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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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Anne BRESARD

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For more than 30 years, Anne Bresard have been teaching as a librarian. After 20 years of experience in Paris, she settled in Marseille in 2004 and has been working in Grande Bastide, a preparatory school located in the East end of the city.

During her career, Anne Bresard has seen the transformation of the [...]

Laetitia DERENNE

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Laetitia Derenne graduated from IEP de Grenoble, and specialized in social policies. She is interested in knowledge transmission from paper and digital media. After working two years in the youth and children departments of Bibliotheca Alexandrina, she has been collaborating in MEDiaKitab project, through publishing and project assistance. At her level, she whishes to participate [...]

Pascal JOURDANA

Artistic director of La Marelle

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Pascal Jourdana is the artistic director of La Marelle, which is a place of writing residencies and literary programming in La Friche de la Belle de Mai. La Marelle work with the writers on artists’ retreats. They implement together production and dissemination of publishing projects, in France and abroad.

He has also been working as [...]

Catherine SABRY

Manager/ Bokra Sawa association

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Catherine Sabri grew up and lived in Egypt, where she lived until she was 29 years old. Since the beginning, she worked with communication and cultural mediation, particularly in Centre d’Etudes Alexandrines that depends on CNRS. In 2006-2007, she launched  a web cartoon project with children from Arles and Alexandria : Mare Nostrum. The collaborative project [...]

Gilles Eboli

Gilles Ebolli is an archivist and paleographer who manages Lyon’s libraries.

After managing the BDP of la Moselle, he assisted Dijon’s manager, and then was charged of a mission in the Carré d’Art of Nîmes and managed « La Cité du Livres » in Aix-en-Provence. Then he managed « l’Alcazar », the Marseille network libraries untill December [...]

Aldo Pirola

Aldo Pirola is Director of the Public Library System in Milan, which consists of 24 interconnected facilities, scattered on a territory with 1 million inhabitants.

He started his career in the library of the Roman Catholic University in Milan where he used to work at the central catalogue. Classification and cataloguing were his primary activities [...]

Samar al-Qutob

Samar al-Qutob is Palestinian / Jordanian passport, born in 1954 in Nablus- Palestine

Education :

1986  Post Graduate Diploma in translation, English – Arabic, Arabic- English , the   Polytechnic Of  Central London – now became one of the schools of the University Of Westminster, UK

Current position : Coordinator of the children librarie’s network in [...]

Ingrid Bon

Consultant library services for children and young adults and reading promotion. Secretary of IFLA section child 2003-2007 and chair of IFLA section child 2007- present. After 10 years of working as a children’s librarian in Zevenaar, Ingrid Bon started to work as a consultant library services for children and young adults at Biblioservice Gelderland. Every [...]

Mohamed SHENNAWY

Graphic designer, independent artist

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Shennawy was born in Cairo in 1978 and studied fine arts with a specialization in advertising. As a teenager, he developed a passion for comics. Then he began his career drawing for Ala el-Din magazine at the beginning of 2000’s, then he worked in advertising.

His short comics « Plus de batterie » was nominated in 2009 [...]

Antoine Boulad

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Antoine Boulad is a poet who was born in 1951, in Lebanon. He stayed in Paris between 1971 and 1980, and has been following a round trip peregrination around the Mediterranean sea and several European countries. In 1980, he went back Lebanon to undertake a teaching career and also occupied a managing position.

In 1997, [...]