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Cultural action in underprivileged areas

cdussol — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:43:26 +0000

Upon request of ASSABIL association, a meeting takes place in Marseille from 7 to 10 April 2015, within the framework of cooperation between the cities of Marseille and Beyrouth, and in partnership with MEDiaKitab association. Professionals in the field of culture are coming from different countries in the Mediterranean area and from Brazil to reflect [...]

Reading challenges, in South Lebanon

cdussol — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 11:28:15 +0000

In Lebanon, like in Marseille and Alexandria, reading challenges are renewed thanks to internet support. A playful contest between young readers of two schools. The meeting creates emulation that stimulate the desire for reading, writing and encourages each group to look for creativity. The questions they ask take different forms : riddles, cross words, word [...]

COBIAC and the city of Martigues welcome Kamel Suleiman of Tamer Institute

Laetitia — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:15:42 +0000

Kamel Suleiman © Espace lecture Vaillant-Acelem

Kamel Sulieman is a team mate of the Tamer Institute, which leads many initiatives on reading and writing in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip : writing workshops, publishing of several collections of books, creation and support to libraries in refugee camps… He came to do [...]

BNF digital resources

Laetitia — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 15:01:08 +0000

Site de la BnF pour enfants ©BnF

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?

cdussol — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:59:34 +0000

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During the summer 2011, the International Alliance of Independent Publishers put on-line an unpublished study about digital publishing.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 [...]

E-corpus, a collective and patrimonial digital library

cdussol — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 06:04:10 +0000

Founded in 2009, by Arles Book Conservation Centre (CCL), the “e-corpus” database indexes and spreads many type of documents (manuscripts, books, maps, archives, newspapers, pictures, audio documents, video…) coming from collections scattered all over the world, mostly in Europe and in the Mediterranean. Today, the platform accommodates more than 100 000 references from [...]

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 [...]

The digital book transformations, II

cdussol — Tue, 22 May 2012 15:04:49 +0000

On the occasion of its second edition, the 28th and 29th November 2011, the seminar gave the floor to various disciplines specialists, who came to provide their concepts about a matter of which social, economic and technical realities are deeply changing: the digital reading actors, mediums and practices. All these lectures are now available [...]

Sharing the experience of « reading challenges »

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

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, [...]