The Arabist and author Juan Castilla Brazales, new director of the Board of Trustees Federico García Lorca | Culture | EUROtoday

The Arabist, author and disseminator Juan Castilla Brazales would be the new director of the Board of Trustees Federico García Lorca. Castilla Brazales, head scientist of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), will occupy a place that has been vacant for a number of years and was about to cope with in early March final yr with out the top being attainable. Then, the Diputación de Granada chosen Antonio Membrilla, a professor of Spanish language and institute literature for the place, who, in 2020, had revealed on his social networks that historic reminiscence was a “hysterical memez.” Although his appointment was already revealed within the corresponding Official Gazette, Membrilla resigned to take possession after just a few days of sturdy controversy for his statements.

Castilla Brazales is a Doctor of Semitic Philology from the University of Granada and along with a researcher he is aware of the administration effectively, since he was director of the School of Arab Studies (EEA) of the CSIC, situated in Granada, from 2005 to 2013. His work as a researcher has at all times been associated to Arabic historiography, the examine of the Andalusian society and, lately, has centered on the Arabing-Granadina documentation and Cataloging and evaluation of epigraphies – Classic Piedra Arabications – of the Alhambra. He has presently expanded the deal with the latter and his analysis revolves round Arab inscriptions within the metropolis of Granada.

The administration and scientific work of Castilla Brazales – which incorporates analysis stays in Iraq, Egypt and Tunisia, scientific publications and the Directorate of National Research Projects and Internationals – is accomplished with an intense disseminating work. The new director of the Lorchian Board of Trustees is a frequent lecturer concerning the Alhambra and the Nasrid world and never solely within the nice scientific conferences, however in homes of tradition and the place associations and different teams summon it. In 2015 he started his side as a novel author and has already revealed three, THE HOUSE OF THE TULIPANES (2015), Melvia (2017) y West of desires (2019).

The Castilla Brazales workforce has taken its time to the Granada Diputación, chargeable for the Lorquiano Board of Trustees. The place was vacant within the spring of 2022 with the retirement of the then director. The Diputación de Granada, chargeable for the establishment, then within the arms of the PSOE, appointed an individual who, as they realized later, couldn’t maintain the place by not being an official. When in 2024 they already had Membrilla, the battle for his or her statements arose. Finally, this November the decision was revealed, which ought to be resolved within the first days of January, to occupy the place. A useful resource of a few of the 12 individuals who introduced their curriculum prevented it from being determined inside the deliberate interval. Now, lastly, it appears that evidently nothing will forestall Castilla Brazales from occupying the place.

This newspaper has tried with out success to gather the opinion of the brand new director, who has most popular to depart “for later” the dialog for having a really busy day. The Professor of Literature on the University of Granada Remedios Sánchez, consulted by this newspaper, has been very happy with the appointment. First, as a result of “the option of an active politician”, in his opinion, “was not positive,” he explains. And additionally, he continues, “because Juan is a person of dialogue and very hardworking, which facilitates the work thinking about the commemorative acts of 27 ″.

García Lorca’s administration in Granada is a complicated matter or, at the very least, very branched. The work of the Federico García Lorca Cultural Board, who now has a director, is basically to handle the Poet’s Museum House in Source Vaqueros, and the Lorquiana Library in the identical city, along with finding out and investigating Federico. Beyond this Board of Trustees, there may be the Federico García Lorca Museum House or Huerta de San Vicente, in its summer time home, within the capital and depending on the City Council, the Federico García Lorca Center, which additionally hosts within the capital the Lorquiano legacy, and directed by a consortium with numerous establishments, the House Museum of Valderrubio, the place Lorca lived for some time, and the home of Bernarda Alba, just a few meters from the latter.