A contemporary representation of the Arab World
Islamic terrorism, The Koran, bazaars, The Alhambra, Ramadan, beards, Sherezade and 1001 Nights, the Haima, Franco's Guards, the Palestinian Scarf, Allah, tea, The Ayatollah Jomeni, Chador, Mecca, harems, petrol, Osama, prayer, hashish plantations, Mohammed Ali, rotten wooden rowing-boats full of immigrants, carpets, kasbahs, chess, numbers, turbans, scimitars, Saddam Hussein, cuscus, Hezbollah, belly-dancers... Do we really know anything about the Arab world apart from all the clichés mentioned above? When we look towards the Middle East, do we see anything apart from all the stuff shovelled to us by the mass media? Does any contemporary or mould-breaking art exist in that part of the world?
Arteleku in Donostia has organised a series of lectures and exhibitions of the contemporary Arab world that runs from the 14th to the 19th of June. The idea behind all of this is to show that there are all different types of mentality in the Islamic world. Modern "mentality" is not exclusively Western, and this display clearly proves that the Islamic part of the world has its own people and means that propose and bring about change. This is a wonderful opportunity to better colonial intellectualism and see a facet of the Muslim world not portrayed by the media. Amongst others, speakers Eyal Sivan and Michel Khleifi, Salima Ghezali, Aboubakr Jamai, Tariq Ramadan, Nadia Yassin and Gema Martin Muñoz will touch upon all kinds of subjects in public lectures and debates: an analysis of political evolution in the region and how to overcome the present crisis; the roles played by the different peoples of the world and Western powers - and the roles they should be playing -; an analysis of the different political parties and the options offered by current political alternatives; the role to be played by Islam as regards these different options; the work still to be carried out in the field of human rights and opinions on the "fight against terrorism"...
Arteleku in Donostia has organised a series of lectures and exhibitions of the contemporary Arab world that runs from the 14th to the 19th of June. The idea behind all of this is to show that there are all different types of mentality in the Islamic world. Modern "mentality" is not exclusively Western, and this display clearly proves that the Islamic part of the world has its own people and means that propose and bring about change. This is a wonderful opportunity to better colonial intellectualism and see a facet of the Muslim world not portrayed by the media. Amongst others, speakers Eyal Sivan and Michel Khleifi, Salima Ghezali, Aboubakr Jamai, Tariq Ramadan, Nadia Yassin and Gema Martin Muñoz will touch upon all kinds of subjects in public lectures and debates: an analysis of political evolution in the region and how to overcome the present crisis; the roles played by the different peoples of the world and Western powers - and the roles they should be playing -; an analysis of the different political parties and the options offered by current political alternatives; the role to be played by Islam as regards these different options; the work still to be carried out in the field of human rights and opinions on the "fight against terrorism"...
