College Veenhuizen - Ahmed Aboutaleb

Name: College Veenhuizen - Ahmed Aboutaleb
Start: 2026-10-18
End: 2026-10-18
Location: Oude Gracht 1, Veenhuizen

took place · 18 Oct 2026

Oude Gracht 1, Veenhuizen

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Ahmed Aboutaleb gives a lecture in Veenhuizen on current affairs.

About: Ahmed Aboutaleb

For fifteen years Aboutaleb led Rotterdam, earning the 2021 World Mayor Award along the way. He now tours the Netherlands with talks built around his memoir 'Thuis', weaving fifty years of personal history into broader questions about migration, citizenship and shared responsibility.

World Mayor Award 2021 (City Mayors Foundation)

years mayor of Rotterdam (2009-2024)

What's new

2026-11
Aboutaleb gives a lecture and book presentation on November 1, 2026 at Cultuurpodium Dorpskerk Huizum in Leeuwarden, exactly fifty years after his arrival in the Netherlands.
2026-10
TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht announces a lecture by Aboutaleb about his memoirs 'Thuis' on October 24, 2026.
2026-01
Aboutaleb delivers the Magister Alvinus lecture on January 30, 2026 in the Martinikerk in Sneek, about leadership and the development of young people in a diverse society.

Tour

RotterdamUtrechtLeeuwardenSneekDen HaagEnschede

Tracks

Thuis (autobiografie, 2025)Candid autobiography about his youth in Morocco, his arrival in the Netherlands and his political career

Droom & daad (politiek essay)Earlier political essay on governance and society

Vertalingen van AdonisTranslated work by Syrian poet Adonis into Dutch

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