Fifth Arab Week in Mexico
"Colloquium Diversities of the Arab World"
November 3rd to 7th, 2014
El Colegio de México and Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas

 

Monday, November 3, 2014

10:00 - 10:30 hrs.

INAUGURATION: Colloquium Diversities of the Arab World (Alfonso Reyes Auditorium, El Colegio de México)

10:30 - 12:30 hrs.

PANEL 1: Regional Politics — Moderates: Marta Tawil (Alfonso Reyes Auditorium, El Colegio de México)

• Panelist: Francia Conde García, FES Aragón, UNAM.

  • Title: Maritime Geopolitics: Geostrategic Points in the Arab world.

• Panelist: Bruno Eduardo Osorio Hernández and Luis Hernández Ojesto Martínez, El Colegio de México.

  • Title: The role of the leader in foreign policy. Houari Boumédiène in Algeria and Habib Bourguiba in Tunisia.

• Panelist: Clementina Chávez Ballesteros, El Colegio de México.

• Title: The democracy of the oppressors: The Republic of Yemen three years after the riots.

• Panelist: José Alberto Ramírez del Valle and Jimena Anguiano Martínez, Tecnológico de Monterrey, CEM.

  • Title: The domestic crisis in the post-Morsi Egypt and its regional and global consequences: an analysis of the conflict from idealism and constructivism.

• Panelist: Aidé Rivas Hernández, FES Aragón, UNAM.

  • Title: Energetic security in Algeria's foreign policy.

 

12:30 - 14:30 hrs.

KEY LECTURE: Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University, "Islamophobia and the Politics of the New Atheism" (Alfonso Reyes Auditorium, El Colegio de México).

 

16:00 - 18:00 hrs.

PANEL 2: Middle East and the world — Moderates: Élodie Brun (Alfonso Reyes Auditorium, El Colegio de México)

• Panelist: Élodie Brun, El Colegio de México.

  • Title: Brazilian diplomacy towards the Middle East: Diversity on which side?

• Panelist: Eduardo Tzili Apango, El Colegio de México.

  • Title: China's influence in international institutions: The Sino-Arab Cooperation Forum.

• Panelist: María del Rocío Rodríguez Echeverría, El Colegio de México.

  • Title: Turkish Cultural Diplomacy: action and influence in the Middle East.

• Panelist: Sergio Vázquez Meneley, Centro de Investigaciones y Docencias Económicas

  • Title: Mexico's approaching to Middle Powers through MIKTA: Turkey and Indonesia.

 

 

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Tuesday, November 4, 2014

10:30 - 12:30 hrs.

PANEL 3: Syria — Moderates: Luis Mesa (Alfonso Reyes Auditorium, El Colegio de México)

• Panelist: Ana Paulina Gil Vargas, El Colegio de México.

  • Title: Humanitarian, economic and social costs of the conflict.

• Panelist: Resih Omar Hernández Beristáin, El Colegio de México.

  • Title: Alawis and power consolidation.

• Panelist: Alejandra González Guerrero, El Colegio de México.

  • Title: Foreign actors in the conflicto. The chemical disarmament and the intervention.

• Panelist: Agustín Hernández Berea, El Colegio de México

  • Título: Ethnic and religious diversity: new arrangements of past conflicts?

• Panelist: Otto Becerril García, El Colegio de México.

  • Title: Political and armed opposition.

 

12:30 - 13:30 hrs.

KEY LECTURE: Amal Eqeiq, Williams College, "Popular culture in the Middle East" (Alfonso Reyes Auditorium, El Colegio de México).

 

16:00 - 18:00 hrs.

PANEL 4: Iran — Moderates: Luis Mesa (Alfonso Reyes Auditorium, El Colegio de México)

• Panelist: Alí Feizollahi, Departamento de Filología Hispánica y Estudios de América latina, Facultad de Lenguas extranjeras, Universidad de Teherán.

• • Title: Interculturalism as an instrument of  'soft coup'.

• Panelist: Ared Alejandra García González, Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla.

  • Title: Reviewing Iran's nuclear program: A year from the negotiations with the P5+1.

• Panelist: María Elena Díaz de la Cruz, FCPyS, UNAM.

  • Title: The nuclear program and the social forces in Iran.

• Panelist: José de Jesús de la Torre Robles, El Colegio de México.

  • Title: The importance of Syria for Iran, realities and myths.

 

16:00 - 18:00 hrs.

PANEL 5: Intertwined views, revising Africa through Arab eyes — Moderates: María Elena Pompa Dávalos (Room 5524, El Colegio de México)

• Panelist: Alejandro Argüelles Colmenares, Universidad La Salle.

  • Title: About the redefinition of Jihad in the case of Rwanda.

• Panelist: Sebastián Andrés Gómez Garcés, Universidad La Salle.

  • Title: The "otherness" in the dynamics of conflict in Somalia.

• Panelist: Cutberto Hernández Legorreta, Universidad La Salle.

  • Title: The methodological importance of the work of E. Said to study of Africa.

• Panelist: Luis Mauricio Bravo Arias, Universidad La Salle.

  • Title: Importance of Internet and Social Media in the Arab World and the Fall of their regimes.

 

17:00 - 19:30 hrs.

INAUGURATION: Permanent Workshop of Middle Eastern Studies at FCPyS, UNAM —Presented by (pending confirmation): Dr. Fernando Castañeda Sabido —Director of the FCPyS, UNAM— and scholars from the Middle East Course at the University.

KEY LECTURE: Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University, "The Geopolitical Reconfiguration of the Middle East 3 years since the Arab revolutions".

(Lucio Mendieta Hall, FCPyS, UNAM).

 

18:00 - 19:00 hrs.

MAGAZINE'S PRESENTATION: Foro Internacional 217 (Alfonso Reyes Auditorium, El Colegio de México).

 

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Wednesday November 5, 2014

10:30 - 12:30 hrs.

PANEL 6: Language and power — Moderates: Gabriel Ramos (Alfonso Reyes Auditorium, El Colegio de México)

• Panelist: Aaron L. Rosenberg, El Colegio de México.

  • Title: Narrating the nation: Shaaban Robert and Tanzania' literary construction.

• Panelist: Virginia Mercado Flores, FCPyS, UAEM.

  • Title: From Pan Am 103 Flight to the revival of economic and diplomatic activities with Libya under Gaddafi.

• Panelist: Stephan Sberro and Itzel Pérez Gómez, ITAM.

  • Title: Soft power in Arabic: Tunisian case.

 

10:30 - 12:30 hrs.

PANEL 7: Northern Africa: Berbers, Sahrawis and Tuaregs — Moderates: Azul Ramírez (Room 2247, El Colegio de México)

• Panelist: María Araceli Del Angel García, Universidad La Salle.

  • Title: Berbers in Monte Alban, Morocco, Arab country.

• Panelist: Claudia Barona Castañeda, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla.

  • Title: Western Sahara, new sources and interpretations.

• Panelist: José Luis Zuno Orozco, Universidad de Guadalajara.

  • Title: Space, music and resistente in Tuareg's notion.

 

12:30 - 14:30 hrs.

KEY LECTURE: Aude Signoles, Science Pox Aix-en-Provence, "Decentralization during "revolutionary" times: a comparison between Tunisia and Egypt" (Alfonso Reyes Auditorium, El Colegio de México).

 

16:00 - 18:00 hrs.

PANEL 8: Public Policies and Security — Moderates: Lorena Ruano (Salón 2247, El Colegio de México)

• Panelist: Fernando Bazán, Centro de Estudios del Medio Oriente Contemporáneo, Argentina.

  • Title: US Foreign Policy to ISIS in Syria.

• Panelist: Edna Liliana Gómez Fernández, DAP, CIDE.

  • Title: Public policies in global contexts: the case of Islam.

• Panelist: Ximena Suárez de la Cruz, UNAM.

  • Title: Humanitarian intervention? The answer from International Society to the Syrian conflict.

 

16:00 - 18:00 hrs.

PANEL 9: Palestine - Israel — Moderates: Shadi Rohana (Alfonso Reyes Auditorium, El Colegio de México)

• Panelist: Luis Alexander Montero Moncada, CCEA, Universidad Externado de Colombia.

  • Title: Systemic international relations as a determinant of critical variables. Theoretical contributions to the understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

• Panelist: Francisco Daniel Abundis Mejía, UNAM.

  • Title: The State of Israel and the perpetuation of the conflict.

• Panelist: Daniel Arellano Lezama, UAM-Iztapalapa.

  • Title: Hamas as Palestinian resistance: a necessary reminder.

• Panelist: Alejandra Gutiérrez Luna, FCPyS, UNAM.

  • Title: The role of Palestinian women in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

• Panelist: Témoris Grecko, Independent.

Title: Gaza: Journalism trapped in the propaganda war.

 

18:00 - 20:00 hrs.

PERMANENT SEMINAR: "Key Policies in the Middle East" (Alfonso Reyes Auditorium, El Colegio de México)

 

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Thursday November 6, 2014

10:30 - 12:30 hrs.

PANEL 10: Women, conflict and popular culture — Moderates: Camila Pastor (Room CIB 1, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas)

• Panelist: Erika S. Aguilar Silva, Independiente.

  • Title: Bilmusharika nastati'u y Banat al-Balad: ¿Efficient strategies for the political empowerment of Palestinian women?

• Panelist: Pedro Daniel Contreras Camacho, Independiente.

  • Title: Pop culture and LGBT activism in Lebanon: The Case of Mashrou' Leila

• Panelist: Evelyn Norma Castro Méndez, UNAM-El Colegio de México

  • Title: The political participation of Egyptian women in the 2010-2011 revolution, an analysis of visual discourse.

• Panelist: Mariana Esquivel Corona and Rodrigo Alberto Círigo Jiménez, El Colegio de México.

  • Title: Women in Iran and Kuwait: The evolution of their rights, their role, their challenges.

 

10:30 - 12:30 hrs.

PANEL 11: Museology and iconography — Moderates: Gilberto Conde (Room CIB 2, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas)

• Panelist: Alejandra Gómez Colorado, Museo Nacional de las Culturas, INAH.

  • Title: The cypress of Gaza, iconographic analysis of traditional Palestinian clothing.

• Panelist: Iskra Alejandra Rojo Negrete, Posgrado de Geografía, UNAM.

  • Title: The Arab World through the Musical instrument's collection from the National Museum of Cultures - INAH.

• Panelist: Abdelaziz Abid, Independiente.

  • Title: The Arab world through the World Digital Library.

 

12:30 - 14:30 hrs.

KEY LECTURE: Nuha Khoury, University of California Santa Barbara, "Art in Lebanon: bodies in transition" (Room CIB 1, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas).

 

16:00 - 18:00 hrs.

PANEL 12: Art, staging and market — Moderates: Alejandra Colorado (Room CIB 1, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas)

• Panelist: Dulce María Jiménez Rodríguez, Universidad de Guadalajara.

  • Title: Distortion of the Orient through the dance: folklorization of belly dance and its repercussions in the Arab World.

• Panelist: Rodrigo Rosas Torres, FAD, UNAM.

  • Title: Incorporation of contemporary Arab Art to the European market.

• Panelist: Donají Portillo, UNAM.

  • Title: The influence of Islam in the scenic arts of the Indian subcontinent.

• Panelist: Cynthia Jeannette Pérez Antúnez, CENIDI Danza "José Limón", INBA.

  • Título: Dancing in "tribe": Community and political interactions in American style Belly Dance.

 

16:00 - 18:00 hrs.

PANEL 13: Orientalisms — Moderates: Élodie Brun (Room CIB 2, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas)

• Panelist: José Luis Alexis Rivera Luque, FFyL, UNAM

  • Title: An analysis of a partial translation from the Latin version of Quran, from Robert de Ketton (1142-1143): lexicographic results.

• Panelist: Bertha Melissa Damián Arellano, FFyL, UNAM

  • Title: Representations of "the Orient" in En los labios del agua, Alberto Ruy Sánchez novel.

• Panelist: José Andrés Camino de Villa, Universidad La Salle.

  • Title: Influence of Islam in Spanish Literature.

• Panelist: Reynier Valdés Piñeiro, CEAA, El Colegio de México.

  • Title: Photograph of Orientalist themes produced in the Middle East: between self-orientalism and alternative visions of the East.

• Panelist: Mehdi Mesmoudi, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur.

  • Title: Humanism according to Edward Said: Towards a plural Arab and Islamic world.

 

18:00 - 19:00 hrs.

BOOK'S PRESENTATION: El Islamismo en Túnez: de la independencia al renacer salafista, Sergio Moya (Room CIB 1, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas).

 

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Friday November 7, 2014

10:30 - 12:30 hrs.

PANEL 14: Arab diaspora — Moderates: Marco Zuccato (Room CIB 1, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas)

• Panelist: Greta Alvarado Lugo, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí.

  • Title: Architectural eclecticism in the capital of San Luis Potosi, Mexico: manifestation of Neo-Mudéjar elements in civic buildings of the late XIX and early XX century.

• Panelist: Miriam Alejandra García Cuéllar, UAM - Iztapalapa

  • Title: The Arab trade dominance and its presence on the East African coast, XIII - XV centuries.

• Panelist: Ricardo Misael Medina Galván, UAM - Iztapalapa.

  • Title: An approach to the history of Arab immigration in Mexico.

• Panelist: Javier Buenrostro Sánchez, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS).

  • Title: Arab Christians in the Levant. VII- XV centuries.

 

10:30 - 12:30 hrs.

PANEL 15: Religion and Philosophy — Moderates: Manuel Ruiz (Room CIB 2, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas)

• Panelist: José Arturo Saavedra Casco, El Colegio de México.

  • Title: God, the Prophet, the infidels and the relation with animals: The Epic Poem of the Camel and the Gazelle.

• Panelist: Edgar Daniel Maldonado Juárez, FFyL, UNAM.

  • Title: Virtuous City Abu Nasr Al Farabi, a philosophical interpretation.

• Panelist: Roberto Marín Guzmán, University of Costa Rica.

  • Title: Death and Funerary Rites in Islam

• Panelist: Israel Eber Casas, Independiente.

  • Title: Speech of Abd Al Wahhab: Distinguishing between literalism and reinterpretation.

• Panelist: Ángel Horacio Molina, Centro de Estudios Orientales (UNR), Argentina.

  • Title: The last journey: eschatology of shii in the perspective of Mulla Sadra.

• Panelist: Samuel David Zepeda López, FFyL, UNAM.

  • Title: Islam and its possibilities in (with) the philosophy of liberation.

 

 

13:30 - 14:30 hrs.

KEY LECTURE: Philippe Bourmaud, Université Lyon III, "From the League of Nations to the UN" (Room CIB 1, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas).

 

16:00 - 18:00 hrs.

PANEL 16: Diversities of Mexican Islam — Moderates: Camila Pastor (Room CIB 1, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas)

• Panelist: Verónica Torres, The Ohio State University.

  • Title: "I'm Muslim, but also Mexican". Negotiating culture and faith: Challenges  of the Mexicans Muslims in contemporary Mexico.

• Panelist: Lucía Cirianni Salazar, ENAH.

  • Title: Is it better to remain silent? Comments on the study of Sufism.

• Panelist: Miguel A. Fuentes Carreño, El Colegio de México.

  • Title: Ethnographic census of the Muslim population in Mexico: results from the quantitative analysis.

• Panelist: Camila Pastor, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas

  • Title:  Ethnographic census of the Muslim population in Mexico.

 

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Monday, November 10, 2014

 

15:30 - 17:00 hrs.

KEY LECTURE: Elizabeth Picard, IREMAM Aix-en-Provence, "From crisis to crisis, the problematic horizon of the couple Lebanon-Syria" (Alfonso Reyes Auditorium, El Colegio de México).

Quinta Semana Árabe en México
Cultural activities
November 7^th to the 15^th, 2014
Museo Nacional de las Culturas, El Colegio de México, Alianza Francesa de México; Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, UNAM

 

 

 

Monday, November 3, 2014

 

PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION (3 to 7 November ): "The Arab World Today", sponsored by the Embassies of: Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Libya and Morocco (Daniel Cosío Villegas Library, El Colegio de México)

 

STANDS (November 3 to 7): Arab World in Mexico, sponsored by the Embassies of: Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Libya and Morocco (CIDE)

 

 

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Friday, November 7, 2014

 

TEMPORARY EXPOSITION (7 to 15 November): Arab Music instruments (Sala Polivalente, Museo Nacional de las Culturas).

 

13:00 - 14:00

DOCUMENTARY: "Andalusíes", Dir. José Antonio González Alcantud (Sala Intermedia, Museo Nacional de las Culturas)

 

16:00 - 17:00

DOCUMENTARY: "Mur", Dir. Simone Bitton (Sala Intermedia, Museo Nacional de las Culturas)

 

 

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Saturday, November 8, 2014

 

9:00 - 10:30

TOUR (WITH COST): Tour of Arab Gastronomy with Jesús Petlacalco from Patrimonio México (Starts at Museo Nacional de las Culturas)

 

11:30 - 12:00

WORKSHOP (RESERVE YOUR PLACE): "Embroidered Identities. Palestinian Motifs" — In charge of: Andrea Villa, María Velasco and Laura López (Learning Room, Museo Nacional de las Culturas).

 

12:00 - 12:30

WORKSHOP (RESERVE YOUR PLACE): "Art in lines. Notions of Arabic writing" — In charge of: Andrea Villa (Learning Room, Museo Nacional de las Culturas).

 

13:00 - 14:00

CONTEST: "De Arena" Lottery, sponsored by Bazar de Arena, and gastronomic sampling for contestants, sponsored by the Embassy of Egypt (Sala Polivalente, Museo Nacional de las Culturas)

 

16:00 - 17:30

DOCUMENTARY: "The Color of Olives", Dir. Carolina Rivas (Sala Intermedia, Museo Nacional de las Culturas)

 

16:30 - 20:00

"De Arena" BAZAAR (Alianza Francesa Polanco)

 

18:30 - 20:00

CONFERENCE: "Explaining Mahmoud Dayoub", Anne-Marth Hogewoning, Dir. of Galerie Beeld (María Félix Auditorium), Alianza Francesa Polanco)

INAUGURATION: "Body, painting and glances", by Mahmoud Dayoub, sponsored by Galerie Beeld (Gallery, Alianza Francesa Polanco)

 

 

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Sunday, November 9, 2014

 

16:30 - 20:00

"De Arena" BAZAAR (Alianza Francesa Polanco)

 

16:00 - 17:00

STORYTELLERS: "The North also tells" (María Félix Auditorium, Alianza Francesa Polanco)

 

17:00 - 18:00

WORKSHOP: Arabic calligraphy — In charge of: José Reyes (María Félix Auditorium, Alianza Árabe Polanco)

 

18:00 - 19:00

CONCERT: "Baraka" Arab Music Group (María Félix Auditorium, Alianza Francesa Polanco)

 

 

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Monday, November 10, 2014

 

11:00 - 20:00

"De Arena" BAZAAR (Alianza Francesa Polanco)

 

16:00 - 18:00

CAUCUS: Arabic Language and Literature (Fernando Benítez Hall, FCPyS, UNAM)

• Speaker: Dr. Sa'aad Al-Utaibi, Imam Muhammad Bin Saud University.

  • Title: Particularities in the Sharia and its view towards modernity.

• Speaker: Dr. Hassan An-Nami, Imam Muhammad Bin Saud University.

  • Title:  Contributions of the Arabs in Latin America: their achievements in language and literature

• Speaker: Dr. Mariam Saada, Irvine Valley College.

  • Title: Ajamon texts in Andalus.

 

17:00-18:00

CONFERENCE: Embassy of the Republic of Lebanon, H.E Amb. Hicham Hamdan, "Lebanese society: Example of permanent dialogue between civilizations" (Room 5524, El Colegio de México)

 

18:00 - 19:30

PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION: "Art and Emancipation within the Arab Revolutions" — Presented by: Rafael Robles.

BOOK PRESENTATION: Voces, tramas y trayectorias: las protestas populares en Medio Oriente y Norte de África, by Wilda Western, Alejandra Galindo and Indira Bernal — Presented by: Wilda Western; comments from: Moisés Garduño.

(Cafeteria, FCPyS, UNAM)

 

18:00 - 19:00

CONFERENCE: Mónica Carrión, Al-Fanar Foundation, "New Arab cultural expressions as the engine of change" (María Félix Auditorium, Alianza Francesa Polanco)

 

19:00 - 20:00
CONFERENCE: Témoris Grecko, "From the Revolution's Tahrir to the Dictatorship's Tahrir: a Mexican journalist in the Arab Uprisings" (Alianza Francesa Polanco)

 

 

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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

 

11:00 - 20:00

"De Arena" BAZAAR (Alianza Francesa Polanco)

 

17:30 - 19:30

MOVIE: "5 Broken Cameras", Dir: Emat Burnat and Guy Davidi — Comments from: Erika Aguilar, Daniel Abundis and Rafael Robles (Isabel and Ricardo Pozas Hall, FCPyS, UNAM)

 

19:00 - 20:00

CONFERENCE: Antonio Trabulse Kaim, Mexican-Lebanese Cultural Centre, "Lebanese National Identity", sponsored by the Embassy of Lebanon (María Félix Auditorium, Alianza Francesa Polanco)

 

20:00 - 22:00

FILM CYCLE: Arab Glances. "The Mosque", Dir. Daoud Aoulad-Syad. Sponsored by Casa Árabe (María Félix Auditorium, Alianza Francesa Polanco)

 

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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

 

11:00 - 20:00

"De Arena" BAZAAR (Alianza Francesa Polanco)

 

17:00 - 18:00

CONFERENCE: Seyyed Muhammad Shegofteh, Hawza Ilmiyya de Qom, "The return. Life stages towards Eternal Life and the Funerary Rituals in Islam" (Sala Polivalente, Museo Nacional de las Culturas)

 

19:00 - 20:00
PANEL: "The participation of Shi'i women in society" (María Félix Auditorium, Alianza Francesa Polanco)

• Participants: Annette Acevedo Bello and Lizbeth Marquez Villarreal, AMMI A.C.

 

20:00 - 22:00

FILM CYCLE: Arab Glances. "Messages from the Sea", Dir. Daoud Abdel Sayed. Sponsored by Casa Árabe (María Félix Auditorium, Alianza Francesa Polanco)

 

 

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Thursday, November 13, 2014

 

11:00 - 20:00

"De Arena" BAZAAR (Alianza Francesa Polanco)

 

13:00 - 15:00

DOCUMENTARY CYCLE: History of the Middle East — Presented by: Moisés Garduño and Jazmín Trejo (Fernando Benítez Hall, FCPyS, UNAM)

 

19:00 - 20:00

BOOK PRESENTATION: "Concierto de Jerusalén" — Presented by: Fernando Cisneros y Alaeedin Abdul Moula (María Félix Auditorium, Alianza Francesa Polanco)

 

20:00 - 22:00

FILM CYCLE: Arab Glances. "Crayons of Askalan", Dir. Laila Hotait Salas. Sponsored by Casa Árabe (María Félix Auditorium, Alianza Francesa Polanco)

 

 

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Friday, November 14, 2014

11:00 - 20:00

"De Arena" BAZAAR (Alianza Francesa Polanco)

 

13:00 - 15:00

CONFERENCE: Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, H.E Amb. Jalal Kalantari (Room 2247, El Colegio de México)

13:00 - 14:00

MOVIE: "The Syrian Bride", Dir. Eran Riklis (Sala Intermedia, Museo Nacional de las Culturas)

 

13:00 - 14:00

CONFERENCE: Dr. Raja al-Halwani, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, "Towards the solution of a single Palestine State" — Moderates: Shadi Rohana (Ricardo Flores Magón Auditorium, FCPyS, UNAM)

 

16:00 - 17:00

DOCUMENTARY: "Andalusíes", Dir. José Antonio González Alcantud (Sala Intermedia, Museo Nacional de las Culturas)

 

17:00 - 18:00

CONFERENCE: Promoting the Memory in Morocco — Presented by: Sandra Rojo (Library, Museo Nacional de las Culturas)

 

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Saturday, November 15, 2014

 

11:30 - 12:00

WORKSHOP (RESERVE YOUR PLACE): "Embroidered Identities. Palestinian Motifs" — In charge of: Andrea Villa, María Velasco and Laura López (Learning Room, Museo Nacional de las Culturas).

 

12:00 - 12:30

WORKSHOP (RESERVE YOUR PLACE): "Art in lines. Notions of Arabic writing" — In charge of: Andrea Villa (Learning Room, Museo Nacional de las Culturas).

 

12:30 - 13:30

BOOK PRESENTATION: "Anthology of Palestinian poetry" and "La Patria en el corazón" — Presented by: Mohsen Emadi, Carlos López and Luis Pi. Moderates: Alejandra Gómez (Library, Museo Nacional de las Culturas)

 

13:30 - 14:30

SHOW: "Moon's Traveling Navel", with Darbukatépetl musical ensemble y Colectivo Tribaleando (Sala Polivalente, Museo Nacional de las Culturas)

 

17:00 - 18:00

CONFERENCE: Gerardo Taber, curator of Egypt's collections at Museo Nacional de las Culturas, "I'm Egyptian and my art is in me. Graffiti and identity in XXI c. social movements" (Library, Museo Nacional de las Culturas)

 

18:00 - 19:30

INAUGURATION: Aziza Alaoui art exhibition and catering, sponsored by the Embassy of Morocco (Gallery, Alianza Francesa de San Ángel)

 

 

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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

 

12:00 - 14:00

CONFERENCIA: Embassy of the State of Kuwait, H.E. Amb. Sameeh Hayat. (Cuajimalpa Auditorium, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas)

 

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Thursday, November 20, 2014

 

12:00 - 14:00

CONFERENCE: Embassy of the State of Palestine, H.E. Amb. Munjed Saleh. (Cuajimalpa Auditorium, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas)

 

16:00 - 17:00

CONFERENCE: Dr. Abdullah Daou, "Innovation at human service", sponsored by the Embassy of Lebanon. (Room 2247, El Colegio de México)