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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Italian high-school students, when they study the making of the Italian State as a unified entity, read in books that Camillo Benso Count of Cavour, prime minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia (and Piedmont), secretly met in July 1858 the French emperor Napoleon III in the town of Plombières, to discuss Piedmont’s new military structure…
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بعد الهجوم التركي الذي استهدف القوات الكردية أو ما تسمى “قوات سوريا الديمقراطية” على الحدود السورية التركية، احتشد العالم ضد تحركات أردوغان لوقف الحرب ضد الأكراد، حيث دعت المجموعات اليسارية في بلدي إيطاليا إلى إنقاذ نموذج روجافا للبلدية الديمقراطية والليبرالية، وذلك إما عن طريق دعوات عن طريق مجموعات الفيسبوك للاحتجاج، أو النداءات الموجهة عبر الصحف…
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You must know by now everything about that man, Maj. Gen. Qassim Soleimani, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps commander killed by the Americans. Never anybody else in recent history has received such a large media coverage worldwide at the beginning of a new year! Even Australian newspapers report daily about his killing and its consequences…
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After the Turkish attack along the Syrian borders against the Kurdish “Syrian Democratic Forces” (SDF), an international mobilization materialized against Erdogan’s move, calling for stopping the war against the Kurds. In my country, Italy, many leftist groups called for saving Rojava’s model of democratic and libertarian municipalism, protest events were posted on Facebook, and the…
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Last night, Russia was kicked out of the World Cup. When the Croatian player Ivan Rakitić scored the winning penalty, the public here in Senegal uttered a joyful cry of satisfaction. I was watching the match in front of a large screen located in the Dakar’s Sacré Cœur district. I could not expect that reaction.…
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The last weeks have been very painful for many activists and human rights defenders. Watching the indiscriminate terror carried out against Syrians in Ghouta while the International Community was distracted or cautious in raising their voice has been another shocking punch in the face for whom he still believes that international human rights law…
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Da un compound superprotetto, circondato da lastroni di cemento incastrati in modo identico a quello del Muro di segregazione israeliano, e serrato da cancelli di ferro e sbarre pesanti quanto un fuoristrada, a Kabul, questa mattina, ascoltavo l’intervento del presidente Trump sull’attacco all’aeroporto militare siriano. In Italia, iniziava la giornata. Provavo strane impressioni: si trattava…
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Cher Paolo, cher frère dans la foi en Jésus-Christ, tu nous manques. Il y a bien longtemps que je voulais t’écrire. Les images désormais quotidiennes d’une Alep dévastée par des bombardements assassins m’ont finalement poussé à prendre plume et encre. Tu nous manques car nous sommes vidés de tout espoir, nous avons baissé les bras…
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Mon cinquantième anniversaire est arrivé. J’ai entendu dire que certains dans un jour pareil ferment la porte de leur maison à clef et ne sortent pas. D’autres, par contre, organisent de grands banquets qui resteront dans les annales. Personnellement, j’ai pensé de vous écrire une lettre. J’ai réfléchi sur quelle langue utiliser, et j’ai pensé…
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Fuck Humanity. [Signed] Aleppo, April 28, 2016. This is what someone wrote on a wall of Aleppo while the recent bombing campaign of al-Asad’s regime was going on without hesitations, with the backing of Russia, after having buried the ceasefire and started doing what they have always wished to do: annihilate people to win territory.…
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L’Italia che incontro attorno alle presentazioni di «Riscatto mediterraneo». A La Spezia arrivo con Ahmed Saʿd al-dīn, agronomo, ma soprattutto attivista politico siriano, membro del Partito della Repubblica, partito siriano indipendente nato in esilio nel 2014. Sarà la Siria oggetto principale degli incontri, in particolare nella severa Sala Dante, insieme alle classi invitate dalla Consulta…
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Je suis d’accord avec le Président de la République française: les attaques terroristes de Paris du 13 novembre dernier sont un acte de guerre. Nous sommes tous profondément bouleversés et attristés. L’État islamique, dans le communiqué diffusé en son nom le lendemain, mentionne la Syrie, reliant ainsi l’opération du commando parisien à l’intervention de l’aviation…
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Sono d’accordo con il presidente della Repubblica francese: gli attacchi terroristici del 13 novembre scorso a Parigi sono un atto di guerra. Siamo tutti spaventati e profondamente addolorati. Lo Stato Islamico, nel comunicato diffuso a suo nome il giorno seguente, cita la Siria, collegando dunque l’operazione del commando parigino all’intervento dell’aviazione francese in Siria. In…
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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.…
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Gianluca Solera 