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Le Festival de Cinéma Méditerranéen de Tétouan 4-10 giugno 2021

Post author By Veronica Flora
Post date 16 May 2021

Depuis sa création en 1985 par l’association «Amis du Cinéma de Tétouan» (ACT), le Festival de Cinéma Méditerranéen de Tétouan n’a eu de cesse de promouvoir les cinématographies de la mare nostrum et de porter haut les valeurs d’une cinéphilie exigeante et diverse. Connu pour son engagement et sa contribution à la diffusion du cinéma méditerranéen, le festival est d’abord celui d’une ville, Tétouan, terreau des arts qui, de la musique aux arts plastiques, a abrité et continue d’abriter des mouvements artistiques qui connaissent un rayonnement bien au-delà de la région. C’est donc dans cette ville au climat culturel favorable que, tout naturellement, une poignée d’enseignants cinéphiles imagine ce projet, alors même que les ciné-clubs, au sein desquels ils ont été formés, disparaissaient au Maroc.

Rappelons que le festival a accueilli les plus grandes figures du cinéma méditerranéen dont on peut citer à titre d’exemple :

Youssef Chahine (Égypte), Agnès Varda (France), Mohamed Abderrahmane Tazi (Maroc), Lucas Belvaux (Belgique), Faouzi Bensaïdi (Maroc), Gianni Amelio (Italie), Houda Soltane (Égypte), Giuseppe Tornatore (Italie), Nabila Oubaid (Égypte), Jane Birkin (France), Farid Chawki (Égypte), Ismael Ferroukhi (Maroc), Jean-Claude Brisseau (France), Mohamed Miftah (Maroc), Nadia Lotfi (Égypte), Salah Abou Saïf (Égypte), Daoud Oulad Syad (Maroc), Olivier Assayas (France), Boussy (Égypte), André Téchiné (France), Ahmed El Fichaoui (Égypte), Amal Ayouch (Maroc), Georges Chamoune (Liban), Mai Masri (Liban), Katia Gerou (Grèce), Brigitte Rouan (France), Hamid Bennani (Maroc), Kyriaskos Katzourakis (Grèce), Antonio Jiminez Rico (Espagne), Tayfun Pirsmuglo (Turquie), Rachid El Ouali (Maroc), Azzedine Meddour (Algérie), Roberto Midi (Italie), Hind Sabri (Tunisie), Abdelatif Banammar (Tunisie), Luis Berlanga (Espagne), Anne Brochet (France), Michel Khalifi (Palestine), Mouna Wassef (Syrie), Reda Behi (Tunisie), Branko Schmidt (Croatie)…Claudia Cardinale ( Italie ) Imanol Arias’(Espagne) Jillali Ferhati ( Maroc) , Mohamed Chrif Tribak ( Maroc) Farida Belyasid ( Maroc) Ahmed Hilmi (Egypte)

Par rapport à la crise sanitaire et dans l’attente que les choses reviennent à la normale, la 26 édition du 4 au 10 juin est organisée en mode virtuel https://festivaltetouan.org/presentation-2021/

Festival de Cinéma Méditerranéen de Tétouan https://festivaltetouan.org/

Compétitions https://festivaltetouan.org/competitions-2021/

Young people in the Mediterranean

Post author By Veronica Flora
Post date 16 May 2021

Numerous of scientific publications on the subject and a large statistical data base.

POWER2YOUTH aimed at offering a comprehensive multi-level, interdisciplinary and gender-sensitive approach to the understanding of youth in the SEM (South-Eastern Mediterranean) region with a cross-national comparative design (case studies of Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Occupied Palestinian Territories, and Turkey). In particular, it explored the root causes of youth exclusion at three different levels of analysis (macro, meso and micro), while also investigating the role of youth collective and individual agency in challenging different forms of power.

Website POWER2YOUTH. A Comprehensive Approach to the Understanding of Youth Exclusion and the Prospects for Youth-led Change in the South and East Mediterranean

Europe and the Mediterranean Freedom of expression Immigration Social inclusion and fight against discriminations Socio-economic issues and migrations

Mobility Policies in the Mediterranean

Post author By Veronica Flora
Post date 16 May 2021

Title: The EU’S Migration, Asylum and Mobility Policies in the Mediterranean

This MEDRESET Policy Brief summarizes the findings of MEDRESET’s WP7 on migration, mobility and asylum in the Mediterranean and identifies policy implications.

Introduction

Migration, asylum and mobility represent an increasingly contentious field of governance in Euro-Mediterranean relations. In the Mediterranean area, cooperation in this policy field has long been characterized by fundamental divergences of interests and approaches, not only between the northern and southern shores of the Mediterranean, or between (predominantly) sending, transit and receiving countries, but also among institutional and civil society actors on both sides of the Mediterranean.

MEDRESET Work Package 7 (WP7) was aimed: firstly, at developing a deeper knowledge of the diverse perceptions and priorities of different stakeholders with regard to migration; secondly, at evaluating the EU’s policies and role in the field of migration, mobility and asylum in the southern and eastern Mediterranean (SEM) region from the viewpoint of grassroots actors, at both the local and the EU level; and thirdly, at formulating a set of policy recommendations that reflect the perspective of civil societystakeholders, especially from SEM countries, with the purpose of innovating the governance of migration in the Mediterranean.

By adopting a non-Eurocentric approach, and based on extensive empirical research, WP7 found that the EU’s discourse in the migration policy field is informed by two dominant frames – unilateralism and securitization – which translate into largely Eurocentric, securitizing and conditionality-based policies and practices. Moreover, WP7 found that, despite the existence of country-specific issues and different migration policy agendas in the Maghreb and the Middle East, SEM stakeholders in the four target countries (Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey) share a common perception of EU migration policies as abusively and inappropriately restrictive and ineffective, elaborated in a unilateral way and imposed through unbalanced power relations.

With a high level of consensus among themselves, they recommend that the EU radically change its approach to Euro-Mediterranean relations and to migration governance in particular, in order to make it less Eurocentric and security-oriented, and more inclusive, balanced and responsive.

This policy brief describes, firstly, how stakeholders perceive the Mediterranean space and EU practices in it, and, secondly, which alternative policies they recommend.

Document: www.iai.it/sites/default/files/medreset_pb_5.pdf

En arabe: www.iai.it/sites/default/files/medreset_pb_5_ar.pdf

Source: www.iai.it

Cordis: cordis.europa.eu/project/id/693055/it

Environment and climate change Focus Mediterranean and Middle East Socio-economic issues and migrations

The MENA Region in the Global Energy Markets

Post author By Veronica Flora
Post date 16 May 2021

Title: The MENA Region in the Global Energy Markets

Author: Emanuela Menichetti Abdelghani El Gharras Barthélémy Duhamel Sohbet Karbuz

This paper explores how the current dynamics in the energy market sector affect, and are affected by, the interactions between the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and the global order. In particular, it aims to answer the overarching question: “Is MENA peripheral to or embedded in global dynamics in relation to energy?” To do so, the paper builds on the methodology and concept paper issued by the MENARA consortium in November 2017 and particularly seeks to address the research questions identified in the paper. After presenting an overview of the main global and regional energy trends, the paper analyses the current relationships between the key global energy players and the MENA countries at policy, industry and market levels. It discusses the role of critical actors that have an influence on the MENA energy landscape, and identifies the main hotspots for discussion.

Document: www.iai.it/sites/default/files/menara_wp_21.pdf

Source: www.iai.it

Environment and climate change Focus Mediterranean and Middle East Socio-economic issues and migrations

Water and Food Security Strategies in the MENA Region

Post author By Veronica Flora
Post date 14 May 2021

Title: Water and Food Security Strategies in the MENA Region

Author: Martin Keulertz

Food security in the MENA region will become one of the key issues of the 21st century. If insufficiently addressed, it may lead to severe social, environmental, economic and political consequences. Given high population growth across the region and the fact that water could be a bottleneck for agricultural production, the region will have to reform its agricultural sector toward resource-efficient, high-value crop farming systems. Europe can play a key role by promoting trade between the MENA and Europe, by increasing investment in the MENA region for food and water security and by strengthening policy institutions to manage every drop of water in the most efficient manner.

Document: https://www.iai.it/sites/default/files/menara_fn_18.pdf

Source: www.iai.it

Environment and climate change Focus Mediterranean and Middle East

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTIN THE MENA REGION

Post author By Veronica Flora
Post date 14 May 2021
Sticky post

Titolo: Sustainable Development in the MENA Region

Autori: Edgar Göll André Uhl Jakob Zwiers

In the MENA region, the realization of the United Nations General Assembly’s SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) is limited and slow. The priorities given to the seventeen SDGs differ significantly across the region due to the specific needs and situations of each country. Positive changes can be observed, for example for renewable energy, while other important goals remain unattained. Conflicts present a major obstacle for advancement. One step forward would be to establish institutions to concentrate efforts and mobilize action within all segments of society. The EU could support such developments by enhancing peer-to-peer contacts and cooperation.

Allegato: www.iai.it/sites/default/files/menara_fn_20.pdf

Fonte: Istituto Affari Internazionali www.iai.it

Environment and climate change Focus Socio-economic issues and migrations

SoED 2020 : State of Environment and Development in Mediterranean

Post author By Veronica Flora
Post date 14 May 2021

Author United Nations Environment Programme – Mediterranean Action Plan – Plan Bleu

Introduction
Over the last decades, human-induced pressures have increasingly affected the Mediterranean region.
Population growth and unsustainable production and consumption patterns have led to environmental degradation. Despite some progress, economic growth continues to increase resource consumption and carbon emissions. Land- and sea-use change, in particular on the coast, are detrimental to the environment. Exploitation of resources and organisms, pollution and climate change are projected to exacerbate pre-existing fragilities in the Mediterranean, leading to “multiple stresses and systemic
failures” (IPCC, 20141), putting health and livelihoods at risk.
Progress has been achieved in policy responses and actions to manage the Mediterranean more sustainably. Results are positive compared to scenarios with no intervention. However, these results have not been sufficient to reduce the most significant pressures on the environment and to safeguard the Mediterranean for present and future generations while meeting human development needs.
Current trends do not allow achievement of Good Environmental Status (GES) of the Mediterranean Sea by 2020. In line with worldwide trends, “global goals for 2030 and beyond may only be achieved through transformative changes across economic, social, political and technological factors” (IPBES, 20192).
Urgent and collective efforts for transformative change are required to safeguard the Mediterranean environment, while simultaneously fostering human development, taking into account differences between Mediterranean countries. Mediterranean countries have committed to achieve GES of the Mediterranean Sea and coast and more largely the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) under the United Nations 2030 Agenda. A fundamental reorganization of economic and social systems, including changes in paradigms and values, is required to achieve these commitments.

Document planbleu.org/soed/

Website planbleu.org

Africa and the Mediterranean Conflicts Freedom of expression Gender equality Human rights, identity and citizenship Social inclusion and fight against discriminations Socio-economic issues and migrations

Women and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa: Mapping the Field and Addressing Policy Dilemmas at the Post-2011 Juncture

Post author By Veronica Flora
Post date 12 May 2021

Title: Women and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa: Mapping the Field and Addressing Policy Dilemmas at the Post-2011 Juncture

Author: Katerina Dalacoura

This report offers a “map” of the diverse situations of women in the post-2011 MENA region. It shows that there have been tremendous achievements and improvements in the lives of women in health and education but less progress in employment; and that legal inequalities remain widespread, as do limitations on women’s participation in politics and civil society. The report analyses the impact of recent events, particularly the conflicts, but also the political opportunities that came about as a result of the 2011 Arab uprisings. It also touches on the situation of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) individuals, and specifically their mobilization and changing attitudes towards their rights. The report ends by focusing on Western gender policy in the region. It argues for an approach that balances the ethical demands of individual and collective rights, and for a liberal position that respects and supports women’s and LGBT rights without being overly prescriptive about the values and choices that should govern the lives of individuals.

Document: https://www.iai.it/sites/default/files/menara_fr_3.pdf

Source: www.iai.it