The State in the Mediterranean, an analysis of Francis Ghilès

In Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, in Barhein, Libya, Syria, the wave of popular uprising that swept the Arab countries is first crystallized on those heads of state and senior political at the head of these countries. The question of institutions and the refounding of the state emerges only in a second step, once obtained the departure of disgraced leaders (Ben Ali, Mubarak, Gaddafi, Saleh and maybe tomorrow ... El Assad).

See Islam in European societies - Nilüfer Göle to MUCEM Tuesday of February 8, 2011

Nilufer Gole is a sociologist and expert on European Islam and its developments. Born in Istanbul, she lived and worked in the UK, she now lives in France and teaches at the EHESS. She is the author of Muslim and modern. Sailing in Turkey and Civilization, published in 1993 by Editions La Découverte.

Internet: A new era for popular revolutions?

Coups in the Tunisian and Egyptian and demonstrations are continuing in other Arab countries show an alliance between a new method of challenging former ally and thoroughly tested to new communication technologies that have left their mark on these movements.

A "September 11 in reverse"?

Since the early uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, but also in Algeria, Jordan and Yemen, the "experts" of the Mediterranean and the Arab world took turns to contribute to the understanding of current events. Among this profusion of perspectives, reflecting the diversity of a community as large as protean career, one is surprised to learn that many of these experts, the sudden collapse of given arrangements to be among the most stable in the region was predictable. The surprise at the statements is even greater than anyone, including the Institute of the Mediterranean, can claim to have anticipated the events going on in their suddenness and intensity.

Report: Henry Laurens to MUCEM Tuesday of January 11, 2011

Historian, Henri Laurens is a professor at the College de France, Chair "Contemporary History of the Arab world." During the Conference, he developed his historical analysis of the "Mediterranean dream", since the expedition launched by Egypt Bonaparte in 1798 until the question of Palestine ⁱⁿ the 20th century through the "Great Game" of European powers in the ^19th century.

New Blue Plan report: Urban Mobility and Sustainability in the Mediterranean

The Blue Plan has just published a new study on "Urban Mobility and Sustainability in the Mediterranean: Diagnosis prospective regional" in the series Les Cahiers du Plan Bleu.

Characterized by rapid urbanization of the country of the South and East and by a dominant urban sprawl to the north, the problems of urban mobility in the Mediterranean raises major questions in terms of sustainable development.

This prospective diagnosis is the result of a process of partnership work undertaken dice 2005 with support from the World Bank, the French Development Agency, and Veolia Environment.

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Union for the Mediterranean: the local and regional authorities to meet up on January 29th in Agadir (Morocco)

January 29th, for the first time since its inception, members of the Regional and Local Assembly Euro-Mediterranean (ARLEM) will meet in plenary session in the South of the Mediterranean, in Agadir (Morocco), at the invitation of Mohamed Boudra, co-chair of the Assembly and President of the Region Taza-Al Hoceima-Taounate.

Report: Kalypso Nicolaidis to MUCEM Tuesday of December 14, 2010

Political scientist, Kalypso Nicolaidis has taught at Harvard, she is currently professor of international relations at Oxford University, where she directed the Center for European Studies (College St. Anthony). She is currently resident at the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Research (Imera) in Marseille.

Kalypso Nicolaidis, announced three key ideas that it believes should be structuring for relations between Europe and the Mediterranean in 2030 and, a fortiori, to install the MUCEM (Museum of Civilization Euro-Mediterranean) in this landscape Mediterranean.