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In her speech, the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Spain, Dr. Hissa Abdulla Ahmed Al-Otaiba, expressed how every December 2 the UAE celebrates the founding of the State, since its establishment in 1971, turning 47 this year. He also announced the end of his Spanish career as the highest representative of his country. He did so during the …

On Friday, November 30, representatives of the Islamic Community in Spain, the Mosque Foundation of Seville, the Mosque Foundation of Granada and the Al Andalus Educational Foundation, had a meeting with Ms. Mercedes Murillo Muñoz, Deputy Director General of Relations with Confessions, of the Ministry of Justice. The meeting was attended by Umar Del Pozo, president of the Islamic Community …

A group of students from the Salesian Institute “Rainerum”, in Bolzano, Italy, visited yesterday the musal-la of the Mosque Foundation of Seville. The visit took place during the recitation of the Koran that takes place on Sunday mornings and is accompanied by coffee and pastries and attended by men, women and children. The students, who are in their last year …

Muslim leaders from Europe and Asia have laid the foundations for a new office that will study the creation of a large mosque in the city of Barcelona. The meeting was convened by the European Muslim Forum, a platform that aims to be an interlocutor that represents the various sensitivities that exist in Islam to promote activities and projects such …

The presentation at the Huelva Provincial Council was attended by the territorial deputy of the Sierra; Ezequiel Ruiz Sánchez, the vice-president of the Mosque Foundation of Seville, Luqman Nieto and the acting mayor of the City Council of Almonaster la Real, Tamara Romero Almonaster; the rich heritage of the Andalusian Legacy in AlmonasterLa Real, will once again be the scene …

“An indisputable reality: Islamophobia in the media” is the title of the 2017 report of the Observatory of Islamophobia in the Media presented on October 2 at the IEMed headquarters in Barcelona, and on October 9 in Madrid at Casa Árabe. Throughout 2017, the Observatory of Islamophobia in the Media analysed daily the information published by six national and regional …

Hajj Khalid Nieto, head of communication at the Seville Mosque Foundation, has inaugurated an exhibition at the International Festival of Plastic Arts in Settat, Morocco, together with Hajj Ahmed Ben Yessef, a famous Moroccan painter based in Spain. This exhibition, called ‘Dialogue of the letter and the brush’, consists of a series of poems, written by Hajj Khalid Nieto, and …