From the start, the media were present not only to carry out their prime mission of informing, but likewise, in some cases, to accompany the revolts, encourage them and even expand their dimensions and breadth.
A memorable year, 2011 marked a radical rupture with the balances that characterised the post-colonial Euro-Mediterranean Region. What about the cultural dimension in this new horizon?
Turmoil is probably the best characterisation of Mediterranean societies in 2011, when historic political and economic events swept across the region.
The geographic ensemble of the Mediterranean Basin is criss-crossed by tensions and often also misunderstandings between societies on the North and South shores.
The issue of minority rights has cropped up in Euro-Mediterranean relations relatively recently.
EU policy has limited itself until now to waiting to see developments and then starting to act. That seems to be inadequate and could contribute to complicating matters further on.
There are few options the EU could choose to avoid yet another loss of credibility. One is to open up to the various segments of Arab civil society, to follow their discourses and to enter into a critical dialogue with all of them.
Throughout 2011, social media usage continued to grow significantly across the Arab world, coupled with major shifts in usage trends.
The 2012 edition of Mediterra takes the mobilizing potential of the Mediterranean diet as a basis and proposes a multidimensional itinerary that involves sociodemographic, health, ecological, business and neo-economic characteristics.
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