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From Myth to Responsibility: When Amin Maalouf Talks to the Mediterranean

Amin Maalouf received the International Catalunya Prize for his work building cultural bridges. He revived the Mediterranean as a crossroads and urged coexistence as a shared duty.

 21 October 2025

From Myth to Responsibility: When Amin Maalouf Talks to the Mediterranean

Amin Maalouf received the International Catalunya Prize for his work building cultural bridges. He revived the Mediterranean as a crossroads and urged coexistence as a shared duty.

 21 October 2025

A Visual Archive of Toni Catany: “La meva Mediterrània” (My Mediterranean)

Toni Catany’s La meva Mediterrània presents an intimate, plural vision of the Mediterranean, beyond stereotypes. His photographic archive reveals the sea’s beauty and complexity, turning landscapes into shared emotions.

 21 October 2025

“Speak and Look”: A Symphony of Women Writers for a New Vision of the Mediterranean

University researcher and North Africa expert Meritxell Joan highlights contemporary writings by women who multiply, strain and twist words to question stereotypes and narrate bodies in motion.

 21 October 2025

Ink that Persists: Palestinian Comics against Oblivion

A visual project by Al Fanar Foundation exploring Palestinian comics as acts of memory and resistance. These works rewrite the Mediterranean narrative through exile, daily life, and the struggle to exist.

 21 October 2025

The Mediterranean, an Actor on the Big Screen

Henda Haouala explores how cinema turns the Mediterranean into a character itself. From Cabiria to The Big Blue, she unveils a mythical, political sea reflecting beauty, conflict, and North–South divides.

 21 October 2025

Tales of a Restless Sea: Documentary Narratives of the Mediterranean

In collaboration with MEDIMED, this selection explores new Mediterranean narratives—migrant and political perspectives rewriting its myths through memory and resistance. A journey across a sea in motion.

 21 October 2025

A Homage to the Mediterranean through Music and Myth

Led by Jordi Savall, Orpheus 21 unites migrant musicians in a journey through Mediterranean memories. From Italy to Syria and Kurdistan, music becomes a dialogue of love, exile, and spirituality.

 21 October 2025

The City in The Islamic World: Medieval Town Planning & The Preservation of Architectural Heritage in Fez

AulaMed article by Said Ennahid, speaker of the Aula Mediterrània 2024-25 lecture series.

 2 May 2025

Repenser l’espace méditerranéen : au-delà des dialogues inter-religeux et interculturels dissertatifs

Raymond Lull exprimait dans une œuvre littéraire délicate et intellectuellement «engagée» son propre refus des frontières doctrinales rigides qui séparaient en son temps des société, écrit Mohamed Arkoun

 3 April 2025