Let's discover together new ways of closeness

28/01/2021
Local: 7:30 pm
Paris: 5:30 pm
National Museum of Qatar Museum Park Street, Doha, QA
Qatar
English

Format of the event: two round-table discussions with a question and answer session with the audience, musical and poetic interludes.
Master of Ceremonies: Fatima Abdulla Al Maadeed, Head of Events, National Museum of Qatar

Roundtable 1: "Rethinking the otherness"

  • Dr. Amal Al Malki, Head of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, HBKU
  • Dr. Jean-François Staszack, Geographer, University of Geneva
  • Dr. Xavier Dectot, Director of the Museum of Orientalism, Doha

2nd round table: "A new found resilience: the impact of the pandemic on the cultural and educational institutions".

  • Maryam Al Saad, Director of International Relations, Karata Cultural Village
  • Cesar Wazen, Director of International Affairs, Qatar University
  • Dr. Pablo Martin De Holan, Dean of HEC Paris in Qatar

Musical and poetic interludes :

  • poems read in French and Arabic from : Sheikh Jassim Bin Mohamad Bin Thani, Fawzi Al Maaluf, Charles Baudelaire, Alfred de Musset and Andrée Chedid
  • Pianist Sonja Park and nay player Yassine Ayari will accompany these poems on a classical and modern repertoire from France and the Middle East.