Cambrils. Antena del Coneixement de la URV. Conference

Day: Monday, March 22nd, 2010 • 19 pm Venue: Centro Cultural and Occupational Cambrils Talk: Cuisine, culture and mestizaje In charge of Pius Alibek, philologist, writer and restaurateur Iraqi Biography of the speaker Pius Alibek Hermez (Ainkawa, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1955) is a philologist and restoring Iraqi Assyrian ethnicity. He studied English literature at Baghdad and then continued studying in London. Has focused his career towards comparative historical linguistics and the origin and evolution of languages. He arrived in Barcelona in 1981. Was devoted to the teaching of languages, he taught at various schools and also to college, translations for El Periódico de Catalunya and also on the agenda of the European community Manumed dedicated to safeguarding the manuscript heritage of the eastern Mediterranean. She speaks fluent Aramaic, English, Arabic, Kurdish, Catalan and Spanish. Since 1997 Mesopotamia runs the popular restaurant specializes in cuisine from Iraq in the street by Verdi. Assists in program travelers from the Great Anaconda, Catalunya Radio, where space is "Words Traveling", which seeks to how they were born and what has been the evolution of words, especially from the East. For him, language and cuisine are part of the culture, understood as a large tree from which numerous branches out with a common origin. Thus, both in the kitchen as the letters, always trying to find original elements common to their culture of origin and the present, combining the photo, respecting and loving the photo. During the demonstrations against the war of 2003 became a bellwether for the struggle for peace. He is a supporter of democracy and citizenship as forms and values essential for living in society. IN 2004 he received the Medal of Honor in Barcelona. He has translated into Catalan Iaqubian Building, by Alaa Al Aswani, and is the author of Nomadic Roots, published in Catalan by La Campana (Barcelona, 2010).

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