Interview
Ahmed El Attar: Theater as Bridge Between Worlds
Ahmed El Attar makes theater that is difficult to categorize — which is precisely the point. As the founder of…
Interviews
Conversations with filmmakers, musicians, and cultural voices from across Europe and the Mediterranean.
Interview
The Radical Cinema of Yamina Bachir Chouikh
Yamina Bachir Chouikh made the film that Algeria could not stop watching — and could barely stand to watch. Rachida…
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Predrag Matvejevic on the Mediterranean as Metaphor
Predrag Matvejević spent his life arguing that the Mediterranean is not a geography but a civilization — and that this…
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Yamina Benguigui: “Culture Opens the Speech”
Before she became France’s Minister Delegate for Francophonie in 2012, Yamina Benguigui was known for something more subversive: making French…
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Amin Maalouf on Identity, Language, and the Arab-European Divide
Amin Maalouf writes about identity the way a cartographer draws coastlines — aware that every border is an approximation, that…
Interview
Youssef Chahine: “We Have to Walk to Meet the Others”
Youssef Chahine needed no introduction in the Arab world, but in Europe his name still carried the weight of discovery.…