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Number 66
Tuesday April 10 2007


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Wednesday, April 11
Debate on "Europe in the World of the Future"

Hubert Védrine, former Foreign Minister for France, and Josep Piqué, former Foreign Minister for Spain, will take part in the debate held in the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) entitled “Europe in the World of the Future”. The event will be hosted by Senén Florensa, director general of the IEMed, and overseen by Rafael Jorba, a journalist who writes for Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia.

Thursday, April 12
Presentation of The Yacoubian Building,
literary success in the Arab world, in the IEMEd

To mark the presentation of the book The Yacoubian Building (published in Catalan by Edicions de 1984), the IEMed, in collaboration with cultural organisation Casa Árabe, has organised a round table entitled “Egypt through the literary glass”. The event will be attended by the book’s author, Alla Al Aswani, the former Spanish ambassador in Egypt, Pedro López de Aguirrebengoa, and the translator of the book from Arabic to Catalan, Pius Alibek. First published in 2002, The Yacoubian Building was the bestselling book in the Arab world for several years.

Friday, April 13
A book examines agricultural challenges
and opportunities for the Euromediterranean Association

The book La agricultura y la Asociación Euromediterránea: retos y oportunidades (Agriculture and the Euromediterranean Association: Challenges and Opportunities), will be presented at the University of Lleida by Senén Florensa, director general of the IEMed, Josep Maria Jordán, professor of applied economics at the University of Valencia and co-editor of the book, Joan Viñas, rector of the University of Lleida, and Joaquim Llena, agricultural councillor for the Autonomous Government of Catalonia. (View the book online)

Monday, April 16
Inauguration in Barcelona of the " Ramon Llull
and the Meeting of Two Cultures" exhibition

To mark the 700th anniversary of Ramon Llull’s residence in the Algerian city of Béjaïa, the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) has organised an exhibition on Llull’s life, work and thought, with special emphasis on his interest in Muslim and Islamic culture. The "Raimundus, christianus arabicus. Ramon Llull and the Meeting of Two Cultures" exhibition will be inaugurated by the president of the autonomous government of Catalonia, José Montilla, in the exhibition hall of the Royal Academy of Belles Lettres. The exhibition has been on show in Algeria throughout March and will be transferred to Palma de Majorca for the period between the 9th and 27th of May.
New releases
   

afkar/ideas examines the prospects of Turkey’s integration in the EU

 The modernisation of Turkey, the political role of religion and Islam, the role of the security forces, the country’s involvement in the Euromediterranean partnership and above all the relations between Turkey and the EU in the integration process are some of the themes analysed in the latest issue of the magazine afkar/ideas. The magazine also includes an interview with the Turkish Minister for Religious Affairs, Mehmet Aydin.

The magazine, which is published quarterly in both Spanish and French by the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) and the Spanish Foreign Office, also looks at the state of Spanish relations with the Maghreb following the recent royal visit to Algeria and the last High Level Meeting between Spain and Morocco, and includes analytical articles on the role of the US in the Near East or the lessons that can be learnt from the development of the Barcelona Process on the involvement of the USA in Europe and the Mediterranean.

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