Mare Corto is a long-term project of Maria Coccia and Matteo Tacconi to talk about the Adriatic Sea using words, images and sounds truly and intensively. The Adriatic Sea is a Mediterranean miniature: the coasts of Italy, of former Yugoslavia and of...
Alexander Langer, founder of the Italian Green Party (Verdi), was an unquiet and controversial man; he has always longed to create a dialogue between the “North and the South of the world”, between the rich and poor countries. He was a pacifist in a ...
Paolo Flores D’Arcais, philosopher and director of the journal Micromega, in his last book “La guerra del sacro. Terrorismo, laicità e democrazia radicale” (The war of the sacred. Terrorism, secularism and radical democracy) analyses the public relig...
Escaping from Syria and from the zones of conflict to reach closed borders, walls, refugee camps, mud and cold. That’s what the Balkan route is, from Greece through the countries of former Yugoslavia to reach the borders of Schengen. It is the most...
Favole al vento, Ospedali Riuniti, Ancona, December 5th, 2015 Favole al Vento (Fables to the wind), are fables entrusted to the wind to be transported, transmitted and narrated. Fairy tales for children with a deep meaning for the adults too. These...
Since 2014, the group of Syrian activists and journalists Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently (a group of Syrian journalists and independent activists) represents one of the few sources of news coming from the areas controlled by the IS. Two persons...
The answer to the IS terrorism from the voice a Muslim Italian girl. “Non ci avrete mai” is the title of the book of Chaimaa Fatihi, written after the terror attacks in Paris in November of 2015, when many Muslims in Europe felt as if considered guil...
Proverbs and expressions from Ancona, collected with sharpness by an ethnographer who leaves and arrives at Ancona. A way to find the origins of that placid indolence that the writer Francesco Fumelli described as “peoples’ Buddhism”, essence and sp...