Mediterraneo, Società Civile, Politica e Interculturalità
Forty-five years. Forty-five years had to wait for a prisoner of the tyrant of Damascus to taste freedom, coming out of the prison of as-Suwayda, just as a rabbit can come out of a magician’s hat. His family did not even know where he was, he had been forgotten by almost everyone, because that is…
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Ospitiamo volentieri questo contributo dell’amico Istico Battistoni, attualmente in Germania, che riflette sulle contraddizioni della politica tedesca, e quindi europea, nei confronti di Israele. Riproduzione su gentile concessione della rivista Transform!Italia. Davanti al Municipio di Berlino, quell’imponente Rathaus di mattoni rossi nel cuore della capitale tedesca, sono state issate otto bandiere: quattro bandiere ucraine una a fianco…
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Nous recevons et publions volontiers cet article d’opinion de l’ami Istico Battistoni portant sur le lien entre le sport et le droit de s’exprimer en tant que citoyens responsables. Bruxelles, 21 juillet 2024 Lorsque le capitaine de l’équipe de France Kylian Mbappé dit qu’il fallait « faire le bon choix » face aux « idées qui divisent », à…
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It was a quite evening, and as usual, once he had finished eating dinner, without abandoning his sitting position, he stretched his legs over a chair to his side. Trade had again been generous to him that night, no doubt Brussels was well served in fact, as plenty of fine delicacies had arrived at his…
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It is so hard to switch the radio off and forget about the developments on the ground, especially since I was there years ago, and am now struggling to imagine the level of destruction. Each hour, each event counts in the tragedy of Gaza. Each piece of writing in Western and Arab magazines deserves a look…
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Israel’s biggest challenge is how to cope with ghost people. The Palestinians, the Palestinian question have been removed since several years from Israel’s political agenda and from the majority of its citizens’ collective soul. Palestinians are simply ghost people. I saw it with my eyes. There are highways connecting Israeli cities with Israeli settlements located…
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L’abaya (en arabe ʿabāyah) est un vêtement traditionnel féminin, qui consiste en une longue robe, ample et couvrante. Il est couramment porté dans les pays arabes, au Maghreb comme au Golfe. Récemment, il a reçu une grande visibilité médiatique suite à l’instruction par le nouveau ministre de l’Éducation nationale français, Mr Gabriel Attal, interdisant le…
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Last week, the European parliament approved an historic bill, the Nature Restoration Law. Through a series of extremely unpredictable voting rounds, the bill was first of all kept alive by a majority of 12 voters only : 324 MEPs voted against the motion to reject the bill en bloc submitted by the conservative forces of the…
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Statement of the Maydan Association following the wreck of a migrants’ ship occurred off the Greek coast last June 14, 2023. The statement below is in EN and FR. More than 80 migrants were reported dead on Wednesday the 14th of June on the coast of Greece, and more than 600 remain missing and are…
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Comune di Cutro, giovedì scorso. Hanno tenuto il Consiglio dei Ministri nella località del naufragio ed hanno inaugurato una targa, su cui sta scritto : « L’Italia onora la memoria delle vittime del naufragio del 26 febbraio 2023, si unisce al dolore delle loro famiglie e dei loro cari. Il governo rinnova il suo massimo impegno per…
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E mentre il Senato si occupava dei balneari, ovvero delle concessioni demaniali marittime ai privati, prorogandole senza applicare il principio comunitario della concorrenza, io attraversavo la pianura Padana da sud a nord, sulla A22. Siamo a metà febbraio. A parte il fatto che i lidi in Italia godono di privilegi, e la concorrenza quando si…
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One week ago, representatives of European social organisations and movements gathered in Florence on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the first European Social Forum, which gathered in Tuscany thousands of people of the anti-, alter-globalisation movement from across the continent. It was the time of the mobilisation against neoliberal policies, and against the…
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This article was published on European Alternatives on October 3, 2022. “Complaining is fine, but some people must have voted her if she’s won the elections!”. Last Tuesday, two days after Italy’s election day, a woman cashier working in one of Florence’s Coop supermarkets blurted out a simple truth while serving a client. It seemed…
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It was only 1987 that the true facts behind the celebrated Stalin’s rule were made public, and The Moscow News published Lenin’s testament, where the founder of Soviet Russia had called for putting Stalin on the sidelines because he was too brutal. Those days, Gorbachev was segretary general of the CPSU’s[1] central committee, function he…
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Ai piedi della salita verso il borgo di Sidi Bou Saïd, ci sta uno striscione plastificato e legato a due pali con scritto na’am, “sì” in arabo. E sotto, una sfilza di promesse: no alla povertà, no alla corruzione, no all’ingiustizia, e via di questo passo. Se uno non sapesse di cosa si trattasse, penserebbe…
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