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Lecture - Group Discussion with Zaid Al-Lozi

The Ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in Spain, Zaid Al-Lozi, led a lecture-group discussion, entitled "Jordan, a Key Country in the Middle East", on 28th May at the headquarters of the Foundation

Zaid Al Lozi said, among other things, that only by ending the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories can peace and security be achieved in the Middle East. Al Lozi made these statements at a conference symposium entitled "Jordan, A Key Country in the Middle East," which was held at the Jávea Neighbourhood Forum Foundation. "Jordan has always fought for peace, we want peace, but Israel must completely change their attitude," added the ambassador. In his speech he lamented the lack of interest on the part of public and private sectors to invest in his country: "Compared to the more than 1,500 million dollars that France invested last year, Spain has not reached 100 million."

"Adventures and Misadventures of a Middle Eastern Correspondent"

On the 23rd of april, Tomás Alcoverro, correspondent for La Vanguardia in Beirut, Lebanon, was speaking at a conference entitled: "Adventures and misadventures of a Middle Eastern correspondent", in the Javea Neighbourhood Forum facility. He wias speaking reflect on his wide experience as a journalist since 1970, and on his overall view of the Palestine-Israeli conflict.

Tomás Alcoverro, born in Barcelona, is possibly one of the most prestigious of the Spanish journalists at international level, who has covered wars, invasions, revolutions, coup-d’etats, Palestinian intifadas, and the most important issues of one of the areas of the world most in conflict, whose events have wide repercussions for the rest of the world. He has been, and remains, a reference point for all other journalists who want to understand the Middle East and especially for those who wish to develop their work as journalists in areas of conflict.

Participation in the Anna Lindh Forum

The IEMed (The European Institute of the Mediterranean) and the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the dialogue between cultures invited Jávea Neighbourhood Forum to participate in the Anna Lindh Forum which took place at Barcelona’s International Conventions Centre from 4 to 7 March 2010.

The Jávea Neighbourhood Forum took part in two ways. Firstly in “Agora” by attending the following workshops: “Education, intercultural learning and youth”, “Cultural and artistic collaborations” and “Creating spaces of peace and coexistence”.

Guidance, Support and Training for Families with Infirm Dependents

The first talk organised by the Forum’s Friend’s Club was held on 25 February at Jávea’s Casa de Cultura.

About a hundred people came to the Casa de Cultura in Jávea for the first lecture to be organised by the Jávea Neighbourhood Forum’s Friends Club under the title: “Guidance, support and training for families with infirm dependents”. The lecture was given by Antonia Conejo, Doctor in Geriatrics at the La Pedrera Hospital in Denia, and Maite Pascual, Social Worker from the Jávea Social Centre.

Doctor Antonia Conejo is a graduate in geriatrics, and has 16 years’ experience in this speciality. She has been working at the La Pedrera Hospital in Denia for the past 7 years and before that worked in other hospitals.

Maite Pascual has been a Social Worker with Jávea Town Council’s Municipal Care Service for Dependents since September 2007. Before that she worked in other towns.

Urban Restructuring and current territory

Young Architects – Planners of some ten countries of the Euromediterranean region met in Jávea in late November with the aim of sharing knowledge, experiences and proposals for the cultural enrichment of future generations.

It was a professional meeting of architecture - urban planning between youth of the Mediterranean and Middle East area, organized by the Jávea Neighborhood Forum, The Mediterranean House, The Generalitat Valenciana and Jávea’s Town Hall.

Already in the presentation The Generalitat Valenciana and The Mediterranean House agreed on the importance of defending the general consistency in the interventions to prevent each municipality act without considering the hole area.

The different thematic blocks addressed issues of interest such as the analysis of trends in urban planning in recent decades and its influence today, recent experiences at the interior and on the periphery of cities, and experiences of territorial and landscape type.

Each block of the meeting consisted of a general conference, a panel of discussion followed by communications by participants and discussion on the issues.

Exhibition "Spain and the Arabic world: a century of political relations in Pictures"

It will remain open until 13th September.

The Jávea Neighbourhood Forum Foundation, according to its commitment to dialogue and cooperation between the Euromediterranean area and the Middle East, is hosting the exhibition "Spain and the Arabic world: a century of political imagery in" to show the history between Spain and the Arabic world of the last century.

Thanks to enormous effort and interest by the patrons of the Foundation for bringing Javea is a sample that reflects the values of solidarity and cooperation between the Euromediterranean area and the Middle East axis which form the basis of the ideology of the Foundation, the 148 images of the sample belonging to the photographic archive of the Spanish agency EFE, and is organized by Casa Árabe and the Three Cultures Foundation, have come to Javea to collect nearly one hundred years of political history between the two cultures that share a common past and require an effort for the future normalization of relations.

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