Transcultural Iconography
Towards an Understanding of Images in Globalized Communication
Rabat, October 28-29, 2006

Congress in the framework of the Living Globality exchange program for culture journalists from the Arab world and Germany, in cooperation with the Goethe Institute Rabat.

Saturday, October 28

10:00 – 13:00: (internal)          

Welcome and Opening by 
Dieter Strauss, Director Goethe-Institute Rabat
Kirsten Maas, Director Heinrich Böll - Foundation, Middle East Office Beirut

Workshop topic 1 (internal)
“Images as means – the case of the Danish cartoons of the Prophet”
 Input: Azzouz Tnifass (Rabat), Hans Belting (Karlsruhe / Vienna), Alia Rayyan (Ramallah/Berlin),

Moderation: Thomas Hartmann (Berlin)

14:.30 –  16:30: 

Workshop topic 2 
“The role of images during the Libanon war in 2006”
Input: Maher Abi Samra (Beirut), Yassin Adnan (Marrakech), Karin Kails (Berlin)

Moderation: Layla Al-Zubaidi (Beirut)

17:00 – 18:00: (public) 

Cinemayat Project “Documenting daily life during  the Lebanon war” and screening of short films, presented by Maher Abi Samra (Beirut)
 

18:00 – 20:00: (public)

“Transcultural Iconography - the variety of the perception of images”,
Panel discussion with an introduction by Hans Belting (Karlsruhe/Vienna), Azzouz Tnifass (Rabat), Mulay Driss (Rabat), and Maher Abi Samra (Beirut)
 Moderation: Yassin Adnan (Marrakesch)

Sunday, October 29

10:00 – 12:30: (internal)

Workshop topic 3
 “Transcultural iconography and experiences of the journalists from the Arab world during their stay in Germany”, with Mayssa Awad (Beirut), Hadeel Karkar (Ramallah), Youssef Rakha (Cairo) and Yacine Hirèche (Alger)