Youth, Society, Media & Culture

Burning the Mediterranean: Anarchism and Satire in Southern Thought

Based on the idea that in the Mediterranean we were never "Mediterreaneist" until northern European romantics created this code, in this article we will attempt to show how anarchy and satire are the fundamental features of Mediterranean societies.

Introduction

L’Art de Raymond Lulle comme science universelle

Design et artisanat : liaisons d’espoir possibles

Arab Comics, from Pan-Arabism State Propaganda to Current Irreverence

The first comic in the Arab world, Samer, was published in Egypt in 1952. Since then, the Arab comics industry has followed an uneven path, characterised by the difficulties inherent to the publishing world in the region and also the specific difficu...

Media Jihad

The Daesh media campaign has a distinctive element from other propaganda campaigns in history: it possesses the very powerful weapon of the internet and the social networks, which increase the speed and efficacy of spreading its contents.

Interview with Dima Al Joundi

The Mediterranean, A Mix of Cultures?

In opposition to the uniformity of the language and culture of the Anglo-Saxon world, it is important to reassert the complex and difficult diversity of today's Mediterranean as a virtue, certainly hard to manage, but with its inherent nobility

The Mediterranean, Frontier or Intersection?

Although Mediterraneity, as a collective identity construct, is not confined to a state of precise limits, does not exist, the fantasy of believing ourselves to be Mediteraneans is very attractive.

The Mediterranean: Ten Millennia of Hierarchies and Marginalisation

History, and specifically the discipline of archaeology, allows us to position ourselves with a unique perspective: the long length of processes, reviewing several millennia in which the dynamics of cultural changes and continuities have developed an...

From the Desert to the Sea: the Unusual Presence of Wahhabism in the Mediterranean

Wahhabism was born thousands of kilometres from the Mediterranean shores, in the hostile environment of a desert in the Arabian Peninsula, but a series of geostrategic circumstances have made it an unusual and unexpected presence very close to us.

Romantic Visions of the Mediterranean

El Romanticismo europeo, movimiento artístico de capital importancia en el siglo XIX, se caracteriza por su gran interés por lo pintoresco y lo exótico como motivo de inspiración creadora.