MAQHA Conversations
Welcome to our virtual café (maqha in Arabic), where we host interesting and engaging conversations!
In the virtual dialogue series MAQHA Conversations, we invite people to explore topics relevant to Europe, West Asia, and North Africa (the EWANA region) with the aim of increasing mutual understanding between the three regions. The topics to be tackled will be relate to culture in its broadest sense, including: spiritual, material, intellectual, and emotional features that characterise societies or groups.
The MAQHA Conversations will be held on a bi-monthly basis and will take the form of closed 90-minutes discussions. In each session, three to four selected speakers will present on the session’s topic followed by a group discussion with the registered participants. Simultaneous translation between Arabic and English will be provided.
We look forward to welcoming you at our MAQHA Conversations! For any questions or suggestions, please contact us at maqha@ewanacenter.org.
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Where Cultures Meet: Cities as Crossroads
This Maqha will look at the role of cities in creating cultural exchange and understanding
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Culture and Peacebuilding: Lessons from Iraq and beyond
This Maqha Conversation looked into the influence of culture on peacebuilding and vice versa
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Reimagining environment(s) in the EWANA region: intersections and perspectives of environmentalism and culture
The first Maqha Conversation of Season two shed light on the relation between environment, culture, and us as humans!
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Sports and culture: creating identity in the EWANA region
Our fifth MAQHA Session discussed the role of sports and culture in the EWANA region. It took place on July 22, 2024.
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Why language is important: the politicisation of gender issues in the EWANA region
Our the fourth Maqha Conversation looked into how language around gender has been used and politicised in the EWANA region.
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Challenges & potentials of Artificial Intelligence in preserving and advancing cultural diversity
In our third Maqha conversations on 11 January at 4 pm CET we discussed the challenges & potentials of Artificial Intelligence in preserving and advancing cultural diversity
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Disinformation and polarisation: how fake-news can shape cultural divides in the EWANA region
The second Maqha Conversation discussed the role of disinformation and fake news in (social) media, and how these interplay with polarisation and cultural divides.
Read MoreMaqha Publications
Maqha Report | Season 1 September 2023 - July 2024
Find all Maqha Conversation reports of S01 in this PDF file:
MAQHA Conversations – Season 1
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Maqha Team
Desirée Custers
Co-Founder & Executive Director (Brussels)
Kiki
Maqha Conversation Catanalyst
Waleed Al-Aghbari
Deputy Executive Director (Cairo)
