to perfect
it. In the medium term we envisage teaching Arabic to professionals with specific needs, such as social workers,
diplomats and volunteers. Casa Árabe
systematised in its first year the range
of Arab language teaching available in
Spain, and the availability of Arab language teaching for foreigners in Arab
countries.
Activities with teachers
Casa Árabe seeks to develop a permanent joint activity with teachers and
voluntary educators. We established contacts with Support Centres for Teachers,
the Madrid Volunteers School, the Public
School of Juvenile Education and
Animation, public libraries, and various
youth groups and cultural associations
throughout Spain.
Activities with professional
bodies
Casa Árabe is shortly to collaborate with
professional bodies, such as schools and
professional associations, which need
support in their educational programmes,
particularly relating to Arab matters, or
multiculturalism.
Infant educational activities
Educational and Academic Programmes
Activities designed for children
Throughout 2007 we carried out various activities designed specifically for an infant
audience – storytelling, calligraphy,
Mediterranean dances, animation and drawing – focused on the Madrid Book Fair, the
Festival of Ramadan Nights in Madrid, and in
several schools in the greater Madrid region.
Educational Activities aimed at
the general public
Casa Árabe prepared a series of educational proposals including conferences and
workshops, aimed at the general public.
Their purpose was to enable people to
become more familiar with the diversity of
conditions in Arab countries, their history,
current political and social situation, and
their artistic manifestations. Our first experience in this field was a series of conferences on the Maghreb organised jointly with
the Volunteers’ School in Madrid.
Production of educational
materials
We organised the exhibition “Maghreb, the
Arab West”, of 60 photographs accompanied by short texts about North Africa, focusing on three ideas: closeness, diversity and
internal dynamism. The exhibition was
aimed at cultural and educational centres,
and centres and associations of the elderly.
National University of Distance Education,
the International Menéndez Pelayo
University, the Complutense University of
Madrid, the University of Cordoba, Rovira i
Virgili University and the Diplomatic
School. We participated in, or jointly organised, several higher education activities
with these institutions.
Casa Árabe ran a module on the Maghreb
and the Middle East for the Master’s
degree in International Relations at the
Diplomatic School. We offered and ran the
course “Building interculturalism: the
Muslim presence in Europe” jointly with the
University of Cordoba.
We also publicised the availability of summer courses on the Arab world. We offered
a seminar on “Turkey on the threshold of
Europe”, run by Gema Martín Muñoz and
Miguel Ángel Aguilar, as one of the summer courses at the Complutense
University of Madrid at El Escorial in 2007.
We organised a course on “Young Muslims
in Europe and Islamic countries,” led by
Gema Martín Muñoz and Asef Bayat, as
part of the International Menéndez Pelayo
University summer schools in the
Magdalena Palace in Santander.
A course at UIMP
Casa Árabe is a member of the Spanish
network of the Anna Lindh Euro
Mediterranean Foundation for Dialogue
between Cultures.
Higher education
We started joint activities with universities
and higher education centres, such as the
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Casa Árabe provides the resources to
follow and analyse important social and
political events in the Arab and Islamic
world, and to make today’s important
political figures better known. We have
developed two instruments to help in this
task: the Sociopolitical Watchtower and
Records of Memory.
The Sociopolitical
Watchtower
This is an online magazine that analyses
the situation in the Arabic-Islamic world. It
tracks electoral processes, presents profiles of prominent personalities, and news
about current events, compiles a database
of doctoral theses produced in Spain and
Latin America, and has links to research
centres throughout the Arab and Islamic
world.
We designed and created the format and
contents of our online magazine in 2007.
The first number is ready to launch in electronic form, and we plan to publish a paper
version later on. It will appear bimonthly,
although we envisage providing early analysis and comment about current events,
which need not wait for the next scheduled
magazine.
The publication Sociopolitical Watchtower of Casa Árabe
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Sociopolitical Observatory
Records of Memory
al-Sayyed Muhammad Hasan al-Amin
This project rescues the individual Arab
or Muslim as a historical protagonist, as
maker of his or her own history. It contrasts with numerous analyses of social,
historical and sociological situations in
which the individual is obscured, and
with the bulk of information about Arab
and Islamic societies where masses
rather than individuals are increasingly
present. Casa Árabe established the idea
in its main aims: to deepen social knowledge about each country and the
region as a whole, and publicise Arab
and Muslim realities. We seek to do this
in a series of in-depth interviews, rich in
human detail in contrast to the usual type
of journalistic interview. These interviews
rescue individual memories to construct
a collective memory of the societies
under consideration.
The result is a recording of about an hour,
in which the interviewee describes his or
her life history and relationship with the
history of the society to which he or she
belongs. This also provides an insight into
the society´s history that some researchers
may wish to use as a source. The interview
forms a record that may be consulted by
any person who is interested in the narrator in question, or in their society.
We have conducted three interviews for
Records of Memory so far. The first, with the
Saad al-Din al-Othmani
To do this, we choose an interviewee or
narrator according to a basic parameter:
that the person has a long life experience
intimately bound to the future of his or her
country. Their links may be political, or cultural, economic, philosophical, social or
artistic, or a combination of these. They are
outstanding figures who through their
reminiscences become more human, and
help the listener attain a better understanding. The interview covers childhood
memories, family circumstances in which
they grow up, early influences, books,
school life, youth, academic studies and
professional career. Further, these are personalities with complex trajectories, with a
public and private life, who have made
important contributions in several fields,
usually both on the theoretical level and in
practice.
Lebanese Shia thinker, politician and religious man al-Sayyed Muhammad Hasan alAmin, took place in Madrid on 18 January
2007. The second was with the politician
Saad al-Din al-Othmani, leader of Morocco’s
Islamist Justice and Development Party, on
4 July 2007. And the third was with the
Egyptian thinker Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, in
Madrid on 21 September 2007. The resultant material is stored in Casa Árabe’s
Documentation Centre and Media Library,
and is freely available for consultation.
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SOCIOECONOMIC FORUM
Casa
Árabe
06/07
One of Casa Árabe’s main purposes is to
promote and encourage economic and business relations between Spain and Arab
countries, and to this end we created the
Socioeconomic Forum as one of our main
lines of activity.
Casa Árabe’s Socioeconomic Forum is organised around two main principles. Firstly, to
promote and analyse information about the
situation, dynamics and trends in Arab economies and societies, and Hispano-Arab
economic relations. We propose to contribute to a deeper knowledge of our respective
economies and societies and their forms of
interaction, to facilitate and strengthen cooperation and development. We believe this
enrichment of public debate may break down
stereotypes, and challenge the kinds of analysis that seek to explain the economic, social
and political situation and future of these
countries on the basis of purely cultural or religious criteria. The second aim is to promote
and support business relations, trade and
investment between Spain and Arab countries, with the similar purpose of strengthening the mutual development of our societies.
Both these aims are expressed in the
Socioeconomic Observatory and the
Business Forum, which are interrelated, as
many of their activities demonstrate. But the
aims are particularly reflected in their main
periodical publication, Casa Árabe’s Boletín
de economía y negocios (Economic and
Business Bulletin). This is a bimonthly bulle-
Presentation of the Hispano-Moroccan International
Arbitration Court.
Socioeconomic Forum
tin of current affairs and analysis of economic and business relations between Spain
and Arab countries, and the development of
Arab economies. It is directed at businesspeople and employees in organisations and
institutions dealing with the Arab world, and
is published in two formats: paper, 16
pages, 700 copies, and digital, HTML and
PDF.
The activities of Casa Árabe’s Socioeconomic
Forum began with the presentation of the
Hispano-Moroccan International Arbitration
Court through the court’s Regulation and
Ordinance Process which Casa Árabe published in Spanish and French. The event took
place at the College of Lawyers in Madrid on
6 February, and accompanied the presentation of the first Note of Casa Árabe’s
Socioeconomic Forum, on trade and investment between Spain and Morocco.
Notes of the Socioeconomic Forum take
the form of a periodical publication about
current issues. The Notes have a similar aim
to Casa Árabe’s Tribunes and seek to provide
documentation to accompany them. We have
published six Notes on subjects such as
“Spain and Morocco, trade and investments”,
and “Water and conflict in the Arab world.”
Within the Forum’s activities we have presented international reports of socioeconomic
relevance to Arab countries, Spain and
Europe, and organised several conferencedebates. The first report, “Competitiveness in
the Arab World 2007”, carried out by the
World Economic Forum, was presented at
the headquarters of Promomadrid on 14
June. The report’s two authors, Thierry
Geiger and Sofiane Khatib, were present. A
translated summary of the report in Spanish
was published in Documents of Casa Árabe.
To mark Morocco’s general elections, Casa
Árabe organised the visit to Madrid of Saad
al-Din al-Othmani, Secretary General of
Morocco’s Justice and Development Party
(PJD), to participate in an event on Economic
Programmes of Moroccan Parties. He met
Spanish business people, and participated in
a video conference in the National University
of Distance Education in Madrid on “The
Economic programme of the Justice and
Development Party”.
Conference-debates were organised to discuss poverty in the Maghreb and Mashrek
countries of Africa. The economist and historian Sophie Bessis talked about
“Poverty/poverties in the Maghreb” and
Riad Khoury, specialist in matters of social
security, poverty, employment and gender,
analysed three case studies of fighting
poverty and unemployment in Jordan.
Another conference-debate took place to
coincide with the presentation of the book:
La competencia entre la horticultura intensiva de Marruecos y de España (Competition
between intensive horticulture in Morocco
and Spain), by José Angel Aznar, in Agadir
on 7 December.
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PUBLICATIONS
Casa
Árabe
06/07
Publications
Casa Árabe produced several types of publications, on paper and online, throughout
2007.
In addition to several one-off publications,
we regularly published Documents of Casa
Árabe, translations of international reports,
Working Papers, research or analysis monographs, the Economic and Business Bulletin
– a publication of commercial and business
interest – and Notes of the Socioeconomic
Forum, on matters of general interest.
All our publications are free and, as far as
possible, also available in electronic format
through Casa Árabe’s website.
Publications
PUBLICATIONS ON PAPER (WITH OR WITHOUT A DIGITAL VERSION)
SERIES (TYPE)
TITLE (AUTHOR)
FORMAT
Casa Árabe Documents
(serial monograph)
Musulmanes en la Unión Europea:
discriminación e islamofobia
Paper/digital (PDF)
(serial monograph)
Análisis de la competitividad en el
mundo árabe: estrategias para mantener la dinámica de crecimiento
Paper/digital (PDF)
(serial monograph)
Palestina 181. 60 años después.
Recopilación de documentos de
las Naciones Unidas sobre la
cuestión palestina
Paper/digital (PDF)
Casa Árabe Working Papers
(serial monograph)
Irán: fortalezas y debilidades de
una potencia regional
(Mohammad-Reza Djalili)
Paper/digital (PDF)
(serial monograph)
La escolarización en el Magreb: de Paper/digital (PDF)
la construcción a la consolidación
de los sistemas educativos
(Abdeljalil Akkari)
(serial monograph)
Islamismo y política económica en Paper/digital (PDF)
Marruecos (Gonzalo Escribano)
Notes of the Socioeconomic
Forum (periodical)
España-Marruecos: comercio e
inversiones
Paper/digital (PDF)
Forum (periodical)
Gaza y Cisjordania: colapso
socioeconómico. Hechos y cifras
Paper/digital (PDF)
Forum (periodical)
Líbano 2006: un mes de guerra,
dos años perdidos
Paper/digital (PDF)
Casa Árabe Economic and
Business Bulletin (periodical)
Paper/digital (PDF
and HTML)
Non-serial (periodical)
Agenda 2007
Paper
Reglamento y ordenanza procesal/Règlement et ordonnance de
Procédure (Corte Internacional
Hispano-Marroquí de Arbitraje)
Paper/digital (PDF)
Mil y un libros para asomarse al
mundo árabe. Guía de lectura
Paper/digital (PDF)
Osama Esid. Juego de representa- Paper
ciones; el experimento egipcio
Said Messari. Reflexiones especu- Paper
lares. Obra Gráfica, instalación,
pintura
Fondos documentales en archivos Paper
españoles sobre la organización de
la justicia en el Protectorado español en Marruecos (1912-1956).
(guía de situación y contenido)
(María Rosa de Madariaga)
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Árabe
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Publications
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EXCLUSIVELY ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS
SERIES (TYPE)
TITLE (AUTHOR)
Economic and Business Bulletin
Alerts… (periodical)
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FORMAT
Digital (HTML)
Casa Árabe Texts
(serial monograph)
La letra y el espíritu
(Ibrahim al-Koni)
Digital (PDF)
Casa Árabe Texts
(serial monograph)
El sueño del desierto en la
literatura magrebí
(Nizar Tajditi)
Digital (PDF)
Casa Árabe Texts
(serial monograph)
Apuntes sobre el universo literario
en Timbuktu y la Curva del Níger
(Vicente Millán)
Digital (PDF)
Casa Árabe Texts
(serial monograph)
África en la globalización neoliberal: verdades y contraverdades
(Mbuyi Kabunda)
Digital (PDF)
Casa Árabe Texts
(serial monograph)
África: voces frente a la globalización / L'Afrique: des voix face à la
mondialisation
(Jean-Claude Katende)
Digital (PDF)
Casa Árabe Texts
(serial monograph)
Barça o barzakh: migración clandestina senegalesa hacia España,
entre el Sahara Occidental y el
océano Atlántico / Barça ou barzakh : La migration clandestine
sénégalaise vers l'Espagne entre
le Sahara Occidental et l'Océan
atlantique (Cheikh Oumar Ba)
Digital (PDF)
Casa Árabe Texts
(serial monograph)
Migración, derechos humanos y
contexto magrebí / Migration,
droits humains et contexte maghrébin (Habib Belkouch)
Digital (PDF)
Casa Árabe Texts
(serial monograph)
La crisis de Darfur: causas y
perspectivas de futuro
(Haydar Ibrahim)
Digital (PDF)
Casa Árabe Texts
(serial monograph)
Anatomía de la crisis política en
Palestina (Ilan Halevi)
Digital (PDF)
Casa Árabe Texts
(serial monograph)
La modernización de Marruecos:
la palabra y el objeto / La modernisation du Maroc: le mot et la
chose (Abdallah Laroui)
Digital (PDF)
Casa Árabe Texts
(serial monograph)
La evolución del concepto de
yihad en el pensamiento islámico
(Maher Al-Charif)
Digital (PDF)
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The International Institute of Arab and
Muslim World Studies (IEAM) forms Casa
Árabe’s centre for research and forecasting. A specialist interdisciplinary research
team works at the centre, which is based
in Cordoba. The group forms a central
core of various theme-based networks
that operate in Europe and Arab countries.
The IEAM develops its research projects
by directing a network of researchers who
work in national and international universities and academic organisations.
The research priorities within Casa Árabe’s
overall aims have started to take shape
through research projects, seminars, summer courses, conferences and participation in postgraduate study programmes.
These research lines are:
n Political reforms and socioeconomic
trends in Arab countries
n Islamisms in their contexts
n The social situation of Arab and Muslim
women
n Young people, social change and immi-
gration in Arab and Muslim societies.
n Islam in Spain and Europe
The IEAM contains the Documentation
Centre (CdD), a basic support for its twin
role as tool for research and information.
The CdD, which will open to the public
from next year, will provide access to the
principal specialist databases in various
disciplines related to the Arab and Muslim
world currently available in the academic
field. The Documentation Centre is also
assembling its own collection of documents, giving priority to acquiring digital
Meeting of a research group
AND MUSLIM WORLD STUDIES
THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARAB
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Árabe
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The International Institute of Arab and Muslim World Studies
materials, CD-roms and electronic resources, including periodicals and monographs.
This preliminary research will enable
researchers to analyse the constitutive
elements of the demographic transition
experienced in the Arab world in recent
decades. It will focus on evaluating factors
of change in the model of the traditional
family, and the consequences this entails
for the role of women in Arab societies. A
multidisciplinary team of researchers
from Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia,
Saudi Arabia, Palestine and Syria is carrying out this study.
Another new research project, Islamic
movements in Europe, is coordinated by
Frank Peter and Rafael Ortega. The study
will produce a Handbook on Islamic movements and institutions in Europe, which will
provide highly specialised academic information about Islamism and Islamic movements. The Handbook will serve members
of the general public who have a personal
interest in the subject, in addition to academics and professionals, such as journalists, political and social managers, reli-
Presentation of the Reports on
Islamophobia
The IEAM has launched a number of research projects. They include Demography
and family structures: from the patriarchal
family to the nuclear family, directed by
Sophie Bessis and Gema Martín Muñoz.
The launch of this research programme on
the subject of women in the Arab world
underlines Casa Árabe’s interest in this
question, one of the most important issues
that this large section of the world has to
confront. It is also one of the most debated
issues in the region.
Course at Cordoba University
The Documentation Centre has made contacts with professional operations in its
specialist area since it was launched in
September 2007, and contributed to the
formation of a network of libraries and
documentation centres specialising in the
Arab and Mediterranean world. These
include the future Andalusian Network of
Specialised Documentation Centres and
Libraries, which is being developed by the
Andalusian Regional Government. The
CdD is also a member of the Spanish
Society of Scientific Documentation
(Sedic).
gious leaders and academics of other disciplines. Specialists in various European
countries who have carried out extensive
field studies are contributing to this work.
They hope to contextualise and broaden
the debate over the use, and problems that
result, of the ideologisation of concepts
such as “Islamic”, “fundamentalist”,
“Islamist”, “radical” and “extremist”.
In this regard, the IEAM presented and
published two Reports on Islamophobia in
Europe carried out in December 2006 by
the European Observatory on Racism and
Xenophobia (EUMC). A Spanish translation of a summary of both reports was presented at the meeting. The reports were
also presented jointly with the European
Mediterranean
Institute
IEMed
in
Barcelona on 3 May.
The IEAM organised a series of academic
events jointly with other university institutions, in addition to the scientific meetings
and internal workshops organised in 2007,
as part of the projects described above.
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Visit of the UAE Ministers of
Foreign Affairs and Culture to
the Queen Sofia Museum
Twinning ceremony between
Madrid and Abu Dhabi
Rosa Aguilar, Gema Martín
Muñoz and Sheikha Haya
Rashed Al Khalifa
Esperanza Aguirre receives
Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa
Gema Martín Muñoz with the
Yemeni Minister of Foreign
Affairs
INSTRUMENT OF PUBLIC DIPLOMACY
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Instrument of Public Diplomacy
Casa Árabe invited Sheikha Haya Rashed Al
Khalifa, president of the sixty-first session of
the United Nations General Assembly, to visit
Spain and hold several institutional meetings.
Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa, who served
until June 2007, attended an audience with
HM King Juan Carlos. She also met political
leaders and representatives of the main institutions in Spain: the First Deputy Prime
Minister, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and
Cooperation, the Speaker of the Senate
(Upper House of Parliament), the President of
the Regional Government of Madrid, the
Mayor of Madrid and the Mayor of Cordoba.
She gave a public address in the Senate entitled “Towards a culture of gender equality in
the 21st century,” that was chaired by the
Secretary of State for Cooperation, Leire
Pajín.
Other delegations who visited Casa Árabe’s
headquarters in Madrid and Cordoba
included a group of students from the
Sorbonne University in Dubai; and a group
of Saudi regional councillors for whom
Casa Árabe organised, jointly with the Club
of Madrid, a working visit in Cordoba with
representatives of the city’s municipal
government.
Our Director General made several official
visits, to the United Arab Emirates, Algeria,
Kuwait, Oman and Yemen, to present Casa
Árabe. She had the opportunity to meet
authorities in those countries, and to establish collaborative alliances with political,
cultural and academic institutions. She
also visited the Secretary General of the
League of Arab States, Amr Musa, in the
league’s headquarters in Cairo.
Visit of Saudi municipal councillors
to Cordoba
During the official visit of the President of
the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Pervez
Musharraf, to Spain in April, Casa Árabe
organised a series of meetings for him in
Cordoba. President Musharraf met the
President of the Andalusian Regional
Government and the Mayor of Cordoba,
both of whom are Vice Presidents of Casa
Árabe. We also organised jointly with
Cordoba University a conference addressed by the Pakistani head of state on
“Dialogue and cooperation between civilisations as an instrument for harmonious
relations between the Muslim world and
the West.”
A delegation headed by the Minister of
Crafts of the Sultanate of Oman visited
Cordoba and met various representatives
of companies and business organisations
in the crafts sector. Casa Árabe similarly
received the Saudi Arabian Culture
Minister, and the former president of
Mauritania, Ely Ould Muhammad Vall.
Visit of the President of Pakistan to
Cordoba
Casa Árabe aims to deepen and encourage mutual relations and develop common
interests by acting as an instrument of
public diplomacy that contributes to
Spain’s foreign policy towards Arab countries. Accordingly, Casa Árabe received
visits from dignitaries and important figures in the Arab and Muslim world; the
director general made several official visits
to introduce Casa Árabe.
Casa Árabe organised a private visit for the
United Arab Emirates Ministers of Foreign
Affairs, HRH Sheikh Abdala Bin Zayed Al
Nahayan, and Culture, HE Abdelrahman
Mohamed Al Awais, to Madrid’s Queen Sofia
Museum for contemporary art. Both ministers had expressed interest in the development of culture and museums in our country,
and the visit enabled them to obtain first
hand knowledge about the museum.
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The Communications Office is the department responsible for publicising Casa
Árabe’s activities to the general public
and the media. It also contributes greatly
to creating the image of the institution,
and publicising its identity as a reference
point for everything related to Arab and
Islamic matters.
The department adopts various initiatives
according to the nature of each activity undertaken, and the specific audience addressed,
to project the broadest knowledge possible of
the institution itself and its programme of
activities.
The Communications Office uses principally
our website - www.casaarabe-ieam.es to promote its activities to the general
public, in addition to the digital bulletin
Novedades de Casa Árabe (Casa Árabe
News)
All the institution’s activities, and references to other activities in which Casa Árabe
jointly participates, appear on our website.
The website was launched in its present
form in June 2007 and presents material in
a very visual and simple way. We also list
Casa Árabe’s website
COMMUNICATION AND VIRTUAL SPACE
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Árabe
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Communication and Virtual Space
activities related to the Arab and Muslim
world organised by other institutions.
Casa Árabe’s website is often the first
point of contact people and opinion
makers have with the institution, so we
update the website daily. It received nearly
36,000 visits (more than 20,000 individual
users) in the second half of 2007, with
around 160,000 pages visited.
Casa Árabe’s website offers conference
texts and video-conferences recorded in
Tribunes, which are presented shortly after
the events, along with information about
our activities. This means those interested
in the subject who were unable to attend a
particular event can access the material at
any moment and from anywhere in the
world, by downloading audio, video and
text files.
scheduled for the week ahead, and we
regularly refresh the text, and the audio
and video files.
Alongside its work for the public at large,
the Communications Office undertakes
actions specifically aimed at the media.
The press office produces specific press
releases for every activity, and sends them
to journalists according to their specialist
area. It also arranges interviews with invited speakers, and offers media support on
request. The aim is to consolidate Casa
Árabe in the media as a source of information and analysis on all political social, economic and cultural matters related to the
Arab and Muslim world.
Further, Casa Árabe makes most of its
publications available to the public in digital form through the website, at no charge.
Casa Árabe’s website, and an interview
We publish a weekly news bulletin
(Novedades de Casa Árabe) to keep the
public informed about all the activities
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DYNAMICS OF INSTITUTIONAL
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06/07
Casa Árabe is committed to cooperating
with other institutions, as well as developing its own programmes and activities, to
strengthen joint work between institutions.
In Spain we have developed programmes
jointly with the IEMed in Barcelona, the
Cidob, the UNED, the Carolina Foundation,
the Filmotheque in Madrid and Andalusia,
the Madrid Book Fair, the Fine Arts Circle,
the Great Theatre of Cordoba, the University
of Cordoba, the Madinat Al Zahra archaeological site, the Legado Andalusi
Foundation, the Ministry of Culture, the
Madrid Lawyers’ College, the Spanish
Supreme Court, the Averroes Committee,
the Casa Encendida arts centre in Madrid,
the Three Cultures Foundation in Seville, the
Club of Madrid, the Alfons Comins
Foundation, the National Library and the
film festivals of Tangiers, the South, Tarifa
and San Sebastian.
Internationally, Casa Árabe organised activities with the UNDP’s Middle East programme, with the World Economic Forum, the
European Observatory against Racism and
Xenophobia (currently the European
Fundamental Rights Agency), with the Office
for Democratic Institutions and Human
Rights (ODIHR), with the International
Institute for The Study of Islam in the
Modern World (ISIM) and with the French
Near East Institute (IFPO) in Damascus.
During the Spanish presidency of the
Organisation for Security and Cooperation in
Europe, OSCE, Cordoba hosted a conference on “Intolerance and discrimination against
Muslims”, in which Casa Árabe collaborated
in defining the programme, and actively participated in organising the conference.
In Arab countries, we participated in the
international conference on “The mutual
perception of Europe and the Arab world
from 1450 to the present”, organised by the
King Faisal Foundation in Riyad. The event
was organised to coincide with the summit
meeting of European Foreign Affairs ministers and the Gulf Cooperation Council,
during Germany’s term as EU president.
We participated, jointly with Spain’s
Supreme Court, in the celebrations of the
50th anniversary of Morocco’s Supreme
Court, held in Rabat.
Dynamics of Institutional Collaboration
To mark the occasion, we published a book
compiled by the historian María Rosa de
Madariaga, Fondos documentales en archivos españoles sobre la organización de la
justicia en el protectorado español en
Marruecos (Documentary sources in Spanish
archives on the organisation of justice in the
Spanish protectorate in Morocco). The book,
in Arabic and Spanish, was presented at the
event.
In Latin America, we organised the first
IberoAmerican conference on contemporary
North African and Middle Eastern studies,
held in Buenos Aires. The event marked the
launch of our programme on the Arab presence in Latin American countries, and was organised with the Argentine International
Relations Council, CARI, and the Centre of
Contemporary Middle East Studies, CEMOC.
To complement and strengthen the dynamics of cooperation, Casa Árabe signed a
series of Covenants with the following
organisations and institutions:
n EFE news agency
n Barcelona City Hall
n Casa Asia
n Fine Arts Circle
n Club of Madrid
n General Council of the Judicial Power
n Madrid Book Fair
n Animadrid Festival
n Araguaney Foundation
n State Society for International
Exhibitions (SEEI)
n United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP)
n Cordoba University
n National University for Distance
Education (UNED)
n Madrid Complutense University
n Tarragona Rovira i Virgili University
n International Menéndez Pelayo
University (UIMP)
n Venice Ca’Foscari University
Signing the covenant with the Supreme Court
We developed a student exchange programme in Casa Árabe jointly with international universities. We received a postgraduate student from the University of
Michigan for two months, in accordance
with an agreement with the US’s Centers for
Academic Programs Abroad. A doctoral
student from Venice University joined us for
four months through the Leonardo da Vinci
European student exchange programme.
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LIST OF ACTIVITIES
Casa
Árabe
06/07
JANUARY 2007
18
Launch of activities Madrid Voices concert: Anouar Brahem Trio Astrakan Café
and Amal Murkus
18 and 19 Launch of activities Madrid Viewpoints Cinema: four Arab films with original
soundtrack and subtitles
19
Launch of activities Madrid Arab Worlds Forum: ideas, actors, spaces (Conferences
and debates)
FEBRUARY 2007
06
Socioeconomic Forum Madrid Hispano-Moroccan Arbitration Court, Madrid
Lawyers’ College
11-25
Visitors Programme Madrid Sorbonne University of the UAE. Madrid, Cordoba,
Seville, Granada
15
Public Presentation Madrid Reports on Islamophobia by the European
Observatory of Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC)
22
Conference Madrid Political Conference and Constitution of the High Board of Trustees
26
Presentation Madrid Presentation of the documentary Rif, the forgotten history
27
Presentation Madrid Presentation by Maruja Torres of her book La amante en
guerra (The lover in war)
27
Conference-Debate Cordoba Sophie Bessis: “Women in international migrations”
28
Conference-Debate Madrid Sophie Bessis: “Poverty/Poverties in the Maghreb.
The question of human development in Maghrebi development policies”
MARCH 2007
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07
Conference-Debate Madrid Riad Al Khouri: “Poverty/Poverties in the Mashrek.
Case study of the fight against poverty in Jordan”
08
Casa Árabe’s Tribune Madrid Cycle “What present and what future for the Middle
East?” • Samir Aita: “Syria today. Medium-term perspectives in the economic and
geopolitical context of the Middle East”
16
Cordoba Inauguration of Casa Árabe in Cordoba
21
East?” • George Corm: “Economic problems of Arab countries”
22
Casa Árabe’s Tribune Barcelona George Corm: “Lebanon: symbolic space and
shock absorber of Middle East conflicts”
List of Activities
APRIL 2007
10
Casa Árabe’s Bookstand Madrid Presentation of Alaa Al-Aswani’s book.
Conference: “Creating in Egypt today”
11
Casa Árabe’s Bookstand Madrid Alaa Al-Aswani: “Conference-Debate with students”
12
Casa Árabe’s Bookstand Barcelona Alaa Al-Aswani: “Egypt through the literary
mirror”
16
Socioeconomic Forum Casa Árabe’s Economic and Business Bulletin no 1
24
Casa Árabe’s Tribune Cordoba Cycle “What present and what future for the
Middle East?” • Hala Mustafa: “Political dynamics and influence in the Middle
East”
25
East?” • Hala Mustafa : “Political dynamics and influence in the Middle East”
25-29
Course Madrid Diplomatic School – Master in Diplomacy and International Relations •
• Module “Maghreb and the Middle East”
25
Visitors Progamme Cordoba Visit of the President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf
26
Visitors programme Cordoba Conference: “Dialogue and cooperation between
civilisations as an instrument for harmonious relations between the Muslim world
and the West”
30
Socioeconomic Forum Casa Árabe’s Notes of the Socioeconomic Forum, no 1
MAY 2007
01-29
Madrid Diplomatic School • Master in Diplomacy and International Relations
• Module “Maghreb and the Middle East”
01-31
Research Project Documentary sources: Justice in the Spanish Protectorate
zone of Morocco
03
Public presentation Barcelona Reports on Islamophobia by the European
Observatory on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC)
12-14
Plenary meeting Cordoba “Dialogue on democratic values in the Arab World”,
Club of Madrid
16
Casa Árabe’s Tribune Barcelona Cycle “What present and what future for the Middle
East?” • Mohammad Reza-Djalili: “Iran, strengths and weaknesses of a regional power”
16
Casa Árabe’s Bookstand Madrid Presentation of the book Los retos de la educación básica en los países del Mediterráneo Sur, (Challenges of basic education
in Southern Mediterranean countries), L. Vidal with A. Akkari
17
East?” • Mohammad Reza-Djalili: “Iran at the crossroads: internal dynamics and
foreign policy”
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17
Casa Árabe’s Bookstand Madrid Conference-Debate A. Akkari and L. Vidal
“Challenges of basic education in Arab Mediterranean countries. National policies
and the role of international cooperation”
21
Casa Árabe’s Bookstand Madrid Presentation of books about T. E. Lawrence,
archaeologist and soldier • Lawrence de Arabia (Lawrence of Arabia) by Lowell Thomas
• Ciudades muertas y hombres vivos (Dead cities and live men) by C. Leonard Woolley
22-26/06 Viewpoints. Cinema Madrid, Cordoba and Granada Cycle: Creation beneath
the bombs: contemporary audiovisual production in Palestine, Iraq and Lebanon
23
Casa Árabe’s Bookstand Madrid Presentation of the book El ala radical del Islam.
El islam político, realidad y ficción (Islam’s radical wing. Political Islam, reality and
fiction), Waleed Saleh Alkhalifa
25-10/06 Madrid Madrid Book Fair
31-08/06 Education Collado Villalba (Madrid) Multicultural educational activities in primary
schools
JUNE 2007
01-08
Education Collado Villalba (Madrid) Multicultural educational activities in primary
schools
01-26
Viewpoints. Cinema Madrid, Cordoba and Granada Cycle: Creation beneath
the bombs: contemporary audiovisual production in Palestine, Iraq and Lebanon
01-10
Madrid Madrid Book Fair
01
Casa Árabe’s Tribune Madrid Abdallah Laroui: “The modernisation of Morocco”
01-06
Visitors Programme Seville, Cordoba, Madrid Official visit of Sheikha Rashed Al
Khalifa, president of the UN General Assembly • Madrid Conference “Towards a
culture of gender equality in the 21st century”
06
Conference-debate Madrid Shayj Hisham Kabbani, “Sufism in Islam today”
07-22
Photography exhibition and Tribune Madrid Photography exhibition Voices of Iraq,
Tribune: Cycle “What present and what future for the Middle East?” • Barcelona
Round tables and conferences Joost Hiltermann
11-29
Photography exhibition Cordoba Osama Esid. The play of representations. The
Egyptian experiment
14
Presentation in Spain Madrid World Economic Forum’s Report Competitiveness
in the Arab World 2007
15
18
Madrid Seminar: “Property development in Morocco”
22-21/07 Exhibition Madrid Said Messari Meditative Reflections
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22
Voices. Concert Madrid Fathy Salama and Sharkiat in concert
26
Casa Árabe’s Bookstand Cordoba Presentation of the book Somalia, clanes,
Islam y terrorismo internacional (Somalia, clans, Islam and international terrorism),
Ignacio Gutiérrez de Terán
28
Casa Árabe’s Bookstand Malaga Presentation of the book Hamás. La marcha
hacia el poder (Hamas. The road to power), Carmen López Alonso
JULY 2007
01-21
Exhibition Madrid Said Messari Meditative Reflections
01-30
Research Research project: Documentary sources: Justice in the Spanish Protectorate
zone of Morocco
03
Visitors programme Cordoba Visit of the Minister of Crafts of the Sultanate of
Oman
03
Voices. Concert Cordoba Simon Shaheen and Qantara in concert
04
Presentation “Moroccan parties’ economic programme”
04-06
Course Madrid Summer course at the Complutense University, “Turkey on the
Threshold of Europe”
05
Presentation Madrid Saad Eddine el Othmani (Secretary General of the Justice
and Development Party-PJD)
11
Casa Árabe’s Bookstand Madrid Presentation of the book Imagen, icono y promesa (Image, icon and promise), by Sahar Khalifeh
13
Casa Arabe’s Bookstand Malaga Presentation of the book Imagen, icono y promesa (Image, icon and promise), by Sahar Khalifeh
17
Round table Madrid “Guide to Muslim communities in Spain”
18 and 19 Visitors programme Cordoba Visit of a group of municipal councillors from Saudi
Arabia
AUGUST 2007
27-31
Course Santander Menéndez Pelayo International University. “Young Muslims in
Europe and Islamic countries”
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SEPTEMBER 2007
07
Round Table Madrid “Palestine: the fight for a sustainable future”
10
Tunisia Collaboration with the Colloquium Centre of the League of Arab States:
“Annual Euro-Mediterranean Colloquium”
14
Conference-Debate Madrid Mohamed Tozy and Mohamed El Ayadi • “Morocco’s
legislative elections 7 September: what changes and what remains”
17 and 18 Research project Madrid Demography and change in family structures in the
Arab world
17
20
Casa Árabe’s Tribune Madrid Haydar Ibrahim Ali “Sudan and the crisis of Darfur”
21
Madrid Constitution of the Advisory Board
21-25
Voices. Concert Madrid, San Sebastian and Huesca Darga and H-Kayne in concert
21-24
Festival Barcelona Collaboration in the Fiestas of la Mercè • A Mediterranean
la Mercè
22
White Night Madrid Layla: The green night; The electric garden
24
Cinema San Sebastian Participation in Cinema in Movement 3
25
Tribune Cordoba Caridad Ruiz Almodóvar and Irene Blázquez Rodríguez,
“Muslim women and family rights”
25-28
Viewpoints. Cinema Madrid Panorama of contemporary Arab documentary cinema
• Debate: “The situation of the documentary in the Arab world”
26-30
Hay Literature Festival Segovia Second edition in Spain of the Hay Literature
Festival: Samih Al-Qasim, Hanan Al-Sheikh and Murid Barghouti
26-05/10 Cinema Pozuelo de Alarcón Participation in the International Animated Image
Festival “Animadrid”, A window on development: North Africa
27
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Poetry reading Madrid Reading by the Palestinian poet Samih Al-Qasim
OCTOBER 2007
09-13
Festival of Ramadan Nights Madrid Conference of Said Kirhlani and Rafael Ortega
“Cultural aspects of Ramadan” • Voices Concert Idir, Rasha, Farida and Iraqi Maqam
Ensemble, Darga • Viewpoints Cinema Heaven’s Doors • Workshops, music, animation, calligraphy, illustration
09
Casa Árabe’s Tribune Madrid Nisreen Mazzawi, “Sexual-affective diversity and
human rights in Arab countries”
09 and 10 Conference Cordoba Collaboration in the conference of the Presidency of the
OSCE, “Intolerance and discrimination towards Muslims”
22-26
Congress Buenos Aires Participation in the First congress of contemporary studies
on the Middle East, with CEMOC-CARI
22-26
Viewpoints. Cinema Soria Collaboration with the SINIMA 2007 festival • Panorama
of Arab Documentary Cinema
22-31
Viewpoints. Cinema Santiago de Compostela Collaboration with the International
Euro-Arab Film Festival • AMAL 007
29
Conferences Cordoba Inauguration of the cycle: “Building interculturalism:
Muslim presence in Europe” • Gema Martín Muñoz and Manuel Torres Aguilar:
“Muslims in Europe, historical context and socio-political framework”
30
Conferences Cordoba Cycle: “Building interculturalism: Muslim presence in
Europe” • Rosario Ortega Ruiz: “Multiculturalism and classroom violence”
NOVEMBER 2007
02
Cinema Tangier Participation in the Tangier Festival
05
Casa Árabe’s Tribune Madrid Jean Pierre Filiu “Al-Qaeda against Islam”
05
Conferences Cordoba Cycle “Building interculturalism: Muslim presence in
Europe” • José Luis Rascón Ortega: “Multicultural models and political management of immigration in Europe: from discourse to practice”
06
Casa Árabe’s Bookstand Madrid “World trade in the face of globalisation from
8th to 18th centuries”
06
Europe” • Miguel Pajares: “Perception of immigration in Europe”
06-17/12 Viewpoints. Cinema Granada and Cordoba Panorama of Contemporary Arab
Documentary Cinema
07
Europe” • José María Ferré: “Spanish diplomacy and the Islamic world”
10
Concert Collaboration: Tunisian group El Azzifet
12
Europe” • Joan Lacomba: “Muslim immigration in Spain: Insertion and community
dynamics”
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Casa Árabe’s Tribune Madrid Inauguration of the Cycle “Economic and ecological consequences of Middle East conflicts” • Jad Isaac: “The Palestinian-Israeli
conflict, beyond geopolitics. Social and environmental impact”
13
Europe” • Elena Díez Jorge: “An intercultural reading of the Andalusi artistic
legacy”
13
Socioeconomic Forum Notes of Casa Árabe’s Socioeconomic Forum no 2
15
Casa Árabe’s Bookstand Madrid Presentation of the book by José Miguel
Puerta: La aventura del cálamo. Historia, formas y artistas de la caligrafía
árabe (The adventure of the quill. History, forms and artists of Arabic calligraphy)
17
Casa Árabe’s Bookstand Madrid Presentation of the book by Mustafa
Barghouthi Permanecer en la montaña (To remain on the mountain)
19
Europe” • Miguel Peyró García: “The Andalusi legacy from the viewpoint of contemporary Muslim identity”
20
Europe” • Amelia Sanchís Vidal: “The intercultural model seen in the context of
Law”
22
Presentation Barcelona Presentation of the report Competitiveness in the Arab
world
23
Casa Árabe’s Bookstand Madrid Presentation of the book by Yasser Abdel Latif:
Herencias de El Cairo (Inheritances of Cairo)
26
Education and publications Madrid First meeting of Casa Árabe’s Literary
Advisory Committee
26
Europe” • Iván Jiménez-Aybar: “Islam in the Spanish juridical framework”
27
27
Europe” • Ricard Zapata-Barrero: “Multiculturalism, Muslims and citizenship in
Europe”
28 and 29 International Palestine Day Madrid Palestine 181: 60 years on Tribune, Round
table, Viewpoints Cinema, Rana’s wedding by Hany Abu-Assad • Granada Voices,
Oriental Music Ensemble
27-17/12 Photography exhibition Alcobendas Photography Exhibition Voices of Iraq
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28
Visitors programme Madrid Visit of conference participants On Globalisation
28
Dance Madrid Collaboration Dani Pannullo Dance Theatre Co: Desordances 3
30
Casa Árabe’s Bookstand Madrid Presentation of the magazine Intramuros:
Literature of Morocco
DECEMBER 2007
01-17
Photography exhibition Alcobendas Photography Exhibition Voices of Iraq
03
Europe” • Mohamed al Hadbad: “The experience of cultural mediation with Muslim
communities in Granada”
03-17
Viewpoints. Cinema Granada and Cordoba Panorama of Arab documentary
cinema
04
Europe” • Round table: “The immigrant Muslim woman: critical readings of a stereotype”
04
Socioeconomic Forum Notes of Casa Árabe’s Socioeconomic Forum no 3
05
Casa Árabe’s Bookstand Madrid Presentation of the book by Tomás Alcoverro:
Espejismos de Oriente. Crónicas del Líbano, Palestina, Irán, Egipto, Siria y los principados del Golfo (Mirages of the East. Chronicles from Lebanon, Palestine, Iran,
Egypt, Syria and the Gulf principalities)
07
Socioeconomic Forum Agadir (Morocco) Presentation of the book by José
Ángel Aznar Sánchez: La competencia entre la horticultura intensiva de Marruecos
y España (Competition between intensive horticulture in Morocco and Spain)
10
Casa Árabe’s Bookstand Madrid Presentation of the book by José Tono:
Orientalismo al revés. Homenaje a Edward W. Said (Orientalism in reverse. Homage
to Edward W. Said)
11
Viewpoints. Cinema Malaga Rana’s Wedding by Hany Abu-Assad
11-14
Meeting/Exhibition Madrid Collaboration in “Turkish viewpoints: Turko-Spanish
encounters”
12
Casa Árabe’s Bookstand Cordoba Presentation of the books by Zouhir Louassini:
En brazos de Condoleezza Rice pero sin bajas (In the arms of Condoleezza Rice but
without losses) and of Badia Hadj: El velo al desnudo (The veil revealed)
12
Casa Árabe’s Tribune Madrid Cycle: “Economic and ecological consequences of
Middle Eastern conflicts” • Marwan Iskandar “Lebanon, ceaseless war and the
end of economic paradise”
13
Casa Árabe’s Tribune Santa Cruz de Tenerife Marwan Iskandar “Lebanon, ceaseless war and the end of economic paradise”
10Photography exhibition Cordoba Voices of Iraq
01/02/08
19 and 20 Conference Madrid “Representation of each other: A dialogue between Iberoamerica
and the Arab World”
20Photography exhibition Jaen Osama Esid Play of Representations. The Egyptian
20/01/08 experiment
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CASA ÁRABE’S TEAM
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Gema Martín Muñoz Director General
Sergio Vidueira Martínez Manager
Cristina Pensado Banet Executive Adviser
Tamim El Dalati Huguet Press Director
Isaías Barreñada Bajo Coordinator of Educational Programmes and Publications
Nuria Medina García Coordinator of Cultural Programmes
Elena Arigita Maza Research Coordinator (IEAM)
Olivia Orozco de la Torre Coordinator of the Socioeconomic Forum
Víctor Gutiérrez Castillo Institutional and Academic Relations (Cordoba)
Karim Hauser Askalani Latin America Programme
Jaime López Francisco Media Library Officer
Nuria Torres Santo Domingo Documentation Centre Officer
Ana Isabel González Santamaría Business Forum
Jumana Trad Yunes Seminars and Tribunes
Mariló Sancho Velázquez Tribunes and Communication (Cordoba)
Rafael Ortega Rodrigo Chief Researcher (IEAM)
Rocío Vázquez Martí Researcher (IEAM)
Amira Kedier Researcher (IEAM)
Rafael Santiago Reyes Management and Human Resources (Cordoba)
Rafael Marcos Gómez Management Associate
Daniel Gil Flores Associate Educational Programmes and Publications
Sonia Ziadi Trives Associate Cultural Programmes
Elena González González Associate Cultural Programmes
Yolanda Rodríguez Ramírez Management Assistant
Ruth Pimentel Touya Associate Press Officer
Maribel Gálvez Casado Personal Assistant Director General and General Archive
Nadia Makki Hornedo Secretary Director General’s office
Almudena Rubio Gálvez Administrative Assistant Management
Nagla Abd el Monem Administrative Assistant Forum and Education
Irene Quintana Suárez Administrative Assistant Culture and Tribunes
Rosario Carrasco Pérez Administrative Assistant (Cordoba)
Irene González Blanco Administrative Assistant
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Translated by Elizabeth Nash
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Published June 2008
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