Today we are pleased to publish our policy recommendations on democracy, social justice and human rights; agriculture; migrations; industry & energy; and according to our elite survey. Click here to read our policy recommendations
This essay analyses a sample of recent Maghrebi fiction to explore the Maghreb’s evolving cultural understanding of the Haraga. The Haraga is theorized to require action from both the migrant and the migrated-from. While the grammar of the word migration masks this duality as it posits the migrant as the sole subject, the Arabic word Haraga articulates the migrated-from as the mahroog (the burned) and this [...]
Eckart Woertz, Senior research fellow at CIDOB explains to MEDRESET what are the impacts of the EU's policies, in the water and agriculture sectors, in the MENA region.
This document summarizes the findings of MEDRESET Work Package 3 (WP3). This WP surveyed elite responses to EU policies in the Mediterranean region through a comprehensive qualitative fieldwork having covered 9 different countries (i.e. Lebanon, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Turkey). Respondents were asked to analyse their countries’ resistance to or adoption of [...]
This MEDRESET Policy Brief summarizes the findings of MEDRESET’s WP7 on migration, mobility and asylum in the Mediterranean and identifies policy implications Read the full MEDRESET Policy Brief
On the 14th of December, MEDRESET will hold a conference on "Re-thinking Euro-Mediterranean Relations in a Changing Regional and Global Setting" in Istanbul. The conference is organized by PODEM and will address the Euro-Mediterranean relations with a special focus on irregular migration through a high-level discussion among prestigious representatives of international organizations, civil societies, universities and think-tanks. Programme
This MEDRESET Policy Brief summarizes the findings of MEDRESET’s WP4 on political ideas in the Mediterranean and identifies policy implications Read the full Policy Brief
This document summarizes the findings of MEDRESET’s WP5 on “Agriculture and Water”, which aims at evaluating the effectiveness and potential of EU trade and assistance policies in the area of agriculture and water (including trade liberalization, EU-funded agro-food and water projects and cooperation initiatives) Read the full Policy Brief
Le 22 et le 23 Novembre, l'Université Moulay Ismail (Maroc) organise, à la mémoire de de feu Noureddine Harami, la 7ème édition du colloque international "DROIT À LA MOBILITÉ : REGARDS CROISÉS SUR LE RÔLEDES ÉTATS ET DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CIVILE". Le colloque se tiendra à la Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines. Programme
Jad Chaaban, Associate Professor - American University of Beirut (AUB) «As you might know, Lebanon hosts more than 1.5 millions of Syrian refugees. This has come definitively with problems in the Lebanese society and economy but I would like to argue that the Syrian refugee presence has been more beneficial, for the Lebanese economy, than it [...]
