Mediterraneo, Società Civile, Politica e Interculturalità
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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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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It has always been a fascinating puzzle to me how our brain works, and how memory influences us and the way we look at the surrounding world. We always say that a person with a good memory is better equipped and has better skills to understand what happens around him. Memory is an extraordinary faculty…
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مقالة بقلم جانلوكا سوليرا والبروفسور ليديا لو سكيافو، مؤسسا جمعية ميدان، تم نشرها كمساهمة في قسم جديد ضمن موقع الكتروني الجمعية يضم قصصاً وتعليقات وصوراً وتقاريراً تصف حالة العيش تحت الجائحة وتأثيرها على القضايا المتعلقة والمهمة لميدان. كيف حرك فيروس كورونا جذور الديمقراطية سيُرد عليك بجواب جاهز وموحد عند طرح أي نقاش أو تساؤل حول…
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SabirFest 2018 closed its doors on October 7, only a few days ago, and already it seems it was ages ago. A group of activists from the Mediterranean region, known under the name of Maydan, has been hosted there over the last five years to hold dialogues and debates on the challenges of the region,…
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On May 2008, I was invited by the Turin Book Fair to join a debate on Jerusalem. At the speakers’ table, there were as well a couple of Italian journalists who had just published a stylish book on the Holy City. At the end of the debate, I asked one of them: “When were you…
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A month has passed since the closing of SabirFest 2017 (5 – 8 October 2017), the festival of Mediterranean Culture and Citizenship which is held in Sicily since 2014, and whose I am one of the founders. Many emotional feelings have crossed our hearts those days, and many things have been said, especially at the…
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Ospitiamo un contributo della mia amica Lisa Ariemma [*] su SabirFest 2017 e sul processo Sabir Maydan. Come figlia di emigrati italiani in Canada, Lisa legge la nostra contraddittoria relazione con la vicenda migratoria, costringendoci a pensare oltre le inquietudini del presente, ma forti della storia di mescolanze che ci caratterizza. Attraverso la storia, lo…
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È passato un mese dalla chiusura di SabirFest 2017 (5 – 8 ottobre 2017), il festival di cultura e cittadinanza mediterranea che si tiene in Sicilia dal 2014, e di cui sono co-fondatore. Molte sono state le emozioni vissute, e molte le cose dette, soprattutto ai dialoghi sulla cittadinanza mediterranea, pietra angolare del festival ,che…
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Un lancinant point de douleur sur le côté de l’âme, voilà ce que j’ai ressenti le 21 août dernier lorsque j’ai lu par hasard sur al-Jazeera News la nouvelle de la démolition par les combatants de l’Etat Islamique du monastère de Mār Elyān al-Cheikh, situé à proximité de la petite ville de al-Qaryatain, en Syrie.…
Continua a leggereL’Italia che incontro attorno alle presentazioni di «Riscatto mediterraneo». Sono dovuto ricorrere a liquida.it per trovare certe dichiarazioni di fine d’anno sui profughi. Non sopporto l’ossessiva presenza di questa rete informativa sugli schermi dislocati nelle stazioni ferroviarie, che ti bombardano in tempo reale con frasi dette da qualcuno di (presumibilmente) importante. Sogno stazioni ferroviarie e…
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The Universal Forum of Cultures, a major cultural happening organized by UNESCO and intended to take place every three years in a different city, was supposed to be the cherry on the cake of Naples’ internationalization policy, and occur in 2013. In 2011, the well-known songwriter Roberto Vecchioni was named Universal Forum of Cultures’s president.…
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Première claque La première claque, je la reçois à la vue du Consulat Général d’Italie, surplombé par un immense panneau portant le nom de Bank Al-Iskandariya, un institut financier appartenant au groupe Intesa San Paolo. Avec la Spending Review de l’ancien premier ministre M. Mario Monti, c’est le consulat historique d’une ville qui était aussi…
Continua a leggereL’Italia che incontro attorno alle presentazioni di «Riscatto mediterraneo». Se passate per Siracusa, io l’ho fatto partecipando a Oltremare Festival, andate alla fonte Aretusa, dove, sull’isola di Ortigia su cui è stata edificata la città, sgorga una sorgente sotterranea che si butta a mare. Acqua fresca che d’improvviso si confonde con le acque salate, e…
Continua a leggereL’Italia che incontro attorno alle presentazioni di «Riscatto mediterraneo». Tutti aspettavano il ministro degli Interni, ma questi stava invece a Tunisi. Sono arrivati quantomeno il presidente del Parlamento europeo, la presidentessa della Camera dei deputati, la ministra degli Affari esteri e neo-responsabile della PESC e il viceministro degli Interni. Davanti all’ingresso dell’aeroporto di Lampedusa, stavano…
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Gianluca Solera 