Tomorrow Tuesday at 7 p.m., Casa Árabe in Madrid is organising the seventh lecture in the Aula Árabe Universitaria 4 programme, to be given by Marwan Mohammed, a researcher at the CNRS, who will examine the issue of Islamophobia in the debate and political game in France. Admission is free until full capacity is reached, and the event will be held in French and Spanish, with simultaneous interpretation.
“There is a problem with Islam”, was the phrase uttered by former socialist president François Hollande to two French journalists. The majority reaction on the right was to mock his belated lucidity, the far right felt the statement fell short, while on the left of the Socialist Party reactions ranged from indignation to support. This transpartisan consensus on the existence of a ‘Muslim problem’ does not mean that contemporary Islamophobia rests on the same springs among left-wing and right-wing sympathisers. On the contrary, it is by analysing the plurality of the pillars of Islamophobia in France that this political transversality can be understood.
Casa Árabe is organising this seventh conference in the Aula Árabe Universitaria 4 series in collaboration with the Master’s Degree in Advanced Studies on Islam in Contemporary European Society at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). Adil Moustaoui, lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Oriental Studies at the UCM, will present the lecture on behalf of the master’s degree. The session will be moderated by Olivia Orozco, Casa Árabe’s Training and Economics Coordinator.
The conference can also be followed live online on Casa Árabe’s YouTube channel in Spanish. The podcasts will be available later in both languages.
