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The Mediterranean, the Place where Faces Merge

The Mediterranean is above all a way of being in the world. Mediterraneans, no matter what country they come from, instinctively recognise each other in the similarities of culture and behaviour, or rather temperament.

 21 October 2025

Adnan Özer’s Overflowing Mediterranean: Turkish Poetry in the Back-and-Forth of Myth

Turkish poet Adnan Özer evokes an intimate, ever-changing Mediterranean. His mystical, visceral verse rewrites the myth through exile, desire, and memory.

 21 October 2025

Theatre and the Myth of the Mediterranean: A Talk with Carme Portaceli 

Carme Portaceli highlights theatre as a space for Mediterranean memory and encounter, blending tragedy and humour. Regional artists transform pain into art, preserving tolerance and resilience as a shared identity.

 21 October 2025

Cinema in the Face of the Myths of a Homogeneous Mediterranean

The article explores how cinema shapes migration memory and the Mediterranean imagination, providing a critical space to challenge stereotypes and rethink our shared history in dialogue with Ricard Zapata.

 21 October 2025

Egypt Between Fable and Truth: A Conversation with Filmmaker Sherif El Bendary

Sherif El Bendary’s films challenge the idealized Mediterranean, exposing Egypt’s inequalities. Using magical realism, his cinema reflects marginalized struggles and offers a complex, realistic portrait of the region.

 21 October 2025

Mediterranean Humanism

In this lucid and sensitive article, Héla Béji explores the gradual disillusionment with the Mediterranean myth, which emerged from the enthusiasm of the independence processes. It evokes a dreamed Mediterranean, free and fraternal, before noting i...

 21 October 2025

From Myth to Body: The Sensitive Geography of Elizabeth Grech

Maltese poet Elizabeth Grech leads us through an intimate, symbolic Mediterranean. Her poetry weaves love, exile, and memory through a feminine and resilient vision.

 21 October 2025

A Myth of Harmony and Diversity Under Scrutiny

The new QM seeks to reflect on the Mediterranean myth, both to unmask it and to identify the motives and common points that may lead us to build a new narrative.

 21 October 2025

The Mediterranean. Amid myths, stories and dreams

There are myths that speak of Us, that speak in Us. Such as Europa, this myth that gave its name and face to our continent. It was from Sidon, the current Saida in Lebanon, that the beautiful Europa, daughter of Agenor, was abducted by Zeus, transfor...

 21 October 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