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This Friday, May 10, at 7:30 p.m., at the Cajamurcia Foundation, at the Pedreño Palace, the Much More May Festival is presented in collaboration with Cartagena. Think the philosopher and essayist Santiago Alba Rico. Visit Cartagena to talk about 'The islamophobic danger and institutional responsibility ', one of the issues that comes directly to the theme of the edition of this 2019: The Face of the Other.

Art and Hospitality.

In the words of Alba Rico:

"Just look at the history to assess the dangers of this construction of an" internal enemy. "It was done in the last century with the Jews and is still done, on a much smaller scale, with women or homosexuals. dead and many dramatic resistances today has imposed a politically correct discourse that happily represses anti-Semitic, macho or homophobic statements of our politicians and our media.In the case of Islamophobia, the exact opposite happens: institutions, leaders and the journalists who naturalize - as happened for centuries with Jews, women and homosexuals - this "racist" rejection towards the Muslims If we talk about Spain, a country where complaints of Islamophobia have increased from 2014 to 500%, it is very necessary to warn , before it's too late, about this institutional responsibility. "

It will be presented by Pilar Garrido, Professor of the Arab and Islamic Studies Department in the Department of French, Italian, Romance and Arabic Language of the University of Murcia

Attendance is free until full capacity is reached

SANTIAGO ALBA RICO

Santiago Alba Rico (Madrid, 1960) studied philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid.

Between 1984 and 1991 he was the scriptwriter of three Spanish television programs (the well-known La Bola de Cristal, among them).

He has published more than fifteen books, especially essays, but also theater and children's stories.

In 2015, he published in Icaria 'Islamophobia: We, the others, fear'.

Among his latest books are: 'Can we continue to be left ?: Pamphlet itself minor' was published, in 2014, in the Pollens publishing house;

'To be or not to be (a body)', published by Seix Barral, in 2017;

'Reading with children', published by Random House, in 2016, (reissue of a previous publication of 2007);

'Nobody is safe with a book in their hands', published in 2018 by La Catarata.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena