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The flying carpet discovering the Red Sea

cdussol — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 15:23:14 +0000

« The flying carpet » is an educational kit created and produced by « Bokra Sawa », in partnership with Ecomers centre, in Nice and CEAlex and funded by Region PACA. The objective is to raise young people awareness of ecology and history of the the Red Sea opening on the Mediterranean Sea. The educational [...]

The librarian in charge of Alexandria book festival invited in Marseille

cdussol — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 07:26:26 +0000

Mona Helmy, who is in charge of Alexandria book festival and intellectual propriety in Bibliotheca Alexandrina has been invited by the City of Marseille to discover the corridors and the lights of patrimony and book culture. The two months stay, coordinated by MEDiakitab association, is made up of stays in several public structures (Marseille history [...]

HAKAYA

cdussol — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:24:51 +0000

Hakaya is a euro-Arab project that was created in 2006 to celebrate the art of « story telling » in theatre and to promote art, reading and writing, for identity building and intercultural dialogue.

Hakaya project gathers artists, historians, story tellers and instructors through a network, residences, workshops and an itinerant festival in order to [...]

Three Alexandrian school librarians in Marseille

cdussol — Wed, 30 May 2012 13:35:53 +0000

Safinaz, Mirna et Safinaz © ZINC-CD

After Lebanese librarians (from Tripoli and Beyrouth) ZINC, along with the international service and the libraries of Marseille welcome in June 2012, three school librarians from Alexandria – school libraries of St Marc, St Joseph and Mère de Dieu.

During three weeks, Safinaz El Antabli, Mirna Ayad and [...]

Feathers for moon resistance, with CEAlex

cdussol — Mon, 28 May 2012 17:12:22 +0000

« Feathers for moon resistance » is an exhibition dealing with surrealist poets in French speaking Egyptian press. It was created by Alexandrian studies centre (CEAlex), during the two weeks event for French speaking culture, organized by French Institute in Alexandria, from 29 March to 12 april 2012.

« Des plumes [...]

Sharing the experience of « reading challenges »

cdussol — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:53:07 +0000

Grande Bastide’s library © MEDiakitab-CD

Since 2008, Grande Bastide secondary school in Marseille and St Marc school in Alexandria, meet to challenge each other on a common reading. Pupils from both countries gather at the same time to ask themselves questions about a book or a film. Reading challenges represent a nice way [...]

Alif, Alpha et Arobase : un projet MEDiakitab avec les jeunes

cdussol — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:07:14 +0000

The project Alif, Alpha et Arobase, lead young people from Ramallah, Alexandria, Tyr, Oran and Marseille, to make inquiries on writings around the Mediterranean sea. They will use their imagination to create and exchange during several months.

Cradle of the first alphabets and the three Book religions, Mediterranean shores host plenty of history, [...]

The Heritage days in Alexandria

cdussol — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:38:56 +0000

The first edition of the Heritage Days in Alexandria was held from 24 till 28 September 2010. Four days of events, attendance was nearly two thousand people. The events were electic: exhibitions, free for a day of national museum, tasting culinary, meetings with authors, educational workshops……

Following the success of this first year, the partners [...]

Stop motion training in Alexandria

Laetitia — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 08:04:23 +0000

From 6th to 9th of June, ZINC proposed a training on how to lead a workshop with children and young people to create a stop-motion movie, in the frame of cultural or educational projects. Participants are teachers from schools or cultural coordinators from libraries or cultural organization.

Members from MEDiakitab network and educational Egyptian [...]

“Philip and Omar”, Egyptian children litterature dealing with friendship

Laetitia — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:00:28 +0000

Philip and Omar are two Egyptian boys who come from two different cities and live according to their own daily habits, but share similar daydreams. When they happen to meet each other around a sand castle we wonder whether it is for better or for worse… This beautiful book deals with [...]