By midday at 13 hours, the professor of the Instituto de Ciencias de la Religión of the University of Ez-Zitouna (Tunisia), Iqbal Gharbi, will offer a talk “Voilement et dévoilement: biopouvoir et instrumentalisation du corps de la femme.” The lecture will be held in French with simultaneous interpretation into Spanish.

Iqbal Gharbi is the head of the scientific magazine of the Higher Institute for Islamic Studies of Tanweer and member of the scientific committee of the ‘Michkat’ magazine, of the University of Ez-Zitouna. Some of the most important publications are ‘Des verses satàniques au voile islamique’ (2007) and Considérations su l’image en islam’ (2009). It is important to highlight her research about psychological and social pathologies, anthropology of religion and gender studies with emphasis on the body and sexuality. 

In addition to the academic activities, Iqbal Gharbi has other positions such as president and founder member of the Tunisian League for the Defense of Academic and Creation Freedoms, as well as the Inter-Arab Network for Combating Violence against Women. 

Nadia Ghulam, closes the congress
Nadia Ghulam, co-author and protagonist of the novel “El secreto de mi turbante” will close the First Communication and Biopolitics Congress and will give a presentation on Friday 2, at 19:30 hors, in the Assembly Hall of the Faculty of Language Studies, Translation and Communication.

Nadia Ghulam is co-author, together with Agnès Rotger, and protagonist of the novel “El secreto de mi turbante”, by which they received the Prudenci Bertrana Prize in 2010. The performance of the theatre-documentary piece that now has her own name, ‘Nadia’, directed by Carles Fernández Giua, has been useful to show to the general audience the details of her complicated life in Kabul (Afghanistan) in the worst years of the war.

Nadia Ghulam has also published together with Joan Soler Amigó, the book ‘Cuentos que me curaron’ (Stories that healed me) (2014), a compilation of the stories her mother told her in the hospital during her convalescence due to the injuries caused by a bomb.

In 2016, Nadia published with Javier Diéguez a second novel, ‘La primera estrella de la noche’ (Plaza &Janés, 2016), based in the real facts that tells the daily experiences of Afghan women, in a country that suffers armed conflicts for more than forty years.

Gabriele Del Grande, on Thursday

Gabriele Del Grande (Luca, Italia, 1982), journalist, blogger and film director, has given on Thursday a talk in the framework of the First International Congress “Communication and Biopolitics”. The session has included the projection of his documentary film ‘Io Sto cono la sposa’ (2014), co-directed with Antonio Augugliaro.

The documentary obtained the audience award in the Certamen de Cine de Viajes del Ocejón, the best documentary feature nomination in the David di Donatello, the special nomination to the first docu-film in the Nastro De Argento and one best film soundtrack nomination in the Golden Globe. 

Del Grande founded in 2006 the Observatory of the migratory processes, about which he has written in his blog Fortress Europe, and he has also developed an important study and report about the migratory policies. Furthermore, he is author of Madamou va a morire (2007), Il madre di mezzo (2010) and Roma senza fissa dimora (2009) and he has collaborated with the book Come un uomo sulla tierra (2009).

The programme of the congress is available by clicking here.