Three Cultures Foundation.
Tuesday, 18 February 2014, 19.00.
Free admission until full capacity is reached.
The Fundación Tres Culturas del Mediterráneo presents the book The Muslim Brotherhoodby Sergio Castaño Riaño. The author will be in conversation with the Arabist and professor at the University of Seville, Rafael Valencia Rodríguez.
This book analyses the evolution of the international Muslim Brotherhood movement from its origins to the present day. The history of the different organisations that make up the ideological current founded by Hasan al-Banna allows us to answer the many questions that have arisen in recent years about the Brotherhood, such as its commitment to democratic values, its links with jihadist terrorism and its international character. These questions are explored in this book by examining the activities of the Brotherhood's members and sympathisers in the Middle East and Europe.
Sergio Castaño Riaño
Born in Valladolid in 1976. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Valladolid and a Master's degree in European Integration from the same university, as well as being a researcher at the Institute of European Studies at the University of Valladolid and at the Centre Interdisciplinaire d'étude des Religions et de la Laïcité (CIERL), at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (2012). He is also a member of the Forum of Researchers of the Arab and Muslim World, and a member of the project New European Policies to Face the Arab Spring. A contributor to various media as a specialist in international politics, he currently works as a consultant for an important Saudi family in Spain.
Rafael Valencia Rodríguez
Born in Berlanga (Badajoz) in 1952. He has been an Arabist and lecturer at the University of Seville since 1985, where he teaches courses on the History of al-Andalus, the History of Islam and Andalusian Literature. With a degree in Arabic and Islam from the Central University of Barcelona and a PhD in Philosophy and Letters from the Complutense University of Madrid, he has published more than two hundred works on Arab Seville, the history of al-Andalus, and the Arab world and Islam with
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