Welcome on MEDiakitab blog. This program aims at sharing information and ressources dedicated to reading and writing practices, from story telling to digital form, in the Euro-Mediterranean space.

MEDiakitab association, located in Marseille, is in charge of administrating the blog. Contents are a reflection of the activities, analysis and knowledge developped by the network members.

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For me, the art of storytelling…

Interview with Hassan El Gueretly, artistic director of El Warsha Company

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Hassan El Gueretly © Nabil Boutros

El Warsha Company began working on popular culture and the tale in 1992. Previously, we were doing adaptations of Western texts, because the Egyptian theater being an avatar of Western theater, we formed a group to choose from the Western heritage what interested us and find a theater [...]

The path of a storyteller in Algeria

Meeting with Djamila Hamitou

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Djamila Hamitou, who are you?

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My name probably comes from the tribe of Hamadiths, one of the first Arab arrived in Algeria. In defeat, facing the Berbers led by Kahina, a part of the tribe descended to the south, another settled in Kabylia, it is the [...]

Digital literacy in education

For a smart use of technology at school

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Anne Bresard is a school librarian who teaches in Grande Bastide, a middle school of Marseille. She is also the contact person for digital issues in the school. Since 2005, she has been involved in the exchange projects with schools in Alexandria that have been possible through the implementation of digital technology using chat meetings [...]

The profession of school librarian

From content selection to digital identities

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Anne Bresard is a school librarian who teaches in Grande Bastide, a middle school of Marseille. She is also the contact person for digital issues in the school. Since 2005, she has been involved in the exchange projects with schools in Alexandria that have been possible through the implementation of digital technology using chat meetings [...]

The library, “a place of power”

The experience of parc library in Brasil

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During the workshop that took place in Marseille, in april 2015, and was dealing with culture in popular areas Véra Saboya introduced her 5 years experience of  providing 4 libraries in the city of Rio de Janeiro by the State of Rio. The programme is supplemented by the opening of 14 other libraries in other [...]

Bubbles and excavations

Comic books were invited to Marseille museums

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At the end of 2013, the City of Marseille (Mediteranean archeology Museum, the department for International and European relation of Marseille) and MEDiakitab association received historians, archeologists, authors and drawers to share and think about fertile connections to be created between fiction and history, imagination and heritage, drawing and archeology, comic books and multimedia. Speakers [...]

Illustration for youth and comic books in Egypt

Two Egyptian artists describe a moving field

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During « Des bulles et des fouilles » meeting, two guest artists, share their view on graphic edition in Egypt. Although their influence are diverse and their style are different, both of them recognize the influence of Egyptian artists from the 1970’s and notice a turning point in Egyptian publishing, in the mid-2000.

Shennawy studied fine arts [...]

Translating in the Mediterranean space, the mapping

Anna Lindh foundation and Transeuropéennes broadcast their survey

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Couverture de “l’état des lieux de la traduction en Méditerranée” © Transeuropéennes et The Anna Lindh Foundation

In 2010, the Anna Lindh Foundation and Transeuropéennes have launched and coordinated a vast mapping of translation in the Mediterranean Area, in partnership with Literature Across Frontiers, the King Abdul Aziz Foundation, the Escuela de Traductores in Toledo, the Next Page Foundation, [...]

BNF digital resources

Virtual exhibitions, games for children, Ipad applications...

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Virtual exhibitions, games for children, Ipad applications, the digital resources of the BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France, French national Library)

The BnF puts on-line exhibitions showed on its premises in Paris. It provides on-line resources, which allow distant audiences to access its collections. [...]

Digital publishing: a chance to take for all the countries?

International Alliance of independent publishers' survey distributed on line

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L’édition numérique dans les pays en développement ©International Alliance of independant publishers

During the summer 2011, the International Alliance of Independent Publishers put on-line an unpublished study about digital publishing. The organisation asked Octavio Kulesz, an Argentinean philosopher, “traditional” publisher having switched to “digital” with a new publishing house, to lead a [...]