Casa Asia and the Barcelona City Council have organised the East-West Dialogue once again. After eight years of intense debates regarding conflicts, challenges and objectives established by international relations and people's rights, this edition is structured around the reflection about the role governance should have analysing its meaning and its strategic role in economy, finantial crisis, globalisation, social movements and the international governance system.

140,000 Asian women live in Spain, Asian immigrant women who have lived through the emigration process vulnerabilities: Muslim feminists seeking equality without renouncing to their faith, Asian women defending their access to productive economy and Asian women caregives in Europe who are the breadwinners of the family, with the consequent social stigma in their local societies. Never has women's agenda been so global.

Nadia Ghulam portrays the Afghanistan where she was born and raised, an Afghanistan in war where people struggled and continue struggling to live normality facing difficulties everyday. Her life, which she narrates in the book she jointly wrote with Agnés Rotger, El secret del meu turbant and achieved the Prudenci Bertrana Award in Catalonia, hasn't been easy at all.