Youth, Society, Media & Culture

Light of Eternity

In a world where the population of our cities does nothing but increase, our societies become more and more urbanized and, in a certain way less linked with nature and with our roots.

Istrian Spring

The Istrian peninsula has been the home of many peoples, cultures and religions. It has formed part of the Republic of Venice, the Austro-Hungarian Empire or Yugoslavia.

Adriatic Peculiarities: a Case of “Poemetto Buffonesco” from the Early 16th Century by Zuan Polo Leopardi

The Adriatic Sea, like a small Mediterranean, is a weave of various and diverse regions with their peculiarities, which continuously intermix and enrich each other.

Juifs d’Algérie (1830-1962) : Une histoire entre mémoire et liens intimes

Les études relatives aux juifs d’Algérie durant l’époque coloniale (1830-1962) sont, pour la plupart, assumées par des auteurs algériens et juifs dont la démarche est double : l’objet de leur recherche est à la fois ce qui est advenu glo...

If I Should Forget You, Thessaloniki…

In the 15th century, the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula began a diaspora after the Edict of Expulsion enforced by the Catholic Monarchs. Beyazid, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, offered hospitality to these Sephardic Jews, who settled in cities such...

Genealogy, Memory and Oblivion: the Case of the Valentinian and Tusculan Dynasties

Very often, the study of history focuses on researching only what happened, its causes, the sequence of the events and their consequences.

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Philosophy, Modernity and Revolution in Egypt

In the history of Egypt, philosophy and modernity have always gone hand in hand. To analyse the events in the country's latest revolution in 2011, we must review the rich philosophical tradition that has always accompanied Egyptian revolutions.

Interview à Tassadit Yacine

Tassadit Yacine, directrice d’études à l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Socailes, est une anthropologue algérienne qui a choisi de travailler sur le monde berbère.

La mémoire féminine des années de plomb

Des années 1960 aux années 1980, le Maroc a connu une période au cours de laquelle la torture était utilisée par le régime autoritaire du roi Hassan II contre tous ses opposants.

Le retour des morts

Dans ce récit, l’artiste-écrivain libanaise Nadine Abou Zaki recrée le scénario de la guerre qui a opposé Israël et le Hezbollah.

Women Recount History

When women of the southern and eastern Mediterranean are discussed, the stereotype is that they are submissive and illiterate, but this is not how we saw women on the streets of Egypt, Tunisia or Libya during the Arab Spring in 2011.