The contemporary Mediterranean is facing the challenge of generating a narrative that interweaves the plurality of differences and incorporates the economic, cultural and social vision of a common project. Culture and language, the great forgotten of the political macro-plans, are ways of creating cohesion just when the crisis is exacerbating the visions of segregation between religions and countries. Constructing a solid citizenship that is made visible has become a cultural and political objective: it is necessary to generate discourses that articulate the common values of diversity and the shared challenges to relaunch the Mediterranean project. This must be done in a context of economic failure in the southern European countries and, therefore, a cultural creation is needed that supports the generation of a shared political and social discourse that sets limits on uncontrolled liberalism and promotes the protection of national identities, respect for people’s sovereignty and a profound reflection on the processes of expansion of Wahhabi ideology and radicalisation.

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