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Breaking Barriers to Achieve Equality Strengthens Citizenship for Peoples and Nations

“Mediterranean Women Breaking Barriers”, is the third monitoring report devoted to reflecting on what should be considered in the 5th Ministerial Conference “Strengthening the Role of Women in Society”, to be held in Madrid in October 2022.

 19 September 2022

Towards the Next UfM Ministerial Declaration on Women’s Empowerment

The UfM hopes to adopt a new declaration based on three main thematic areas: women’s economic empowerment in contexts of regional crises, gender equality and climate change, and violence against women and girls (VAWG).

 19 September 2022

Violences faites aux femmes : une prise de conscience récente. Quelles réponses législatives et sociétales apporter aux femmes ? Quelles initiatives de la société civile ?

Dans les pays du Maghreb, bien que des efforts aient été faits pour établir des cadres légitimes qui freinent les violences exercées contre les femmes, il reste encore beaucoup à faire pour que les lois soient respectées de manière efficace.

 19 September 2022

Perpetual Journey: On Transformative Voyages and the Path Back Home

Short-story of the 2021 A Sea of Words Youth Literary Contest by the Armenian Berj Dekramanjian.

 30 June 2022

Easy to Hate

Short-story of the 2021 A Sea of Words Youth Literary Contest by the researcher and writer Kristina Stankova.

 30 June 2022

The Tree-Lined Avenue

Short-story of the 2021 A Sea of Words Youth Literary Contest by the poet and writer Qays Wassouf.

 30 June 2022

A Bedouin in Europe

The second awarded short-story of the 2021 A Sea of Words Youth Literary Contest by the Moroccan Mohamed Ben Mbarek.

 29 June 2022

Letters Unwritten

The third awarded short-story of the 2021 A Sea of Words Youth Literary Contest by the Jordanian Mahmoud Jamal Ahmed Mikdadi.

 29 June 2022

In the Footsteps of the Traveling Artists, Souma, Sappho and Azra

The Mediterranean is a comparative cradle of civilisations which, within quite a vast area, have developed new undertakings, especially providing their culture and memory in diverse fields, often expressed through aesthetic elements and also myths, l...

 28 June 2022

Rilke in Spain: the Reencounter with Poetry

Between 1912 and 1913, Rainer Maria Rilke spent a few months in different Spanish cities, on a journey that, in terms of heritage, focused many of the successive approaches of German culture to the “Spanish soul”. In fact, the journey hardly chan...

 28 June 2022

Frugal and Varied Cuisine

A range of traditional cuisines coexist in the Mediterranean that, in their diversity, have common traits and philosophy, the result of the region’s trading and historical cohesion.

 28 June 2022

Collective Identities in the Mediterranean

Based on the example of Beirut, a city in ongoing reconstruction with a multidenominational identity, we can ask ourselves about the construction of a collective identity in the Mediterranean region, a place where today identities are constantly chal...

 28 June 2022