The Middle East has been the center of the world for millennia, as the starting place of civilization, philosophy and the great monotheistic faiths, but also the battlefield of empires and spiritual beliefs around the world.

It is a fascinating region and although it is now totally current, it has never given up its central position in history. Between 2022 and 2024, **Xavi Vidal ** was traveling through those countries, which are the most conflictive in the world and at the same time and paradoxically the most hospitable, and he will tell us about them, especially about Iraq, about which he has just returned recently after having gone there for the second time and just a few days before the US attack on Iran.

As a result of those trips, a year ago he published "Blood is incombustible", edited by Tushita, his second book, focused on the Middle East and which he will present to us.