TAPRI

Arab-Nordic (Scandinavian) History Seminar:

EXPLORING COMMON HISTORY
Saturday - Sunday 9 - 10 November
AUC, Oriental Hall, Tahrir
9.30 AM Inaguration of the Finnish Peace-Keeping Forces Exhibition,
Future Gallery, AUC, Tahrir
Refreshements will be served

First Day, Saturday 9th of November:

10:00 -10:45 AM Inauguration

Ambassadors of Finland, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands and Denmark.
Director of FIME and Chair of AUC History Dept. Dr. Michael Reimer

Key-note

10:45 AM Dr. Shelagh Weir, “The pioneering work of Finnish anthropologist

Hilma Granqvist in Palestine”.

11:30 AM Coffee Break

11:50 AM Dr. Cecilia Sternmo, “Arab minorities and Islam in Sweden

-A contemporary historical approach”. Swedish Institute in Alex, Depu-
ty Director.
12:45 PM Lunch, AUC

13:45 PM Wessam A. Farag Alieldin, “The quest for Nordic experience in the
history programs at Arab Universities”, Professor of Medieval History,
Mansoura University.

14:30 PM Patricia Berg, “Georg August Wallin and his view on the western
influence in Egypt in the 1840s”.

15:00 PM Sofia Häggman, “In all their clever littleness - The Egyptians and
Egypt according to Georg August Wallin”.

15:30 PM Mia Gröndahl, “Northern eyes on the Arab people - Images of travel,
research and early photo journalism 1890-1956”, Swedish writer and
photographer based in Cairo.
Second Day, Sunday 10th of November:

10:00 AM Prof. Tuomo Melasuo,“Edward Westermarck and other ominent

Finnish scholars on North Africa”,
Tampere Peace Research Institute, the University of Tampere.

11:00 AM Coffee Break

12:00 AM Dr. Petrus Schothorst, “Arab Media and the images of Nordic Coun-
tries”, Al Sawt Al Hurr.

12:50 PM Lunch

13:50 PM Director Jacob Erle, “Examples of contemporary Egyptian-Danish

citizen to citizen dialogue”, Egyptian-Danish Institute.

14:35 PM Mr. Jørgen Bæk Simonsen,“Descriptions of Islam and Muslims by

Danish visitors to the Arab-Muslim World in the late 18th Cen-
tury” Professor at the Department of Cross Cultural and Regional Studies,
University of Copenhagen.

15:30 PM Conclusion and Recommendations

7:30 PM Reception at the Finnish Ambassador’s Residence.

(by invitation only)

Inquiries Dr Said Sadek (FIME representative in Egypt) said.sadek@fime.fi