 The Hangar, the sheikh and the Hezbollah. Incursion in the Dahiye...
Isabelle Mayault
Dahiye: the word seems to drain a lot of stigmatisation. In Arabic, the word simply stands for “suburb”. In Lebanon, it designates the southern suburbs of the capital city. Its connotation is all but friendly.
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 Athens Video Art Festival
Call for entries for the Athens Video Art Festival taking place in Greece from the 6th to the 8th of May 2010. Deadline 15th of February.
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 International Story Writing Competition, Marseilles
The Forum Femmes Méditerranée of Marseilles, member of the French network of the Anna Lindh Foundation has been organizing an international short story competition since 1992.
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 Greece: the new Promised Land
Maurizio Dematteis
For those who run away from war, hunger and poverty, Greece seems to be today, the only door to Europe. More than 500 young irregular immigrants hide in the suburbs in the East of Patras, tracked down by police forces. They are waiting to flee to Italy. Reportage among the desperate.
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 Playstations
Istico Battistoni
Towards the end of the second Intifādha, Aluf Benn, a journalist for haaretz.com wrote an article "Playstation Palestine", to indicate the extent to which the Palestinians where part of a scenario in which they did not count any more than the case of a video game.
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 «Tous en Scène» (All on stage), Casablanca
Launch of a theatre adventure for Young people at Sidi Bernoussi, Morocco.
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 Our Memory of the Tragic
Emanuel Vigier
The Averroès Encounters have just come to an end in Marseilles after more than a month of words and images to try to define figures of tragic and draw their contours.
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 Creative Forum for Independent Theatre Groups, Alexandria
The 7th Edition of the Creative Forum for Independent Theatre Groups (Europe-Mediterranean) will take place in Alexandria, Egypt between the 1st and the 10th of February 2010.
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 Istanbul European Culture Capital 2010
Marie Bossaert
Saturday 16th January, Istanbul European Culture Capital 2010 was launched. Overview of an outstandingly rich programme.
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 CineLink 2010 Call for Entries, Sarajevo
The CineLink call for entries for filmmakers from Southeast Europe is open from the 15th of January until the 1st of March 2010.
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 Nessma TV, or the migration of conflict of interests
Marie Bossaert
With Nessma TV, Silvio Berlusconi goes to the conquest of the public of the South of the Mediterranean. But when Khadafi puts his nose in, things become complicated…Review of an affair where private interests and public policies are mixed up.
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 Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
A visual reportage of the 1956 incident in Gaza that left 111 Palestinian refugees dead. By the well-known Maltese cartoonist, Joe Sacco.
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 2nd Edition of AllArtNow, Damascus
Call for submissions for the 2nd Edition of AllArtNow International New Media Art Festival open till the 15th of February 2010.
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 Muslims in Europe: A Report on 11 EU cities, London
Muslims are facing a very critical situation of discrimination in Europe. This is what comes out of the report published quite recently by the Open Society Institute. More than 2 000 interviews and more than 60 target groups questioned in 7 European countries.
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