Aadel Essaadani at IETM Satellite Meeting | Beirut 2016

Since IETM’s last visit to Beirut in 2012 Lebanon became the host country of 1.6 million (more) refugees and Beirut became one of the “twelve art cities of the future”. IETM revisited Beirut, between 6 and 9 October 2016, to rediscover this ever-changing, contradictory capital and reconnect with its thriving cultural scene. With the main focus on Freedom of Expression, the Satellite’s programme thrashed out such crucial topics as mobility, cultural policies, funding, gender equality in the cultural sector, decentralization of culture and more…

Since IETM’s last visit to Beirut in 2012 Lebanon became the host country of 1.6 million (more) refugees and Beirut became one of the “twelve art cities of the future”. IETM revisited Beirut, between 6 and 9 October 2016, to rediscover this ever-changing, contradictory capital and reconnect with its thriving cultural scene. With the main focus on Freedom of Expression, the Satellite’s programme thrashed out such crucial topics as mobility, cultural policies, funding, gender equality in the cultural sector, decentralization of culture and more.

Multifaceted discussions, roundtables, encounters, visits and performances revealed Beirut as a place where, similarly to the rest of the Arab region, artists and cultural operators are reclaiming public space, defying mobility restrictions and persistently making art as a form of resistance. 

The programme was backed by an International Campaign for Freedom of Expression, launched by IETM, with the aim of endorsing on-going reforms of censorship laws in Lebanon and similar campaigns in the South-Mediterranean region. 

More information here. 

The General Coordinator of the Racines Association Aadel Essaadani participated at the meeting as a speaker, for the opening session on Thursday, 6th October according to the following program: 

PROGRAMME

Thursday 6 October 2016
Opening session: Perspectives on freedom of expression | 10:00 – 12:00 
Speakers: Aadel Assaadani, Racines / Arterial Network, Morocco – Basma El Husseiny, Action for Hope, Egypt – Carole Abboud, Actress & producer, C.CAM Production, Lebanon – Hassan Daoud, Writer and journalist, Lebanon – Jalila Bakkar, Actress & playwright, Familia Productions, Tunisia – Lina Khoury, Theatre director, Lebanon – Thomas Engel, ITI Germany, Germany Moderator:Hassan Abbas, Academic and researcher, Syria

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