Freedom to love, to think, to create, to inform... Personal or participatory freedoms, economic autonomy... In this second Ebticar dossier, the cultural independences are told in all ways. This dossier was created with articles from Arablog, inkyfada, Mada Masr, Mashallah News, Maghreb émergent (Radio M) and Vizualizing Impact, projects supported under the Ebticar-Media program.
The territories of the southern Mediterranean shore, although having already gone through difficult times, have never been so precarious and complex as they are currently. Mediterranean citizens have rarely faced similar challenges and tests. Territories to be discovered in this first Ebticar dossier, produced thanks to the contributions by New Syrian Voices, Visualizing Impact, Mashallah News, Mada Masr and Inkyfada...
Egyptian feminists have realised that the only way to deal with the Salafists is by getting together and it works: it seems that the extremists’ attempts to marginalise the feminist movement have helped strengthen it.
A year ago, Babelmed published a vast investigation on youth carried out in 11 Mediterranean countries. Confined youth… with no future… These investigations clearly focused on a whole range of young people whose energies are being wasted and whose hopes are fading away.
How do they live, what are their aspirations? What are the difficulties that they have to face? The vast series of investigations on the 20 to 30 year old generation in the Mediterranean tempts to answer these questions. Second tour around Morocco, Egypt, Italy and Spain.
In France, minds are once again inflamed by th veil issue. This time, it's all about the Burqa, a veil which covers the woman's body entirely. Analysis and reports will be found in this file published in number 29 of the Courrier de l'Atlas review.
Born in 1980, Rami Farah is a comprehensive artist: actor, dancer, choreographer… Together with Rim Al Ali and Hazem Hamoui, he is also one of the three young directors that graduated at the Arab Institute of Film on Amman in Jordan. Rami likes to be behind the camera at times, and others in front of it.
Born in 1973 in Damascus, Syria, Meyar Al Roumi studied photography at the Beaux Arts and followed with cinema at the Paris VIII university and at the FEMIS where he graduated in 2001.
Born in 1972 in Damascus, this self-taught artist accessed the image world by assisting the shootings of the “notables”. He considers cinema as sacred and is partial to experimentation…
Born in 1979, Soudade studied theatre critique in Damascus, then film critique at the Saint Joseph University in Beirut.
Soudade Kaadan, Ammar Al-Beik, Meyar al-Roumi, Rami Farah: four young talented documentary film directors, trained outside their country but who would like to have the possibility to present their works in Syria. Meetings.
When the myth of the “Bel Paese” and of the Italian “brava gente” weathers out in anti-Islamic gasps. From famous journalists Oriana Fallaci or Magdi Allam to Italian new political myths of Islamophobia...A feature.
From Malta, Palestine, Italy or Lebanon, the words of the Mediterraneans in front of the unacceptable massacre of Gaza.
The Gaza Music School launched by the Qattan Foundation was 3 months old when its premises were destroyed by Israel’s bombing campaign.
The "all-out war" against Palestinians in Gaza, more than 80 percent of whom depend on food aid to survive, is being waged with more than bombs and missiles. As Israel continues its chokehold on Gaza's 1.5 million people, humanitarian agencies from the United Nations on down have struggled to bring the most basic aid, including food and medicine, into this "closed military zone."
Congratulations to our journalist Marie Medina from Jerusalem for the Eliav-Sartawi Journalism Award she's been awarded for her article: “When Arab and Jewish Kids go to the same school”.
Extremism. Radicalism. In the middle of these hated concepts stand the acceptable "moderates". Who is a moderate? The Dar-Med project questions these terms with a series of features in the Mediterranean.
They are young but have already dedicated their lives to arts and creation. The last cycle of features on Young Women in the Mediterranean.
In parallel to the to Biennial of Young Artists in Bari, Euro - Mediterranean Forum of Art for Peacewill discuss the burning questions around the Mediterranean creation. Our dossier gives our reader a first glimpse on the debates.
The second cycle of features questioning young Mediterranean girls intheir 20's is addressing the burning issue of women in conflictsituation. What does that mean to live in risky, extremely poor orviolent situations?
Bari, 23, 24 and 25 May 2008In parallel to the to Biennial of Young Artists in Bari, Euro - Mediterranean Forum of Art for Peacewill discuss the burning questions around the Mediterranean creation. Our dossier gives our reader a first glimpse on the debates.
They are called, Amal, Lila, Joëlle, Ghania, Celia, Doris… They are 20 years old and live in the Mediterranean. They accepted to meet our journalists to speak about love....and more. Their answers are part of our first series of features on young women in the Mediterranean.
"In the next years, we will look for both new physical and mental places in the Mediterranean to present and develop our idea of the Love difference pastries"..
"The material we use is sweet, but the idea enclosed in the sweet is our will to meet and understand each other. Love is the real ingredient."
They are called, Amal, Lila, Joëlle, Ghania, Celia, Doris… They are 20 years old and live in the Mediterranean. They accepted to meet our journalists to speak about love....and more. Their answers are part of our first series of features on young women in the Mediterranean.
"I wanted to make a Knafeh which is not a Knafeh. I wanted something that questions Nationalism and food."
Freedom to love, to think, to create, to inform... Personal or participatory freedoms, economic autonomy... In this second Ebticar dossier, the cultural independences are told in all ways. This dossier was created with articles from Arablog, inkyfada, Mada Masr, Mashallah News, Maghreb émergent (Radio M) and Vizualizing Impact, projects supported under the Ebticar-Media program.
Egyptian feminists have realised that the only way to deal with the Salafists is by getting together and it works: it seems that the extremists’ attempts to marginalise the feminist movement have helped strengthen it.
A year ago, Babelmed published a vast investigation on youth carried out in 11 Mediterranean countries. Confined youth… with no future… These investigations clearly focused on a whole range of young people whose energies are being wasted and whose hopes are fading away.
In France, minds are once again inflamed by th veil issue. This time, it's all about the Burqa, a veil which covers the woman's body entirely. Analysis and reports will be found in this file published in number 29 of the Courrier de l'Atlas review.
Born in 1980, Rami Farah is a comprehensive artist: actor, dancer, choreographer… Together with Rim Al Ali and Hazem Hamoui, he is also one of the three young directors that graduated at the Arab Institute of Film on Amman in Jordan. Rami likes to be behind the camera at times, and others in front of it.
Born in 1973 in Damascus, Syria, Meyar Al Roumi studied photography at the Beaux Arts and followed with cinema at the Paris VIII university and at the FEMIS where he graduated in 2001.
Born in 1972 in Damascus, this self-taught artist accessed the image world by assisting the shootings of the “notables”. He considers cinema as sacred and is partial to experimentation…
Born in 1979, Soudade studied theatre critique in Damascus, then film critique at the Saint Joseph University in Beirut.
Soudade Kaadan, Ammar Al-Beik, Meyar al-Roumi, Rami Farah: four young talented documentary film directors, trained outside their country but who would like to have the possibility to present their works in Syria. Meetings.
When the myth of the “Bel Paese” and of the Italian “brava gente” weathers out in anti-Islamic gasps. From famous journalists Oriana Fallaci or Magdi Allam to Italian new political myths of Islamophobia...A feature.
From Malta, Palestine, Italy or Lebanon, the words of the Mediterraneans in front of the unacceptable massacre of Gaza.
The Gaza Music School launched by the Qattan Foundation was 3 months old when its premises were destroyed by Israel’s bombing campaign.
The "all-out war" against Palestinians in Gaza, more than 80 percent of whom depend on food aid to survive, is being waged with more than bombs and missiles. As Israel continues its chokehold on Gaza's 1.5 million people, humanitarian agencies from the United Nations on down have struggled to bring the most basic aid, including food and medicine, into this "closed military zone."
Congratulations to our journalist Marie Medina from Jerusalem for the Eliav-Sartawi Journalism Award she's been awarded for her article: “When Arab and Jewish Kids go to the same school”.
Extremism. Radicalism. In the middle of these hated concepts stand the acceptable "moderates". Who is a moderate? The Dar-Med project questions these terms with a series of features in the Mediterranean.
They are young but have already dedicated their lives to arts and creation. The last cycle of features on Young Women in the Mediterranean.
In parallel to the to Biennial of Young Artists in Bari, Euro - Mediterranean Forum of Art for Peacewill discuss the burning questions around the Mediterranean creation. Our dossier gives our reader a first glimpse on the debates.
The second cycle of features questioning young Mediterranean girls intheir 20's is addressing the burning issue of women in conflictsituation. What does that mean to live in risky, extremely poor orviolent situations?
Bari, 23, 24 and 25 May 2008In parallel to the to Biennial of Young Artists in Bari, Euro - Mediterranean Forum of Art for Peacewill discuss the burning questions around the Mediterranean creation. Our dossier gives our reader a first glimpse on the debates.
They are called, Amal, Lila, Joëlle, Ghania, Celia, Doris… They are 20 years old and live in the Mediterranean. They accepted to meet our journalists to speak about love....and more. Their answers are part of our first series of features on young women in the Mediterranean.
"In the next years, we will look for both new physical and mental places in the Mediterranean to present and develop our idea of the Love difference pastries"..
"The material we use is sweet, but the idea enclosed in the sweet is our will to meet and understand each other. Love is the real ingredient."
They are called, Amal, Lila, Joëlle, Ghania, Celia, Doris… They are 20 years old and live in the Mediterranean. They accepted to meet our journalists to speak about love....and more. Their answers are part of our first series of features on young women in the Mediterranean.
"I wanted to make a Knafeh which is not a Knafeh. I wanted something that questions Nationalism and food."