Joventut, societat, mitjans de comunicació i cultura

The Excity as Collective Imaginary

This article reflects on the productive potential of the unfinished city and on the capacity of photographic visualisation and architectonic imagination to act as tools of transformation of this landscape into an object of thought of alternative urba...

Religious Trends in European Islam

The atrocities and visibility of the Islamic State beyond Syria and Iraq have shed light on the fact that the battle for the true Islam among Muslims is as radical as the battle between “Islam” and “the West.”

Viable Theory of Islamic Reform is Necessary but Insufficient for Political Stability and Social Justice

Islamic reform, political and economic development, social justice and related concerns have a long history in the world at large, and around the Mediterranean region in particular.

The Debate of Ideas within Islam

Houses that Look to the Mediterranean to Learn How to Inhabit and Teach to Design

The Mediterranean is observed by infinite eyes that exploit the beauty and return it in the forms of architecture.

Mediterranean Perceptions, a Long-Lasting Laboratory

Is there a shared imaginary of the Mediterranean? Or rather are ambiguity and rejection the discursive elements that make up this area? The truth is that many of the traditions that each group considers "their own" also belong to "the others" as they...

Notes on the Origin of the Public Space in the West

A public square is an open space. As it is public, it does not belong to anyone in particular or to any one group but to everyone. It is a place of passage where people come to exchange goods and ideas. An empty square symbolises that nobody has been...

Media and Cultural Representation: Visibility, Wahhabism and Inner Exile

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.

Frontières et imaginaires en Méditerranée

L’image de l’espace méditerranéen sur laquelle se fondent les espoirs des peuples qui l’habitent est, de nos jours, déstabilisée par les conflits et les tensions qui y sont présents.

Siria: opiniones de la sociedad civil

“La revolución y sus reivindicaciones, todo lo que empezó en 2011, no ha desaparecido, sino que se ha desarrollado más. La sociedad civil siria tiene ahora peso político y presencia”.

Literatura carcelaria: contrarrelatos y creatividad

Los autores sirios siguen rompiendo el silencio impuesto por el régimen, difundiendo testimonios de sus experiencias de opresión y encarcelamiento político.

Dar testimonio pero, sobre todo, comprender

El cine, fuera de control del régimen y posterior a 2011, cumple la función de documentar, pero también de explicar cómo ha podido Siria llegar a la situación actual.