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Aula Árabe Universitaria 3.1. : Re-imagining the Arabs: Literature and social contracts

Publicado el 23 de septiembre 2021
Casa Árabe is bringing back its program Aula Árabe Universitaria, in a third edition planned for the academic year of 2021/22. This will also be the official opening session of the UAM’s Master’s Degree program in Contemporary Arab and Islamic Studies. The event will be held in a hybrid format, with one of the speakers participating remotely. Trapped amid tradition and post-modernity, contemporary Arab identity has been misinterpreted and misrepresented. The political landscape of all societies has undergone profound change in recent decades, and the Middle East and North Africa region has not been spared from the world’s transformations either. Despite the promise of events in 2011, the momentum for progress in governance and freedom has broken down violently, and political stagnation has been revived. The elusive nature of globalization, coupled with the unstructured environment of political life, has arguably given way to “liquid times” (Zygmunt Bauman), exacerbated by an emerging “age of anger” (Pankaj Mishra). As a result, many are crying out for a rethinking of the concepts and cognitive frameworks used to narrate the individual human experience and humankind’s joint history. How can Arab societies re-imagine themselves and take ownership of their histories? Novelist Fadia Faqir explored the limits of patriarchy and the voices of women writers, while Amro Ali has been reflecting on karama (dignity) and the social contract in her latest essay. Casa Árabe, with the cooperation of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Foundation and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), is organizing this round table discussion, which at the same time will serve as the official opening session of this new edition of Aula Árabe Universitaria (third edition) and the Master’s degree program in Arab and Islamic Studies at the UAM. Taking part will be Nieves Paradela, a professor of Arab Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Thomas Volk, director of the regional program “Dialogue with the Southern Mediterranean” of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and Karim Hauser, Casa Árabe’s International Relations Coordinator. Fadia Faqir authored "Nisanit", "Pillar of Salt", "My Name is Salma / The Cry of the Dove" and "Willow Trees Don’t Weep". Her work has been translated into fifteen languages and published in 19 countries. The foreword to her fourth novel, "At the Midnight Kitchen", was published in Weber Studies, and won its fiction award in 2009. Her short story “Under the Cypress Tree” was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in 2010. She was the director of the Master’s degree program in Gender Studies - Arab World at Durham University’s Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies until 2004. Her academic writings focus on gender, democracy and Islam, as well as violence against women. She is a writing fellow at Durham University’s St Aidan’s College, where she teaches creative writing. She is also one of the founders of The Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship, initiator of the Alta’ir Exchange between Durham and Jordan, and a trustee of the Durham Palestine Educational Trust. Amro Ali is a researcher with the Forum transregionale Studien (EUME) and the Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies at the Free University of Berlin, as well as a member of the Young Arab-German Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Prior to that, he was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the American University in Cairo (AUC), an Associate of the Sydney Democracy Network, and a Visiting Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung /Berlin Center for Social Sciences, WZB). He holds a PhD from the University of Sydney, an MA in Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies and an MA in Diplomacy from the Australian National University. His fields of research include Arab public spheres, Mediterranean Studies, contemporary Alexandria, intellectual history, cities, citizenship, exile, technological modernity, sociological philosophy and political philosophy, with a focus on Hannah Arendt, Václav Havel and Byung-Chul Han.

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  • The contribution of sociolinguistics to the Arabic languageVer vídeo

    The contribution of sociolinguistics to the Arabic language

    Reem Bassiouney, a writer and professor at the American University of Cairo, will give the ninth lecture in the Aula Árabe Universitaria programme. On 17 December, at 1:00 p.m. in Madrid, and on our YouTube channel. Casa Árabe is organizing this ninth session in the series Aula Árabe Universitaria 3, to be given by Reem Bassiouney, a writer and professor at the American University of Cairo, in collaboration with the Master’s Degree in Intercultural Communication, Translation and Interpreting in Public Services given at the University of Alcalá de Henares. Introducing the event will be Mohana Sultan, a professor and the Arabic coordinator of the Master’s program. Moderating the session is Olivia Orozco, Casa Árabe’s Training and Economics Coordinator. The conference will analyze the impact of sociolinguistics on study of the Arabic language, focusing on the relationship between bilingualism, ideology and language policy in the political history of the Arab countries. In her discussion, Reem Bassiouney will start by explaining the emergence of sociolinguistics as a relatively modern science, as well as the reasons for and context of this emergence, so as to address some of the research methods and theories that have had an effect on this science over the years. Her talk will revolve around two important themes: on the one hand, bilingualism and, on the other, code-switching, exploring the theories which explain these two aspects with examples from the Arab world in particular. After this, she will address the topic of Arabic dialects and their relationship both with classical Arabic (al-fusha) and with each other, to discuss an important core area of sociolinguistics with examples: language politics and its relationship with the political history of countries in the Arab world. Last of all, she will analyze the relationship between ideologies and the implications of languages and dialects in the Arab world by discussing examples and theories. The conference will bring the international gathering to a close “Teaching the Arabic language in Spain and Europe,” organized by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Casa Árabe and CIHAR, with the cooperation of the Diplomatic Mission of the Arab League in Madrid, on the dates of December 16 and 17 at the UAM and Casa Árabe, to mark the celebration of 2021 as the International Year of the Arabic Language, and World Arabic Language Day on December 18. Further information: https://en.casaarabe.es/event/new-edition-of-aula-arabe-universitaria-2 Photo: Catching up (Asim Bharwani en Flickr)
    Publicado el 10 de diciembre 2021
  • Aula Árabe Universitaria 3.8. Ser periodista en Oriente MedioVer vídeo

    Aula Árabe Universitaria 3.8. Ser periodista en Oriente Medio

    El próximo jueves, 25 de noviembre, celebraremos en Casa Árabe la octava conferencia de nuestro programa Aula Árabe Universitaria, de la mano de Adrián Mac Liman. Será en nuestra sede de Madrid y en Youtube. Casa Árabe organiza esta octava sesión del ciclo Aula Árabe Universitaria 3, a cargo de Adrián Mac Liman, analista político internacional, escritor y periodista, en colaboración con Máster Universitario de Periodismo Internacional de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC). Presentará el acto Amal Abuwarda Pérez, profesora de dicho máster y moderará la sesión Karim Hauser, coordinador de Relaciones Internacionales de Casa Árabe. En su intervención, Mac Liman ofrecerá un recorrido de sus vivencias y dilatada experiencia cubriendo Oriente Medio, empezando con los primeros encuentros entre profesionales árabes y palestinos en las Naciones Unidas, en la década de los años 1970s, para continuar con la invasión de Chipre en 1974, la caída del Sha en 1979, la muerte de Sadat en 1981, la guerra de El Líbano en 1982, la corresponsalía en Jerusalén, la primera Intifada, etc. además de sus diversos encuentros con líderes políticos y actores relevantes de la región, entre ellos los encuentros con Yasser Arafat, Osama Bin Laden y Butros-Ghali. Su enfoque se centrará en la percepción del periodista, como ser interesado en descifrar el lenguaje y la mentalidad del otro, de reflejar y traducir su pensamiento. Adrián Mac Liman Adrián Mac Liman es analista político internacional, escritor y periodista con una dilatada experiencia en Oriente Medio. Periodista desde muy joven, trabajó para medios de comunicación internacionales como ANSA (Italia), AMEX (México), Gráfica (EE.UU.), y fue el primer corresponsal del diario El País en los Estados Unidos (EE.UU.). Colaborador habitual del vespertino madrileño "Informaciones" y de la revista Cambio 16, fue corresponsal de guerra en Chipre (1974), testigo de la caída del Sha de Irán (1978) y enviado especial del rotativo La Vanguardia durante la invasión de El Líbano por las tropas israelíes en 1982. Residió en Jerusalén desde 1987 hasta 1989 como corresponsal del semanario "El Independiente". Tras su participación en los preparativos de la Conferencia Euromediterránea de Barcelona (1995), se incorporó en calidad de experto al Grupo de Estudios Mediterráneos de la universidad parisiense de La Sorbona. Entre 1999 y 2001, fue analista y comentarista de política internacional del rotativo Diario 16. En la actualidad, colabora con el diario La Razón, la publicación digital Canarias Ahora, el semanario La Clave y el Centro de Colaboraciones Solidarias (CCS) de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, que distribuye su servicio semanal a más de 800 publicaciones de lengua hispana. Interviene, en calidad de analista, en los programas del Canal 24 Horas (TVE), así como en los espacios informativos de Intereconomía TV, Radio Intereconomía y TV3 (Televisió de Catalunya). Es autor de varios libros sobre Oriente Medio, entre ellos: Vía Dolorosa: Palestina en el tercer milenio (Flor del Viento, 1999), Palestina: el volcán (Popular, 2001), El caos que viene: enemigo sin rostro, guerra sin nombre (Popular, 2002), Turquía – un país entre dos mundos, con Sara Núñez de Prado (Flor del Viento, 2004), y Breve historia de Turquía (Catarata, 2019). Máster de Periodismo Internacional de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos El Máster en Periodismo Internacional tiene por objeto satisfacer la demanda de nuevos profesionales expertos en Periodismo Internacional, capacitados para integrarse en un entorno profesional de creación de contenidos en el ámbito de las relaciones internacionales multimedia y digitales. Trata temas transversales que desde la ciencia de las relaciones internacionales se han estudiado de forma tardía y de una manera pormenorizada desde el ángulo periodístico: el área de las relaciones culturales internacionales, desde el ángulo de la diversidad cultural e interculturalidad, y el compromiso con los derechos humanos. Pone de manifiesto la necesidad de una formación especializada para cubrir la demanda de nuevos profesionales en el sector, especialmente en áreas innovadoras como el Periodismo con enfoque en Derechos Humanos, el Periodismo de Soluciones Internacionales, el Periodismo de Datos internacionales y el Periodismo Global. Más información: https://www.casaarabe.es/eventos-arabes/show/ser-periodista-en-oriente-medio
    Publicado el 19 de noviembre 2021
  • Aula Árabe Universitaria 3.7. State, oil and war in the formation of IraqVer vídeo

    Aula Árabe Universitaria 3.7. State, oil and war in the formation of Iraq

    Taking place on November 18 at the Casa Árabe headquarters in Madrid is the seventh conference in the Aula Árabe Universitaria program, given by Professor Nida Alahmad (University of Edinburgh). Over the past few decades, three themes—the state, oil, and war—have shaped both Iraqi politics and Iraqi studies. These themes emerge from Iraq’s modern history and its representation in academia. Academic work on Iraq witnessed a number of shifts that can be traced to two interrelated factors: access to primary source material, and the political context of the time. This lecture will show how the state, oil, and war are interrelated themes rather than definitively bound categories that determine certain effects on Iraq’s political economy. They are markers in historical processes that, since the late nineteenth century, involved the formation of social relations often organized by conceptual categories such as class, sect, nation, and gender. These social relations have constantly informed and constituted one another within particular material and historical contexts. Casa Árabe has organized this conference on “State, oil and war in the formation of Iraq,” given by Nida Alahmad, a professor of Middle East Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, with the cooperation of the bachelor’s degree program in International Relations at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) and the bachelor’s degree program in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). The event will be presented by Isaías Barreñada, a professor and the coordinator of the UCM bachelor’s degree program in International Relations. The event will be moderated by Olivia Orozco, Casa Árabe’s Training and Economics Coordinator. Nida Alahmad is a professor of Middle East Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh. Prior to joining this university, she was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Ghent University, a post-doctoral researcher at Georgetown University and a visiting researcher and associate at the European University Institute. She earned her PhD from the New School for Social Research (New York). Some of her most notable recent publications include the chapter titled State, Oil, and War in the Formation of Iraq, in A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa, edited by Joel Beinin, Bassam Haddad and Sherene Seikaly (Stanford University Press, 2020). She is currently working on finalizing her book manuscript State Matters: The State, its significance, its matters, and its experts in the case of Iraq. Bachelor’s degree in International Relations (UCM) Research on the role-players, events and processes occurring within international society became detached from other social sciences after the end of World War I. For decades, the development of International Relations that took place in Western countries had no correspondence in Spain due to the isolationism that dominated Spanish foreign policy, the country’s incomplete economic development and the little scientific and cultural openness that characterized the Franco era. However, the establishment of democracy first and the membership in the European Community later achieved Spain’s full participation in an international stage that underwent an intense process of globalization. The bachelor’s degree in International Relations attempts to provide a structured, multidisciplinary and comprehensive higher education to the international specialists increasingly and urgently needed by Spanish society and the rest of Europe. Bachelor’s degree program in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (UAM) This degree program promotes interdisciplinary thinking, viewed not as a series of isolated contents from a wide range of disciplines, but rather as the fostering of an atmosphere for authentic discussion, dialogue and integration of theoretical and empirical approaches which are necessarily complementary for both students and teachers. It provides a view of the social sciences from different perspectives, equipping students with the tools they need to analyze an increasingly global, complex and connected world. It is an inter-university degree with joint instruction by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and the Universidad Pompeu Fabra. More information: https://en.casaarabe.es/event/state-oil-and-war-in-the-formation-of-iraq Photo: Iraq Tour 94 (Elliot Plack on Flickr)
    Publicado el 18 de noviembre 2021
  • Borders and oil in the formation of Arab States: 100 years after the Cairo Conference (1921)Ver vídeo

    Borders and oil in the formation of Arab States: 100 years after the Cairo Conference (1921)

    On Thursday, November 18, Casa Árabe will be hosting this international seminar about the role of hydrocarbons in shaping states and the delimiting their borders in the Middle East, focusing on Iraq, in particular. Coinciding with the hundredth anniversary of the Cairo Conference (1921), which discussed the drawing of borders and the creation of the new states in the region that would come to be known as the Middle East, Casa Árabe, with the cooperation of the University of Barcelona’s Antoni Capmany Study Center, has organized this seminar on “Borders and oil in the formation of Arab States: 100 years after the Cairo Conference (1921),” the purpose of which is to begin a series of activities and joint work on the past and present of the Arab world’s Political Economy. From a historical perspective, the seminar will perform a political-economic analysis of the time when Iraq was created, and its evolution throughout later years, with a special emphasis on the importance of times after World War One, during the creation of its borders and state, with the objective of integrating the resources of this territory and its economy into the world’s capitalist system and getting its oil to flow within the then-new international oil system.  The seminar will begin with an introductory session given by Aurelia Mañé Estrada, a professor of Economic Policy at the University of Barcelona (UB), and Elvira Sánchez Mateos, a professor in the International Studies Master’s degree program at the same university, on “Borders, mandates and oil in shaping the Middle East,” with the participation of Carmen Rodríguez López, a professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid as a moderator, and Gonzalo Escribano Francés, a professor of Political Economics at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) and the director of the Energy and Climate Change Program at the Real Instituto Elcano, in the comments and first reaction portion of the seminar.  A second session, organized as part of the Aula Árabe Universitaria 3 program, held in collaboration with the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) bachelor’s degree program in International Relations and the UAM bachelor’s degree program in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, will be devoted in particular to Iraq, featuring a talk by Nida Alahmad, a professor of Middle East Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, on “State, oil and war in the formation of Iraq,” moderated by Olivia Orozco de la Torre, Casa Árabe’s Training and Economics Coordinator, as well as the participation of Isaías Barreñada Bajo, a professor of International Relations at the UCM, to give the initial comments and reaction. The second session will be streamed live at: https://youtu.be/X0Uo20fNge0 More information: https://en.casaarabe.es/event/borders-and-oil-in-the-formation-of-arab-states-100-years-after-the-cairo-conference-1921 Photo: Cairo Conference (1921). Published in "The Letters of Gertrude Bell, volume II" in 1927.
    Publicado el 11 de noviembre 2021
  • Aula Árabe 3.6. Estrategias desarrollistas petroleras en el mundo árabe: el caso de ArgeliaVer vídeo

    Aula Árabe 3.6. Estrategias desarrollistas petroleras en el mundo árabe: el caso de Argelia

    Sexta conferencia del programa Aula Árabe Universitaria, a cargo de Aurelia Mañé, profesora de Política Económica de la Universidad de Barcelona. Será el 17 de noviembre, en la sede de Casa Árabe en Madrid y en Youtube. La conferencia de Aurelia Mañé, profesora de Política Económica en la Universidad de Barcelona (UB), tiene por objetivo explicar en qué consistió el modelo de desarrollo de las llamadas economías petroleras, al tiempo que pretende reflexionar sobre el contexto en el que se gestó el Nuevo Orden Internacional en los años 1970s. Después de un breve repaso histórico a la situación económica mundial de inicios de los años 1970, se analizarán las principales características de las economías petroleras, para entrar, después, en el debate de las razones de su fracaso, en términos de desarrollo económico. Parte de esta explicación será ilustrada exponiendo el caso de Argelia, protagonista muy relevante de esta iniciativa. Casa Árabe organiza esta sexta conferencia del programa Aula Árabe Universitaria 3 (AAU3) en colaboración con el Máster en Economía internacional y Desarrollo de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). En este sentido, presentará la conferencia Juan M. Ramírez-Cendrero, profesor de Economía del Desarrollo de dicha universidad. Moderará el encuentro Olivia Orozco, coordinadora de Formación y Economía de Casa Árabe. Aurelia Mañé Estrada Profesora titular en la Facultad de Economía y Empresa de la Universidad de Barcelona (UB) e investigadora honoraria en la School of History de la Universidad de East Anglia, en Reino Unido. Forma parte del departamento de geopolítica y seguridad energética del Real Instituto Elcano, así como de varios grupos de investigación universitaria. Fue creadora, en el año 2008, del Observatorio Asia Central, también fue máxima responsable de este proyecto y colaboradora en Casa Asia sobre temas energéticos. Doctora y licenciada en Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales por la Universidad de Barcelona, posee también un Máster en Estudios Internacionales por dicha universidad. Ha centrado buena parte de su investigación en el estudio de cuestiones relacionadas con los recursos energéticos, focalizando su trabajo en las regiones de Asia Central y Argelia. Entre sus últimas publicaciones destacan "El gran negocio mundial de la energía" (RBA Libros, 2016), "Energy Interdependence. The Linkage of the Political Economy of Algeria´s Natural Gas With that of the Western Mediterranean Region. A Methodological Approach" con Roger Albinyana en Revista UNISCI (2018) y, en autoría con Laurence Thieux y Miguel Hernando de Larramendi, "Argelia en transición hacia una segunda república" (Icaria, 2019). Máster en Economía internacional y Desarrollo (UCM) La economía mundial se presenta como un ámbito cada vez más determinante para la comprensión de una parte importante de los fenómenos y problemas actuales. Las grandes desigualdades internacionales, la influencia de las empresas transnacionales, la volatilidad en los mercados financieros, el papel cambiante de algunos países en el escenario mundial, los retos del desarrollo o los desafíos medioambientales son algunas cuestiones de cuya evolución se desprenden importantes consecuencias para las diferentes sociedades. Todo ello justifica la necesidad de estudiar y conocer las múltiples vertientes y facetas de la economía mundial. Este proceso de formación del máster aporta: sólidos fundamentos teóricos y metodológicos para el análisis económico, capacidad para formular y desarrollar investigaciones y otros estudios y conocimiento especializado sobre aspectos centrales de los diferentes campos de la economía mundial y el desarrollo. Más información: https://www.casaarabe.es/eventos-arabes/show/estrategias-desarrollistas-petroleras-en-el-mundo-arabe-el-caso-de-argelia Foto: Planta de gas de Kechba, Argelia (Adam en Flickr)
    Publicado el 03 de noviembre 2021