Mediterraneo, Società Civile, Politica e Interculturalità
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Another slap to the Tunisian Revolution, another stab in the womb of the Arab Spring. The attack to the Museum of Bardo of March 18, 2015, was a political act. Contrary to what several Western media have related, the attack was most probably not orchestrated by ISIS, but by a brigade named ʿAqba Ibn Nāfiʿa,…
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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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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 with numerous casualties in the…
Continua a leggereThis article was published on Babelmed.net (http://eng.babelmed.net/cultura-e-societa/36-mediterraneo/13190-disenchantment.html) Christmas and the end of a year is the time for being a good person, drawing lessons and staying with your closest relatives and friends. Exactly five years ago, I wrote on this magazine an article named “Disgust” to express my embarrassment at the starting of the Israeli…
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The book “Walls, Tears and Z’atar” is now available in Arabic language. The book was presented in Alexandria, Egypt, on the 20th of June with the participation of the famous international writer Alaa Al-Aswani. Book introduction “Palestine doesn’t exist,” said a young, freckle-faced soldier at Kalandia checkpoint as he checked my papers on the road…
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(This article was originally published on Mashallah News, and on BabelMed in French) His nickname is “Black Eyes.” He is 21 years old and joined the Free Syrian Army after months of demonstrating, after the authorities had lost their patience with those young people demanding the fall of the regime. He walks around the al-Mashhad…
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(this article was originally published on European Alternatives, and on Mashallah News, photos by Paulina Raduchowska) Two years after the revolution, everything began again in Alexandria. January 25 2013, a Friday, a day of prayer, was supposed to be the second anniversary of the revolution. But it ended up being a wave of chaos and violence…
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Gianluca Solera 