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Conference given by Juan Cole, a professor of History at the University of Michigan, and Nesreen El Hachlaf, a lawyer and journalist in Spain, on the occasion of "Arabisms: Festival of young creators", organized by Casa Árabe in its 10th anniversary. The event was moderated by Alfonso Carlos Bolado, director of the Contemporary Islam Library at Edicions Bellaterra.
The youths who were born from 1982 through 2004, referred to as millennials, will become more than 70% of the developed world’s labor force in 2025. Not all groups of adolescents and youths in their twenties create historical movements focusing on their identity as young people, but it appears as though Arab millennials have. Six years ago, an urban youth movement broke onto the scene, given momentum by social and economic malaise, for the discovery of new life experiences, in confrontation with a series of regimes whose only interest lay in perpetuating their own power. But how did they do this? Juan Cole took a look at the cases of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. At the time, people spoke of a contagious effect spreading out from Tahrir Square to Spain’s May 15th movement. Can the Arab experience be compared with that of youths in Spain? Nessrin el Hachlaf delved further into the matter, examining the case of the migrant population residing in Spain and their descendants.
Juan Cole is a public intellectual, a prominent blogger and an essayist, as well as a history professor at the University of Michigan. His most recent work is Los nuevos árabes, juventud y activismo político (2010-2014) (The New Arabs: Youth and activism, 2010-2014, Bellaterra, 2015). He has also written a great deal about Egypt, Iran, Iraq and Southern Asia. He frequently works as an analyst in the US media about current affairs in the Arab and Islamic world. @jricole
Nessrin el Hachlaf has a degree in Law and Journalism and has been a practising lawyer with her own law firm since 2010. She takes part in the Justice Observatory of association Aula de Marruecos en España, which forms part of the Euro-Mediterranean Observatory of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid and the Platform of Professionals and Intellectuals of Moroccan Origin Residing Abroad.
More info: http://en.casaarabe.es/event/arabisms-festival-of-young-creators#13935
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By Casa ÁrabeConference given by Juan Cole, a professor of History at the University of Michigan, and Nesreen El Hachlaf, a lawyer and journalist in Spain, on the occasion of "Arabisms: Festival of young creators", organized by Casa Árabe in its 10th anniversary. The event was moderated by Alfonso Carlos Bolado, director of the Contemporary Islam Library at Edicions Bellaterra.
The youths who were born from 1982 through 2004, referred to as millennials, will become more than 70% of the developed world’s labor force in 2025. Not all groups of adolescents and youths in their twenties create historical movements focusing on their identity as young people, but it appears as though Arab millennials have. Six years ago, an urban youth movement broke onto the scene, given momentum by social and economic malaise, for the discovery of new life experiences, in confrontation with a series of regimes whose only interest lay in perpetuating their own power. But how did they do this? Juan Cole took a look at the cases of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. At the time, people spoke of a contagious effect spreading out from Tahrir Square to Spain’s May 15th movement. Can the Arab experience be compared with that of youths in Spain? Nessrin el Hachlaf delved further into the matter, examining the case of the migrant population residing in Spain and their descendants.
Juan Cole is a public intellectual, a prominent blogger and an essayist, as well as a history professor at the University of Michigan. His most recent work is Los nuevos árabes, juventud y activismo político (2010-2014) (The New Arabs: Youth and activism, 2010-2014, Bellaterra, 2015). He has also written a great deal about Egypt, Iran, Iraq and Southern Asia. He frequently works as an analyst in the US media about current affairs in the Arab and Islamic world. @jricole
Nessrin el Hachlaf has a degree in Law and Journalism and has been a practising lawyer with her own law firm since 2010. She takes part in the Justice Observatory of association Aula de Marruecos en España, which forms part of the Euro-Mediterranean Observatory of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid and the Platform of Professionals and Intellectuals of Moroccan Origin Residing Abroad.
More info: http://en.casaarabe.es/event/arabisms-festival-of-young-creators#13935