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We participate in the round table on Islamophobia organised by the Qatari government in Doha

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Post date 6 de June de 2024
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Conferencia catarí sobre islamofobia celebrada el pasado año 2023

The Deputy Secretary of the Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies, Bárbara Boloix Gallardo, is travelling to Doha to participate in the roundtable ‘Combating Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism: New Grounds for Understanding and Policy’, a conference that will take place on 9-10 June in the Qatari capital and has been organised by the Department of Policy Planning of the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The conference will be divided into six sessions, with the first and second sessions exploring current narratives of Islamophobia and anti-Semitism and questioning how they should be addressed. The third session will address the challenges facing the media in the fight against racism.

The second day of the conference will open with the fourth session dedicated to the opportunities and perspectives of the fight against Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in history, art, society and culture, where the Deputy Secretary of the Euro-Arab Foundation, Arabist and Doctor in the History of Al-Andalus from the University of Granada, will speak.

This will be followed by the fifth session, which will address the intersection between Islamophobia and anti-Semitism from geopolitical and historical perspectives, and will end with a concluding debate that will explore new joint approaches and the way forward.

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Cultural Action Culture International Chair in Culture News

Amazigh Music & Poetry

On Thursday 9 May, the Euro-Arab Foundation presents the concert ‘Amazigh Music and Poetry’ with the groups Yuba and Band (Morocco-Germany) and Mawlid Guembri by Antonio Arias and Ramón Rodríguez (Granada).

Thursday 9 May, at 6.30 p.m., at the headquarters of the Euro-Arab Foundation.

Access to the concert by invitation, which can be requested at: euroarab2@fundea.org or by WhatsApp 635048584

This concert, presented by the group Yuba & Band (Morocco and Germany) and the group Mawlid Guembri of Antonio Arias and Ramón Rodríguez (Granada), is an invitation to return to the roots of one of the ancient musics of the Mediterranean, Amazigh music. This poetic musical proposal aims to discover the common ground between the music, melodies, songs and instruments of the two shores of the Mediterranean.

This event will feature the intervention of Hind Haik, who will recite Amazigh poetry translated into Spanish.

This activity is part of the programme of the International Chair of Amazigh Culture, created by the Euro-Arab Foundation with the sponsorship of the Dr. Leila Mezian Foundation of Morocco.

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Presentation of the book ‘La España diversa’ (Diverse Spain) by Eduardo Manzano

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Post date 7 de May de 2024
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The Euro-Arab Foundation presents the new book by Eduardo Manzano Moreno, ‘La España diversa. Keys to a plural history’, a book to understand the keys to the diverse past of Spain’s history. The event will take place on Tuesday, May 7 at 6 p.m., at the Euro-Arab Foundation’s headquarters, with a presentation by the Deputy Executive Secretary of the Euro-Arab Foundation, Bárbara Boloix Gallardo.

Presentation: Tuesday, May 7, at 18:00h, at the Euro-Arab Foundation’s headquarters.

Published by Critica, the history of Spain is the history of a changing past, paradoxical and inaccessible to simplification, whose richness and complexity recovers its centrality in this book. Faced with interested essentialist readings and ideological battles for the narrative that abound today, Eduardo Manzano proposes a passionate and exciting journey to rediscover this legacy in the form of a mosaic of identities, cultures, territories, languages and civilisations. From Roman Hispania to the race for the Indies, from Muslim Al-Andalus to the Transition and from Jewish Sepharad to Bourbon unification, the keys to a plural, provocative, documented and ironic history are offered.

With a powerful narrative, far removed from academic language and not lacking in irony, España diversa not only strips our history of clichés, but also teaches us that it is change, and not the maintenance of essences, that characterises us.

EDUARDO MANZANO MORENO

Spanish historian specialising in Al-Andalus, with a PhD in Medieval History from the Complutense University of Madrid and a Master of Arts in Near Eastern Studies (School of Oriental and African Studies) from the University of London. Research Professor at the Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales of the CSIC, of which he was director between 2006 and 2012. He has been a visiting researcher at St. Johns College of the University of London.

Presentación del libro 'La España diversa' de Eduardo Manzano

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Presentation of the book ‘Dynamics of Protests in the Arab World’

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Post date 24 de April de 2024
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Dinámicas de protestas en el mundo árabe. Desafiando los regímenes autoritarios — Dinámicasde de protestas en el mundo árabe

As part of the Granada Book Fair, on Wednesday 24 April, the Euro-Arab Foundation and the UGR Publishing House presented the book ‘Dynamics of Protests in the Arab World’.

Presentación del libro Dinámicas de protestas en el mundo árabe

‘Protest Dynamics in the Arab World: Challenging Authoritarian Regimes’ takes a comprehensive approach to protest as a form of unconventional political participation that emerges as a response to authoritarian regimes in the region, and which presents a series of specificities within the field of study of collective action and social movements.

Collective action and social movements have been widely studied in political science as a prism for analysing the socio-political dynamics of different democratic and authoritarian regimes, and especially transitions and democratisation processes.

For the Arab world, however, while protests as a form of political participation have been a constant since colonial times, they have not always been taken into consideration as a primary explanation for the political changes and new social dynamics that the region has experienced over the years.

Dinámicas de protestas en el mundo árabe. — (From left to right) Mª Angustias Parejo; Juan Antonio Macias Amoretti; Bárbara Boloix Gallardo; MªIsabel Cabera y Carmelo Pérez Beltrán.

The presentation of the book included speeches by Bárbara Boloix Gallardo, Deputy Secretary for Cultural and Institutional Cooperation of the Euro-Arab Foundation; Carmelo Pérez Beltrán, Director of the Arab Studies Collection and editor of the book ‘Dynamics of Protest in the Arab World’; Mª Isabel Cabrera García, Director of the UGR Publishing House; Juan Antonio Macias Amoretti, Director of the Department of Semitic Studies at the UGR and Mª Angustias Parejo Fernández, Lecturer in Political Science and Administration at the UGR.

THE AUTHORS

The book, published by the Editorial de la Universidad de Granada, has been written by:

Carmelo Pérez Beltrán, editor of this publication; Inmaculada Szmolka Vida; Laura Mijares; Ángeles Ramírez; Laurence Thieux; Alicia Olmo Gómez; Miguel Hernando de Larramendi; Mª Angustias Parejo Fernández; Isaías Barreñada Bajo; Bárbara Azaola Piazza; Ignacio Álvarez Ossorio; Leila Nachawati Rego and José Abu Tarbush.

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Activities of the Euro-Arab Foundation at the Granada Book Fair

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Post date 22 de April de 2024
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Once again this year, the Euro-Arab Foundation is participating in the 42nd Granada Book Fair with different activities, book presentations, workshop and a meeting of our book club Kutub.

Events organised by Euro-Arabia at the FAIR

MONDAY, 22.- 20:30h / GRANADA Pavilion – Presentation of the book ‘The Blue Sunflower’ by RIMA BALI

TUESDAY, 23.- 17:30h to 18:30h / GRANADA Pavilion – ALIFATO WORKSHOP. Arabic writing. Children’s workshop, for boys and girls from 10 to 16 years old. Free of charge.

Taught by Naima Anahnah and Hassan Laaguir, this Arabic writing workshop is a practical and playful approach to the millenary Arabic calligraphy, the alphate. Participants will be given a short introduction and then go on to reproduce the different characters of the alphate.

WEDNESDAY 24th – 17:30h to 18:30h / GRANADA Pavilion – TIFINAGH WORKSHOP. Amazigh writing. Children’s workshop, for boys and girls from 10 to 16 years old. Free of charge.

Taught by Naima Anahnah and Hassan Laaguir, this is an introductory workshop to the writing and culture of the Amazigh, an indigenous people from the countries of North Africa. Eminently practical, it will teach how to write in one of the oldest scripts in the Mediterranean, the Tifinagh script ⵜⵉⵉⵉⵏⴰⵖ. During the workshop, basic aspects of geography and history of this millenary culture, the Amazigh, will be addressed.

THURSDAY, 25.- 18:00h / ZAIDA Hall – READERS’ MEETING of the novel “Those who are afraid” by the Syrian writer DIMA WANNOUS. Activity registered in the KUTUB Reading Club of the Euro-Arab Foundation.

SATURDAY, 27.- 11:00h.- 12:30h. / GRANADA Pavilion – STORYTELLING. Open to all audiences

The North African Storytelling activity is about telling and narrating traditional Amazigh short stories. This activity will be carried out by 4 pairs, each consisting of a child and an adult relative, as well as a storyteller, with the aim of making known the millenary and rich tradition of storytelling in the Amazigh culture. The narrations will be accompanied by the projection of images subtitled in Spanish, in order to make them more accessible to the hearing impaired.

All the activities of this programme are free of charge, but to attend the workshops you must register in advance at: cursos@fundea.org (link sends e-mail) or by WhatsApp: 635048584
Events organised at Euroarab’s headquarters

WEDNESDAY, 24th – 18:00h. / Euro-Arab Foundation

Presentation of the book ‘Dynamics of Protests in the Arab World. Challenging authoritarian regimes”- UGR Publishing House –

This book takes a comprehensive approach to protest as a form of non-conventional political participation that has emerged as a response to authoritarian regimes in the region, and which presents a series of specificities within the field of study of collective action and social movements.

rita en el Club de Lectura KUTUB de la Fundación Euroárabe.

الفعاليات التي تنظم في مقر المؤسسة الأوروبية العربية

يوم الأربعاء، الموافق 24 من شهر نيسان/أبريل في تمام الساعة 18:00 مساءً، في مقر المؤسسة الأوروبية العربية

عرض كتاب “ديناميات الاحتجاجات في العالم العربي. تحدّي الأنظمة الاستبدادية” – دار النشر التابع لجامعة غرناطة.

يتناول هذا الكتاب مقاربة شاملة للاحتجاج كشكل من أشكال المشاركة السياسية غير التقليدية التي برزت كرد فعل على الأنظمة الاستبدادية في المنطقة، ويقدم سلسلة من المواضيع المتخصصة في مجال دراسة الحركات الاجتماعية.

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Presentation of the book ‘The New Fundamental Social Rights’

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Post date 22 de April de 2024
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Presentation of the book “Los nuevos derechos sociales fundamentales: Una propuesta de reforma constitucional” by Diego López Garrido, Professor of Constitutional Law and Executive Vice-President of the Fundación Alternativas.
fundamental social rights’.

Monday 22 April, at 6 p.m. at the headquarters of the Euro-Arab Foundation.

The presentation will be given by Professor of Constitutional Law, Diego López Garrido, Executive Vice-President of the Alternativas Foundation.

THE BOOK

In the 21st century, the imbalance between the proclamation of the social state as an essential democratic aspiration and the vacuum or absence of sufficient legal guarantees to fill it with content and prevent setbacks is unsustainable. And this applies to the highest-ranking norms, the constitutional norms. We must start with them.

Hence the proposal made in this paper for a reform of the Spanish Constitution to make five specific social rights into genuine fundamental rights. These are: the right to health; the right to an adequate pension; the right to the environment; the right to access to housing; and the right to the protection of personal data.

Presentación del libro Los nuevos derechos sociales — Un momento de la presentación del libro por Diego López Garrido en la Euroárabe

THE AUTHORS

Yolanda Gómez Sánchez – Professor of Constitutional Law Jean Monnet Chair, ad personam UNED.
Diego López Garrido – Emeritus Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Castilla-La Mancha. Legal advisor to the Spanish Parliament, Executive Vice-President of the Fundación Alternativas.
María Mercedes Serrano Pérez – Professor of Constitutional Law, Faculty of Law-Albacete, University of Castilla-La Mancha.
Paulo Ramón Suárez Xavier – Professor at the University of Seville.
Elviro Aranda Álvarez – Professor of Constitutional Law. Carlos III University of Madrid
María Luz Martínez Alarcón – Professor of Constitutional Law. University of Castilla-La Mancha
Antoni Farriols Solá – Computer Applications Analyst.
Mª Celia Fernández Aller – Lecturer in Computer Systems Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

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Cultural Action International Chair in Culture News

Amazigh Fashion Show at the 6th Euro-Amazigh Forum

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Post date 18 de April de 2024
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On April 18, the Euro-Amazigh Fashion Show was presented at the Euro-Arab Foundation as part of the activities carried out in the 6th Euro-Amazigh Forum, which is being held from April 11 to 24 at the Euro-Arab headquarters

The Amazigh Fashion Show is a vibrant event that celebrates the rich cultural heritage and diversity of the Amazigh communities of North Africa.

This fashion show will showcase garments and accessories from different regions of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya

The Euro-Arab Foundation will come alive with colourful textiles, embroidery and geometric patterns characteristic of the Amazigh aesthetic.

The Amazigh designs reflect the deep connection to nature and the history of this community, incorporating elements such as floral motifs, tribal symbols and traditional weaving techniques.

Each garment and accessory tells a unique story, conveying the cultural identity and pride of belonging to the Amazigh community.

The fashion show offered as part of the 6th Euro-Amazigh Forum is not just a fashion exhibition, it is a tribute to the creativity, craftsmanship and resilience of a people who have kept their traditions alive over the centuries.

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The Euro- Arab presents the VI Euro-Amazigh Research Forum

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Post date 4 de April de 2024
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VI Foro Euro-Amazigh de Investigación de la Cátedra de Cultura Amazigh — VI Foro Euro-Amazigh de Investigación de la Cátedra de Cultura Amazig.

The Euro-Amazigh Research Forum will be held from 11 to 24 April. The Forum features a wide-ranging programme of scientific, educational, artistic and cultural activities on the Amazigh arts, with experts from Algeria, Spain, France, Morocco and the United Kingdom.

From 11 to 24 April, the headquarters of the Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies in Granada will host the 6th Euro-Amazigh Research Forum, which this year will be held under the title ‘The Amazigh arts: between traditional expressions and contemporary creations’.

This international Forum, which is part of the International Chair of Amazigh Culture of the Euro-Arab University, has a diverse programme of activities for all audiences: a scientific seminar, workshops, exhibition of tapestries ‘The Weavers of the Atlas’, a film forum with the production ‘Sound of Berberia’ and other cultural performances.

These activities will be attended by experts from Algeria, Spain, France, Morocco and the United Kingdom.

The international seminar opens on Wednesday 17 April at 10 am with four different debate sessions: ‘Amazigh artistic heritage: from the local to the universal’, ‘Narrative and decorative arts’, ‘Towards a history of Amazigh art’ and ‘Performing and performing arts’.

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#8M24 – Group exhibition “JOURNEY TO MATRIA”.

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Post date 8 de March de 2024
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Exposición colectiva 'Viaje a Matria' con motivo del la conmemoración del 8M 2024

For the second consecutive year, on International Women’s Day, the Euro-Arab Foundation brings back to the Euro-Arab Foundation the exhibition JOURNEY TO MATRIA, a collective exhibition of 14 artists convened for this commemoration of the vindication of equal rights, values and culture of the feminine.

Wednesday, March 6, at 6:30 p.m., in the courtyard of the Euro-Arab Foundation.

This exhibition, organised by the Euro-Arab Foundation and the Research Group ‘HUM 211: The medium as a dynamic factor in the didactic practice of Art, is curated by Juan García Villar, professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Granada, and presents a group exhibition of 14 authors who reflect on the need for real equality between women and men in our societies.

With a great diversity of languages, techniques and supports, VIAJE A MATRIA presents different works by 14 artists using pictorial, sculptural, digital, graphic, photographic and video-creation techniques.

The exhibition can be visited at the Euro-Arab Foundation from March 6th to April 5th, from Monday to Thursday, from 9am to 2pm and from 5pm to 8pm; Friday mornings only and closed on weekends and public holidays.

The artists of VIAJE A MATRIA are:

Javier Álamo, Concha Arenas, Belén Esturla, Juan Ramón Fernández Puñal, Helia García Arenas, Miguel García Cobo, Miguel Hurtado, Javier Mena, Eva Pérez Cano, Rosa María Ponce, David Sánchez, Alicia Soriano, Antonio Travé and Juan García Villar.

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Cultural Action International Chair in Culture Library

WEAVING COMMUNITIES: Libraries Day 2023

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Post date 24 de October de 2023
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Since 1997, Libraries Day has been celebrated every 24 October by the Spanish Association of Friends of Children’s and Young People’s Books (link is external), sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Sport,(link is external) in memory of the Sarajevo Library, which was burned down on 25 August 1992 during the siege of Sarajevo.

The Dr. Leila Mezian Library, open to the public since 2017, responds to the mission of the Euro-Arab Foundation to promote academic, scientific and cultural exchange between European and Arab countries and was created within the framework of the International Chair of Amazigh Culture.

This library is the result of the agreement signed by the Euro-Arab Foundation and the Dr. Leila Mezian Foundation, to disseminate the knowledge and cultures of the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa / Middle East and North Africa) and, especially, of the Amazigh people, being the only one of its kind in Spain and Europe.

Among its objectives is to expand the library collection, increase the number of users of library services and have greater visibility. To this end, several strategies have been devised, both inside and outside the headquarters.

For the growth of the documentary collection of history, sociology, language and literature, we have relied on our donors (AECID, BEEA-CSIC; UGR, Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture, among others). In addition, a financial allocation has been earmarked for the purchase of lots for the Kutub Reading Club.

From the 2020-2021 academic year, we have opted for our Kutub Reading Club in a hybrid format. The new edition of KUTUB, which starts next Thursday, 26 October, will be dedicated to Mediterranean narrative written by women.

Our Library includes various activities such as the organisation of seminars. An example of this is the international seminar held on 28 September on ‘Arabic and Universal Literature: What is the Arabic literary canon?’, organised together with the Sheikh Zayd Prize, one of the main prizes in the world devoted to Arab literature and culture.

It also organises workshops such as the project ‘Bridge between cultures: initiation to the arts of North Africa’, a practical and playful approach to different Arab and Amazigh (Berber) artistic and cultural manifestations, as well as Andalusian cultural heritage. More than 700 schoolchildren and teachers have benefited from our workshops free of charge.

If you wish to contact our Library, you can contact the Library Manager, Naima Anahnah, by e-mail: biblioteca@fundea.org(link sends e-mail) or by telephone on 958 206 508.

Or you can come and visit us. We are in calle San Jerónimo, 27 in Granada and below you can see our opening hours.

We are waiting for you!