The Lebanese Joumana Haddad, writer and feminist activist, opens the Aula Mediterrània cycle

10 October 2018 | Press release

The author of I killed Sherezade, an essay that made her known internationally, opens the Aula Mediterrània 2018/19 cycle of conferences on Thursday, October 18 (6.30 p.m.).

Immigration and refugees, radicalization and sectarian tensions and the socio-political situation in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Jordan are the themes of the 26 sessions of this edition.

Joumana Haddad defends the freedom of work and thought of Arab women, as demonstrated in her renowned essay I killed Sherezade (Editorial Debate, 2011). Director of the cultural magazine Jasad (Cos) and former Head of Culture of the Lebanese daily An Nahar, Haddad is a Lebanese writer and journalist who defends the emancipation and empowerment of women through literature.

She will speak about all this at the inaugural conference of the Aula Mediterrània 2018/2019 cycle of conferences, a session that the IEMed has also included in its program for the Biennial of Pensament ‘Ciutat Oberta’. The event will be held next Thursday, October 18, at 6.30 pm, at the IEMed.

The fifth edition of the Aula Mediterrània conference cycle, which the IEMed co-organizes with more than a dozen university master’s degrees, will offer from October to May 2019, almost weekly, 26 sessions in which both local and international experts address key issues to understand the Mediterranean region today: immigration, integration and refugees, radicalization, jihadism and sectarian tensions, the socio-political situation in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Morocco or Jordan, as well as others of a more literary and historical nature.