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Alexandria Casablanca Alexandria’s connection to the Maghreb is often overlooked. But the cosmopolitan port city developed through centuries of migration and influence from the western side of the Mediterranean, up until the colonial era and the building of self-centered nation states. Read more

Unavailable and unsanitary 10.11.21 — Habib Battah

Beirut

A sign at the entrance of Kamed El Loz refugee camp in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley promises to solve water issues but residents say they have been abandoned.

The red gold of Tabarka 02.11.21 — Myriam Amri Tunis

In northern Tunisia, seaside Tabarka has played a central role in coral fishing and cross-Mediterranean trade since at least the 15th century. Today, red coral continues to be traded across the sea, despite reef degradation and the informal workings of coral trade networks.

Neo-Ottoman cruise 30.10.21 — Kaya Genç Tripoli LB

In 2010, with great fanfare, Turkey inaugurated a ferry route between Mersin and Lebanon’s Tripoli, a first between the two countries. It was hailed as an important milestone in Turkey’s strategy of renewed engagement with former Ottoman territories. The latter failed but the ferry line managed to survive.

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The Mediterranean is more than a water body. Its shores and inhabitants are interlinked by centuries of exchange.
What happens to the mind and soul when we move places? In times of global immobility and isolation, what does the word migration mean beyond movement?
ماذا يحدث للعقل والروح عندما ننتقل من مكان إلى آخر؟ وفي زمن الجمود والعزلة حول العالم، ما الذي قد تعنيه كلمة الهجرة خارج حدود الحركة والتنقل؟
A neighbour, a person living by our side. We may differ in manners and ideas of how things should be done, but we will always stay closely connected.
More than a tool for reflecting what is, language is also a means of producing the real. It also has subversive potential – the ability to speak new kinds of selves, communities and solidarities into being, to resurrect mute narratives and resuscitate those that are running out of breath.

Visual Stories

In open air: Cinema Khartoum 17.09.12 — Frederique Cifuentes

Khartoum

Khartoum’s old cinema houses live on – and speak about the current and past relationship between the city and those who live in it

Tarlabaşı and me 28.09.14 — Marianna Francese, Jaad Gaillet

Istanbul

Marianna Francese and Jaad Gaillet lived in Istanbul’s Tarlabaşı district. There they met Mustafa, an intriguing character, and produced a documentary.

The coachman 12.03.16 — Sedef Özge

Istanbul

When I first met Koray, on Burgaz island, with a coffee in his hand & a cigarette between his lips, he was grooming the horses slowly & gently.

The stencil attack 17.01.11 — Clément Girardot

Istanbul

Street art is still not well spread in Turkey, but it’s growing fast in Beyoğlu or Kadıköy. Among all techniques, stencil has become very popular.

We built this city 25.09.11 — Mashallah Team

Beirut

Syrian workers in Beirut – dubbed “the phoenix” for its unfaltering ability to rise from the ashes – where the construction and re-construction never ends.