Odette Yidi

Executive Director, Institute of Arab Culture of Colombia


Colombian-Palestinian creative cultural producer, passionate educator, and published researcher on topics related to the historic and contemporary connections and relations among Latin America, the Arab world, and the Arab-Latin diaspora. She is the founder and Executive Director of the Institute of Arab Culture of Colombia, a platform to generate intercultural dialogue for development between the regions. She is a member of the Group of Experts of UNESCO’s innovative program “Arab Latinos!”.