INTERCULTURAL AFFAIRS
Tracking the Revolutionary Mood
Dalia Mogahed / Foreign Policy
Egyptians' views of their political process reflect this optimism. Although many Americans -- and some Egyptian activists -- argue that little has changed in Egypt, most Egyptians see things... Read more
Tunisia's Islamist Party Slams Anti-Semitic Chants
Bouazza Ben Bouazza and Paul Shemm / Huffington Post
The head of Tunisia's moderate Islamic party condemned anti-Semitic slogans chanted Monday by a handful of ultraconservative Muslims during the arrival of a top Hamas official that have alarmed the... Read more
What Happened to My Revolution
Sarah A. Topol / Foreign Policy
Five influential Egyptian protesters look back on a tumultuous year... Read more
President Marzouki Meets With Leaders of Three Faiths
Kouichi Shirayanagi/Tunisia Live.net
President Moncef Marzouki welcomed leaders from Tunisia’s three religious faiths to the Carthage Presidential Palace, on December 19th. The Mufti of the Republic, the Chief Rabbi of Tunisia and the... Read more
Que veulent les Arabes?
Mansoor Moaddel/Project Syndicate
Il y a un an de cela, le vendeur de rue tunisien Mohamed Bouazizi s'immolait, ce qui eut pour effet de déclencher une vague de protestations populaires qui s'est propagée à travers le monde arabe... Read more
We Are Here and That Is How It Should Be!
Margret Köhler/Qantara
In their films, German directors of Turkish descent no longer emphasise the feeling of being alienated and foreign, as was the case in the 1970s, 80s and 90s... Read more
The skateboarders bringing peace to Tunisia
Jake Hanrahan/The Guardian
How do you bring people together in the immediate aftermath of a revolution? Meet the Bedouins, the arty skate gang which commandeered an abandoned mansion in Tunisia to promote peace in the wake... Read more
Les joies et colères des murs en Libye
Ben Boubakar Youssef /Babelmed
Chose inimaginable il y a encore un an, sous le régime du colonel Kadhafi, les murs de Tripoli s'expriment comme ils ne l'ont jamais fait. Graffitis, dessins et toiles de peinture ornent les... Read more
عام 2011 في العالم العربي: تغيير نستطيع الإيمان به
Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan
Regionally and globally we are coming to the end of a significant year. Manifold "awakenings" have altered the strategic, social and political context of a region I refer to as "West Asia North... Read more
Arab revolts provide great inspiration to political cartoonists
Rita Daou/Middle East Online
From Tunisia's Ben Ali, to Egypt's Mubarak, Libya's Gathafi, all become fair game for caricaturists long muzzled in Arab region. The Arab revolutions have provided great fodder for political... Read more
Choosing not to Choose
Raghda Butros/7iber.com
When I was four or five, I was plagued by a question that Arab adults love to torment children with: "who do you love more, your mother or your father?" This is a question for which there is no... Read more
IN FOCUS: EDUCATION AND THE ARAB SPRING
Will the Arab Spring Lead to a Revolution in Education?
Muhammad Faour/Foreign Policy
Emerging democracies are fragile entities that need the support of dramatic reforms beyond the political realm. With publics in Egypt, Tunisia, and other Arab countries pushing for political and... Read more
Education for All: Three New Year's wishes
Pauline Rose, Director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report
As the 2015 deadline for the Education for All goals fast approaches - and the global economic crisis threatens to slow progress - here are the three things we most want to happen in 2012... Read more
Europe's woolly thinking about how to aid educational reform in the Arab world
Ronald Sultana/Europes World
European governments, the EU and international organisations all agree better education is key to the future of Arab countries. But Ronald G. Sultana warns that so far no coherent strategy has emerged... Read more
Democracy starts at school-How political philosophy has relevance across the curriculum
Mike Gershon/Guardian
Citizenship is, to my mind, vital. I must declare an interest here – I trained in the subject - but nonetheless, it is surely imprudent not to instruct our nation's youth in the democratic inheritance... Read more
الربيع العربي وإصلاح التعليم
أحمد أبودقة
بعد مضي عام على بدأ "الربيع العربي" يتطلع الكثيرين إلى ما بعد هذه المرحلة بعين الترقب والحيرة، وتطرح تساؤلات حول قدرة البناء التعليمي والتنموي العربي على عبور مرحلة الإصلاح بسلام والخروج من مأزق السلطات القمعية إلى مستقبل مليء بالحرية والتنمية الحقيقية. Read more
Sommet WISE à Doha : comment réformer le système éducatif dans les pays arabes?
Euronews
Changer les societes, changer l'education, c'est le thème retenu par le WISE, le sommet mondial de l'innovation pour l'éducation, qui s'est tenu du 1er au 3 novembre au Qatar. En toile de fond, la question... Read more
LIBRARY
Education for Citizenship in the Arab World: Key to the Future
Muhammad Faour, Marwan Muasher/The Carnegie Papers
Any romantic notions in the West that the 2011 Arab uprisings could create instantaneous democracy in countries that have succeeded at toppling their leaders are already shattering. In the... Read more
Intercultural and democratic citizenship education
Anna Lindh Foundation
An overview of the situation of intercultural and democratic citizenship education in a number of Euromed countries provided by the participants to the Alexandria Education Convention (30-31 October 2011)... Read more
Religion and Citizenship Education in Europe
Kevin Williams, Helle Hinge and Bodil Liljefors Persson / CiCe Network Working Group
This document examines some of the theoretical and practical issues involved in responding to the religious dimension of citizenship. The first part examines the relationship between religion... Read more
Global education guidelines
North-South Center / Council of Europe
The Global Education guidelines is meant to be a pedagogical tool to support educators from formal and non-formal systems to understand and put into practice global education activities in... Read more
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EUROMED MEDIA REVIEW
U.N. Arab-European draft resolution on Syria to stress need to solve crisis peacefully
Al Arabiya
The latest Arab-European draft resolution on Syria will be distributed by Morocco among the members of the U.N. Security Council on Friday, sources close to Al Arabiya said... Read more
Round-table debates highlight the role of pluralism in contemporary societies
Anna Lindh Foundation
On the occasion of the visit to Egypt of the distinguished Spanish philosopher Adela Cortina two events were organised in the Cairo Opera House and in the .... Read more
Commissioner Štefan Füle, One year after the Arab spring
IEWI News
We have launched the Civil Society Facility last September. Work continues on the establishment of the European Endowment for Democracy. The Commission has also... Read more
Departing UfM Secretary General bids farewell to Spanish hosts
ENPI Info Centre
Youssef Amrani, the Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean, has bid farewell to the Spanish Prime Minister and the president of the government... Read more
Libri: giovane marocchina vince concorso "Un mare di parole"
ANSA Med
La giovane Hanane Oulaillah-Jazouani, di Casablanca in Marocco, ha vinto il primo premio del concorso "Un mare di parole". Si tratta di un concorso... Read more
EU €4.8 million joint programme to strengthen democratic reform in the Southern Mediterranean countries
StarAfrica.com
The European Union and the Council of Europe today signed a €4.8 million joint programme to strengthen democratic reform in the Southern Mediterranean... Read more
King receives EU envoy
Jordan News Agency
His Majesty King Abdullah II on Wednesday met with European Union Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean region, Bernardino Leon and... Read more
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