The Fundación Tres Culturas del Mediterráneo, the Canadian Embassy in Spain and the Real Instituto Elcano present at the Foundation's headquarters in Seville, on Thursday 28 January at 19:00h, the book Arab Dawn. Arab youth and the demographic dividend they will bring written by Dr. Bessma Momani of the University of Waterloo in Canada. The author will be accompanied by Thierry Desrues, senior scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and associate researcher at the Institut de Recherches et d'Etudes sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman, with whom she will discuss the main objective of the publication: to challenge all the negative assumptions surrounding the Middle East and focus on the positive changes taking place within Arab youth, describing in detail their hidden potential. The talk will be in English and simultaneous translation into Spanish will be provided for attendees.
The author presents us with a generation of young people who are more cosmopolitan, educated, enterprising, creative and respectful than their parents' generation. Dr. Momani will explain how the so-called Arab Spring was a desperate call for help against all the political dysfunctions in the region and how the changes of the future will need an initial effort on the part of the youth, as well as new policies that address them.
Bessma Momani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and the Balsillie School of International Affairs. She is also a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance and Innovation (CIGI) at the Brooking Institute in Washington D.C. as well as a visiting fellow at the Mortara Center at Georgetown University. She has written and co-edited 8 books and around 60 articles on the Middle East, Arab youth, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Thierry Desrues is a CSIC Senior Scientist at the Institute for Advanced Social Studies (IESA). He is an associate researcher at the Institut de Recherches et d'Etudes sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman (IREMAM) and at the Taller de Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos (TEIM) of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He has published scientific articles in Gender Studies, Mediterranean Politics, L'Année du Maghreb, Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée (Muslim Worlds and the Mediterranean), International Journal of Sociology, Journal of International Mediterranean Studies, Heroetc.
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