Lead paragraph: In 2012, three Parisian students decided to set up a project on artistic expressions in the Mediterranean, MyMed. Today the project is evolving in the initiative OurMed that is open to the active participation of "artivists" of all Mediterranean countries.

Although unfounded and resulting from ignorance and popular hearsay, prejudices and stereotypes against Romani people are very numerous and still strongly rooted in Italy. Journalists and politicians often contribute to feed them, turning the Roma and Sinti in perfect "scapegoats" to direct the anger and frustration of public opinion, turning it away from the discomforts caused by poor governance and crisis. The reportage by Babelmed.

The mayor of Baia Mare, Romania resists court order to demolish the wall he built around a Roma neighborhood by turning it into an "art project".

With over 400 film submissions, the sixth festival season for ALFILM has begun in December. Now the first films have been chosen for this year's festival’s Official Selection and stories and perspectives of female filmmakers and protagonists are being given a prominent place.

Young Arab Theatre Fund (YATF) has announced its new grants program for artists from/living in the Arab world. Grants for artists is open to applications until the April 1 deadline.

Ibraaz has announced the launch ofPlatform 008, which from November 2014 to April 2015 explores the following question: How might we productively locate North Africa and the Middle East within the context of the so-called Global South?

EU's “Europe as a Global Actor” grant for promoting the European cultural heritage and science is open to submissions until 28 May 2015.

With European Union funding, CFI, the French media cooperation agency, is launching its second EBTICAR-media call for projects in order to support online media development in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.

CEU's summer school, in cooperation with Open Society Foundations, offers a course on Romani identities for graduate students, faculty researchers and practitioners in universities and other institutions from all over the world.

The Universal Forum of Cultures, organized by UNESCO took place between 20-25 October in Naples, in spite of all the organizational setbacks. Organized by Cinema e Diritti association, the festival brought together 30 guests from about 20 countries and hosted films about the most forgotten among the poor and the bravest activists who defy cowardice and violence.

The violent attacks in Iraq and the siege of Kobanê are raising public awareness on the largest stateless people in the world which has turned into a key ally in the anti-jihadist international coalition. Interview with Iraqi Kurdish journalist Adib Fateh Ali.

The Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime report explores motivations, methods and impacts of the increasingly potent and lucrative business of migrant smuggling from Africa to Europe.

The quality and quantity of projects that participated in the final selection of the EBTICAR call for proposals, 8^th and 9^th of July 2014 at the Villa Méditerranée in Marseille (France), offer a clear overview of the richness of digital media in the present Arab world.

The projects participating in the first call for proposals launched by the Ebticar programme confirm the innovative character of online media in the Arab-speaking world. From web radios to micro blogging, they aim to reach out to the most marginalized social actors.

Eleven projects shining with creativity, citizen participation and technical knowledge have been selected by the first call for proposals launched by CFI in the framework of the Ebticar program.

The quality and quantity of projects that participated in the final selection of the EBTICAR call for proposals, 8^th and 9^th of July 2014 at the Villa Méditerranée in Marseille (France), offer a clear overview of the richness of digital media in the present Arab world.

It is difficult to add other things on what happens in Gaza these days, which has already raised the frustration and the disgust of thousands of squares around the world. The same movie is screened: Israeli massive military intervention against Palestinian rocket rainfall on the one hand, and large-scale destruction and numerous casualties in the Strip on the other hand.

Euromed competition “A Sea of Words” looks for young writers with a focus on fight against racist and discriminatory speech online.

Germany is reviewing its regulations in order to discourage false asylum seekers from the Balkans, mainly of Roma origin, knocking at its door. But not all Roma asylum requests are fake.

With European Union funding, CFI, the French media cooperation agency, is launching its first EBTICAR-MEDIA call for proposals for financial support of online media development in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Palestinian territories, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. In partnership with the babelmed.net Mediterranean portal (Italy) and the Samir Kassir and Anna Lindh Foundations (Lebannon and Egypt, respectively), with technical support from France Expertise Internationale.

In her latest solo exhibition 'Cinderella Tales' which runs until 20 March at Mashrabia Gallery, Egyptian artist Shayma Kamel tackles disparities between representation and reality in contemporary Egyptian society.

First of all, do not be overwhelmed by this encyclopedia of 1200 pages, because while on the one hand this “history of relations between Jews and Muslims, from its origins to the present day” constitutes a colossal-sum, on the other hand it is a tumultuous journey of knowledge. Interview with Benjamin Stora, co- director of the work.

Arab Women's Film Festival, the annual global film festival that show cases a select variety of films in which the Arab woman stands central, will take place between 7-9 March 2014 in the Hague.

After a successful first edition, the European Union's Euromed Audiovisual III programme is now launching the second edition of its MADE in MED short film contest. Candidates may submit their short films before March 28 for a chance to take part in the Cannes International Film Festival's Short Film Corner.

21st edition of the Al Bustan Festival, the international festival of music and the performing arts in Lebanon takes place from 18 February to 23 March. The festival hosts more than thirty performances over a five week period every year.

Yemeni visual artist, writer and film director Ibi Ibrahim’s thought provoking works created in reaction to his conservative Islamic upbringing, will be shown in London from 28 February as part of the Art14 London Art Fair.

Eugenia Maximova,  the most interesting representatives of Balkan and Eastern-European contemporary photography, has entered hundreds of houses in the Balkans, asking only one thing: show me the kitchen.

The suspicious death of a 14 year-old child bride in the southeast Turkey and a proposal to ban child marriages in Yemen brought under the spotlights the phenomenon that devastates the lives of 67 million girls, mostly living in the “peripheries of the world”.

For years, hundreds of artists all over the world create their works in the urban space. A complex phenomenon that continues to expand, explains Simone Palotta, curator of public and urban art, and artistic director of WALLS. Interview by Babelmed.

Two towns in a mirror image, one in Turkey and the other in Greece. Birgi and Dimitsana are “The other town” – the prize-winning documentary by the Turkish film director Nefin Dinc.