Youth, Society, Media & Culture

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.

Mediterranean, Fragmented Images

Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation, Between Regional Disarray and the Search for Common Interests

Europe has vital interests in the southern Mediterranean region, such as stability or access to its markets and energy sources.

“Wa Habibi” Syria 2012-2015. Photographs By Carole Alfarah

The exhibition Wa Habibi curated by María Santoyo, presents a selection of images taken between 2012 and 2015, in successive trips to the country that the author was forced to leave.

Cartographies of a Non-Place. The Mediterranean as a Space of Passage

The great migration crisis of recent times has reasserted the sea as a synonym of promise, passage and uncertainty, a non-place established as the home of uprooting and future.

Diasporic Sexualities and Identities in French-Maghrebian Creation

The socio-political and cultural complexity of Maghrebrian countries means that the presence of sexualities considered marginal in artistic-literary production continues to be anecdotal.

The Middle East through Comics: From the Reconstruction of Memory to Bridges between Civilisations

In the two past decades, the portrayal of the eastern Mediterranean as an area of conflict has attracted special attention from the world of comics through the works of graphic novel artists such as Marjane Satrapi, Zeina Abirached, Riad Satouff, and...

Dialogue interreligieux et interculturel

Dialogue interreligieux contre les extrémismes

« La réponse au fondamentalisme doit être la reconnaissance de la diversité culturelle, linguistique, politique, philosophique et éthique. Le dialogue interreligieux doit partir de la reconnaissance de l’autre ».