Five years ago, in an article for Quaderns de la Mediterrània in 2015 entitled “New Perspectives for EuroMed Education: Cross-Cultural Education for Intercultural Citizenship”, I tried to reflect on education in relation to the Barcelona Process from my position as an Arab and Muslim woman scholar engaged in diversity and inclusive citizenship education, and from within the post-Arab-Spring and post-ISIS context my region was witnessing. Today, my reflection comes in the context of two worldwide phenomena, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the #Black_lives_matter movement’s resurgence with the murder of George Floyd. My reflection here does not delve into educational curricula per se but tries to bring to the forefront what, in my opinion, are supposed to be the foundations of and the crucial questions for both intercultural education and Euro-Med neighborhood policies today and for the years to come.

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