Egypt: The forbidden love of interfaith romances
"We had a five-year romance, but I never even touched her hand," says Tareq, as he remembers his relationship with fellow university student Howaida.
In this section you will find publications, events, good practices, learning activities and resource people in relation to cross-cultural reporting and Media role in shaping perceptions in the EuroMed region.
"We had a five-year romance, but I never even touched her hand," says Tareq, as he remembers his relationship with fellow university student Howaida.
In the first decade of this millennium a new genre arrived on the German literary scene: light-hearted autobiographical novels by successful, second-generation, Turkish German women, Turkish German “chick lit.” Food features significantly in these works, where it can represent both...
The Intercultural Trends Report of the Anna Lindh Foundation, established in 2010, represents a landmark study in cross-cultural trends and social change across Europe and the southern and eastern Mediterranean region. The Report, entering its third edition in 2018, is...
Since its surge in 2014, the migrant and refugee crisis has been a major issue for the European community, not only impacting the geopolitical, economic, societal and humanitarian sectors but also challenging media practices, narratives and framings. This special issue...
The article analyses a particular form of linguistic and cultural diversity performed in two radio magazines, Kantara and Mediterradio, produced as part of transnational media cooperation in the Mediterranean region. The analysis focuses on the interplay between language, discourse and...
This paper focuses on the circulation of long-feature films by women filmmakers produced with Moroccan, Algerian or Tunisian funding, a purposefully small corpus of about 50 films produced over 35 years that raises questions of gender, the national, but also...
David Baddiel's new film The Infidel inspired one Muslim writer to immerse himself in Jewish life – would he enjoy the experience, or are the cultures just too different?
In this body of research and original photographic work to which it responds, I examine the position and connotation of Morocco as a site for artistic inspiration in travel literature, photography and fashion photography in the context of three main...
Something remarkable has been taking place in Egypt. Atheism, a taboo subject that has always lurked on the fringes of Egyptian society, has become the focus of a heated debate