March 2017

The Sangalli Istitute is this year partner of the Middle East Now 2017, the Festival of cinema and contemporary culture on the Middle East, which will take place in Florence from 4th to 9th April 2017, with an intense and particularly interesting program of movies and public talks. Ferial Mouhanna, who is a sociologist at Damascus University in Syria and member of the scientific committee of the new series of book of our Institute, will participate on Saturday 8th April, 7.30 pm, at the Cinema La Compagnia of Florence, to the launch of the last book of Alberto Negri (Il Sole 24 Ore), ‘Il musulmano errante. Storia degli alauiti e dei misteri del Medio Oriente’ (‘The errant Muslim. History of Alaouites and the mysteries of the Middle East’), Rosenberg & Selliers 2017; and to the talk on Sunday 9th April, same place, 11 am, ‘Toward a new clash of civilizations? The Middle Eastern chaos face to the Trump tsunami’.

The Sangalli Institute is pleased to announce a series of conferences on ‘Women and veils among cultures and religions’: the first debate will take place next Thursday 30th March at 5.30 pm in our headquarters. Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli and Anna Vanzan will discuss upon the tradition of the veil in Middle Ages and Early Modern Western Europe and in the contemporary Middle Eastern area, according to their books ‘A capo coperto. Storie di donne e veli’, il Mulino 2016; and ‘Primavere rosa. Rivoluzioni e donne in Medio Oriente’, Il Libraccio 2013. Download here the program for more details.