MEM Summer Summit 2019
Seminar 2019
Programme
The programme consisted of a series of plenary session and workshops, thematically separated into three streams – “New Dynamics of the Middle East Mediterranean Region”, “Middle East Mediterranean Region: Governance, Administration, and Policy Making”, “Middle East Mediterranean Region: Cultural Narratives”.
Full programme of the Seminar 2019: MEM_Summer_Summit_2019_Seminar_Programme
Speakers
![CAROLINE_ABU_SA’DA_2_photo_credit_Miguel_Bueno Photo credit: Miguel Bueno](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/CAROLINE_ABU_SADA_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
CAROLINE ABU SA’DA
President, ONG SOS Méditerranée, France
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EMILIANO ALBANESE
Professor, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
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ANNA ANTONIOS
Programme Officer, Swisspeace, Switzerland
![Fabrice Balanche_2 Fabrice Balanche_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Fabrice-Balanche_2-oyu3jdih3pw0kicyzfkjfw06dfpd70anwddhfvu608.jpg)
FABRICE BALANCHE
Associate Professor, University of Lyon, France
![SALEH_BARAKAT_2 SALEH_BARAKAT_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/SALEH_BARAKAT_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
SALEH BARAKAT
Art Expert, Gallery Owner and Curator, Gallery Agial/Saleh Barakat, Lebanon
![SOUHAIL_BELHADJ_2 SOUHAIL_BELHADJ_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/SOUHAIL_BELHADJ_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
SOUHAÏL BELHADJ
Research Associate, Graduate Institute, Switzerland
![Professor_Riccardo_Bocco_1 Professor_Riccardo_Bocco_1](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/mem-dqhksarx4ai1b6l-1-oyu3jdih3pw0kicyzfkjfw06dfpd70anwddhfvu608.jpg)
RICCARDO BOCCO
Professor, Graduate Institute, Switzerland
![Darawsha_Adham_2 Darawsha_Adham_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Darawsha_Adham_2-oyu3jdih3pw0kicyzfkjfw06dfpd70anwddhfvu608.jpg)
ADHAM DARAWSHA
Assessor for Cultures and Democratic Participation, Municipality of Palermo, Italy
![FEDERICA_DE_ROSSA_2 FEDERICA_DE_ROSSA_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/FEDERICA_DE_ROSSA_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
FEDERICA DE ROSSA
Professor and Director, Institute of Law, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
![GABRIELE_DERIGHETTI_2 GABRIELE_DERIGHETTI_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/GABRIELE_DERIGHETTI_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
GABRIELE DERIGHETTI
Deputy Head MENA Division, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), Switzerland
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ISHAC DIWAN
Professor, PSL – Paris Sciences et Lettres; École normale supérieure, France
![Jolanta_Drzewiecka_2.jpg Jolanta_Drzewiecka_2.jpg](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Jolanta_Drzewiecka_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
JOLANTA DRZEWIECKA
Professor, Institute for Public Communication, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
![RABIH_EL_CHAMMAY_4 RABIH_EL_CHAMMAY_4](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/RABIH_EL_CHAMMAY_4-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
RABIH EL CHAMMAY
Psychiatrist, Saint Joseph University, Lebanon
![Fadda_Marta_2 Fadda_Marta_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Fadda_Marta_2-oyu3jckmwvuq8wec4x5wve8ps1tzzb6xk8pzylvk6g.jpg)
MARTA FADDA
Postdoctoral Researcher, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
![Federica_Frediani_Forum_2.jpg Federica_Frediani_Forum_2.jpg](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Federica_Frediani_Forum_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
FEDERICA FREDIANI
Ph.D. Senior Researcher, Educational Program Manager MEM Freethinking Platform, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
![Greco_Sara_2 Greco_Sara_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Greco_Sara_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
SARA GRECO
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
![Abir_Haj_Ibrahim_2.jpg Abir_Haj_Ibrahim_2.jpg](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Abir_Haj_Ibrahim_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
ABIR HAJ IBRAHIM
Co-Founder and Board Member, Modaberoon Network, Syria
![MARC-ANDRÉ_HALIDMANN_2 MARC-ANDRÉ_HALIDMANN_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/MARC-ANDRÉ_HALIDMANN_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
MARC-ANDRÉ HALIDMANN
Research Associate, University of Bern, Switzerland
![Marlen_Heide_2.jpg Marlen_Heide_2.jpg](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Marlen_Heide_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
MARLEN HEIDE
Ph.D. Student, Institute for Public Communication, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
![Jean-Jacques_Hible_2 Jean-Jacques_Hible_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Jean-Jacques_Hible_2-oyu3jdih3pw0kicyzfkjfw06dfpd70anwddhfvu608.jpg)
JEAN-JACQUES HIBLE
Policy Analyst, Public Governance Directorate, OECD, Switzerland
![Hottinger_2 Hottinger_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Hottinger_2-oyu3jegbajxaw4bltxz60drmytkqepee8i0yx5sru0.jpg)
JULIAN HOTTINGER
Expert and Mediator, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), Switzerland
![Tomasz_Janowski_2 Tomasz_Janowski_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Tomasz_Janowski_2-oyu3jegbajxaw4bltxz60drmytkqepee8i0yx5sru0.jpg)
TOMASZ JANOWSKI
Professor and Head of Department of Applied Informatics in Management, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland; Professor, Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria
![Alexandre_Kazerouni_2 Alexandre_Kazerouni_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Alexandre_Kazerouni_2-1-oyu3jdih3pw0kicyzfkjfw06dfpd70anwddhfvu608.jpg)
ALEXANDRE KAZEROUNI
Associate Professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France
![Gilles_Kepel_2 Gilles_Kepel_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Gilles_Kepel_2-oyu3jdih3pw0kicyzfkjfw06dfpd70anwddhfvu608.jpg)
GILLES KEPEL
Professor, PLS Paris Sciences et Lettres-École normale supérieure, France; Adjunct Professor and Scientific director of the Middle East Mediterranean Freethinking Platform, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
![Mawazini_Fyras_2 Mawazini_Fyras_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Mawazini_Fyras_2-oyu3jdih3pw0kicyzfkjfw06dfpd70anwddhfvu608.jpg)
FYRAS MAWAZINI
Country Director for Morocco and Tunisia, Drosos Foundation, Switzerland
![DIMA_MOHAMMED_2 DIMA_MOHAMMED_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/DIMA_MOHAMMED_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
DIMA MOHAMMED
Senior Researcher, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
![Mouhoub_Mouhoud_2 Mouhoub_Mouhoud_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Mouhoub_Mouhoud_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
EL MOUHOUB MOUHOUD
Professor, University of Paris Dauphine PSL, France
![Professor_Silvia_Naef_2 Professor_Silvia_Naef_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/mem-screen-shot-2017-04-18-81300-1-oyu3jdih3pw0kicyzfkjfw06dfpd70anwddhfvu608.png)
SILVIA NAEF
Professor, Université de Genève, Switzerland
![Ibrahim_Olabi_2 Ibrahim_Olabi_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Ibrahim_Olabi_2-oyu3jdih3pw0kicyzfkjfw06dfpd70anwddhfvu608.jpg)
IBRAHIM OLABI
Executive Director and Founder, Syrian Legal Development Programme, Syria
![JUANITA_OLAYA_2 JUANITA_OLAYA_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/JUANITA_OLAYA_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
JUANITA OLAYA
Lawyer, Independent Expert; Chair, UNCAC Coalition, Germany
![Hela Ouardi Hela Ouardi à Paris le 27 fevrier 2019](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/HELA_OUARDI_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
HELA OUARDI
Professor, Université de Tunis, Tunisia
![Piana_Francesca_2 Piana_Francesca_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Piana_Francesca_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
FRANCESCA PIANA
Historian, Université de Genève, Switzerland
![GIOVANNI_PICA_2 GIOVANNI_PICA_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/GIOVANNI_PICA_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
GIOVANNI PICA
Professor, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
![Piccand_Francis_2 Piccand_Francis_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Piccand_Francis_2-oyu3jdih3pw0kicyzfkjfw06dfpd70anwddhfvu608.jpg)
FRANCIS PICCAND
Head, Think-Tank Middle East and North Africa, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), Switzerland
![Redissi_Nadia_2 Redissi_Nadia_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Redissi_Nadia_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
NADIA REDISSI
Training manager, Maison de l’Image, Tunisia
![ANDREA_ROCCI_2 ANDREA_ROCCI_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/ANDREA_ROCCI_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
ANDREA ROCCI
Dean and Professor, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
![Said_Ibrahim_2 Said_Ibrahim_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Said_Ibrahim_2-oyu3jdih3pw0kicyzfkjfw06dfpd70anwddhfvu608.jpg)
IBRAHIM SAÏD
Research Associate, Centre of Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP); Co-founder, Think-Ahead, Switzerland
![Samir_2 Samir_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Samir_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
SAMIR
Filmmaker, Producer, Author, and Film Director, Switzerland
![Mark_Thatcher_2 Mark_Thatcher_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Mark_Thatcher_2-oyu3jdih3pw0kicyzfkjfw06dfpd70anwddhfvu608.jpg)
MARK THATCHER
Professor, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali (LUISS) Guido Carli, Rome, Italy
![Yves_Ubelmann_2.jpg Yves_Ubelmann_2.jpg](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Yves_Ubelmann_2-oyu3jdih3pw0kicyzfkjfw06dfpd70anwddhfvu608.jpg)
YVES UBELMANN
President and Co-founder, Iconem, France
![LUCA_URECH_2 LUCA_URECH_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/LUCA_URECH_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
LUCA URECH
Swiss Career Diplomat and Syria Programme Manager, Human Security Division, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), Switzerland
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LIISA VÄLIKANGAS
Professor, Hanken School of Economics, Finland
![ELINE_VAN_DER_VLIST_2 ELINE_VAN_DER_VLIST_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/ELINE_VAN_DER_VLIST_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
ELINE VAN DER VLIST
Artistic Director, Darat al Funun-The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Jordan
![COSTA_VAYENAS_2 COSTA_VAYENAS_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/COSTA_VAYENAS_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
COSTA VAYENAS
Director, Procivis Think Tank, Switzerland
![JEAN-PATRICK_VILLENEUVE_5 JEAN-PATRICK_VILLENEUVE_5](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/JEAN-PATRICK_VILLENEUVE_5-oyu3jckmwvuq8wec4x5wve8ps1tzzb6xk8pzylvk6g.jpg)
JEAN-PATRICK VILLENEUVE
Professor and Vice-Director, Institute for Public Communication, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
![Pio Wennubst Pio Wennubst](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/PIO_WENNUBST_2-oyu3jckmwvuq8wec4x5wve8ps1tzzb6xk8pzylvk6g.jpg)
PIO WENNUBST
Vice Director General, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), Switzerland
![DIMITRIOS_XEFTERIS_2 DIMITRIOS_XEFTERIS_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/DIMITRIOS_XEFTERIS_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
DIMITRIOS XEFTERIS
Assitant Professor, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Forum 2019
Programme
The second edition of the Middle East Mediterranean Summer Summit involved around 100 young change-makers from over 30 countries of the Middle East Mediterranean region and Europe. Organised by Università della svizzera italiana (USI) with the joint support of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, the meeting aimed to develop innovative solutions and concrete opportunities for dialogue and growth.
On 24 and 25 August 2019, after an intense eight-day Seminar, the ideas generated and formulated by the young change-makers were presented and debated in the framework of a Forum, open to the public. Forum attendees included high-level political authorities, experts, intellectuals, and entrepreneurs of the Middle East Mediterranean region.
Full programme of the Forum 2019: MEM_Summer_Summit_2019_Forum_Programme
Speakers
![Souad_Abderrahim_2 Souad_Abderrahim_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Souad_Abderrahim_2-oyu3jdih3pw0kicyzfkjfw06dfpd70anwddhfvu608.jpg)
SOUAD ABDERRAHIM
Mayor of Tunis, Tunisia
![Abela_Carmelo_2 Abela_Carmelo_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Abela_Carmelo_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
HE CARMELO ABELA
Minister, Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade Promotion, Republic of Malta
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EMILIANO ALBANESE
Professor, Università della Svizzera italiana; Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Mental Health, University of Geneva, Switzerland
![Antonini_Roberto_2 Antonini_Roberto_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Antonini_Roberto_2-oyu3jckmwvuq8wec4x5wve8ps1tzzb6xk8pzylvk6g.jpg)
ROBERTO ANTONINI
Journalist, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera, Switzerland
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MANUELE BERTOLI
State Councilor, Republic and Canton of Ticino, Switzerland
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MARCO BORRADORI
Mayor, City of Lugano, Switzerland
![Lorenzo_Cantoni_2 Lorenzo_Cantoni_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Lorenzo_Cantoni_2-oyu3jdih3pw0kicyzfkjfw06dfpd70anwddhfvu608.jpg)
LORENZO CANTONI
Prorector and Professor, UNESCO Chair, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
![olmo_giovannini_2 olmo_giovannini_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/olmo_giovannini_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
OLMO GIOVANNINI
Film historian, Communication Officer at the Dicastero cultura, sport ed eventi, City of Lugano, Switzerland
![MARINA_CAROBBIO_GUSCETTI_2 MARINA_CAROBBIO_GUSCETTI_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/MARINA_CAROBBIO_GUSCETTI_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
MARINA CAROBBIO GUSCETTI
President, National Council, Switzerland
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HE IGNAZIO CASSIS
Head of the Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), Switzerland
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CRISTIAN CHIAVETTA
Environmental Engineer and Industrial Researcher, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development ENEA, Italy
![Cremonesi_Lorenzo_2 Cremonesi_Lorenzo_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Cremonesi_Lorenzo_2-oyu3jdih3pw0kicyzfkjfw06dfpd70anwddhfvu608.jpg)
LORENZO CREMONESI
Journalist and Middle East Correspondent, Corriere della Sera, Italy
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ISHAC DIWAN
Professor, PSL – Paris Sciences et Lettres, École normale supérieure, France
![Dominioni_Stefano Dominioni_Stefano](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Dominioni_Stefano_2-oyu3jdih3pw0kicyzfkjfw06dfpd70anwddhfvu608.jpg)
STEFANO DOMINIONI
Executive Secretary, Council of Europe Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes (EPA); Director of the European Institute of Cultural Routes, Luxembourg
![RABIH_EL_CHAMMAY_4 RABIH_EL_CHAMMAY_4](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/RABIH_EL_CHAMMAY_4-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
RABIH EL CHAMMAY
Psychiatrist, Saint Joseph University, Lebanon
![El-Adawy_Maha_2 El-Adawy_Maha_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/El-Adawy_Maha_2-oyu3jdih3pw0kicyzfkjfw06dfpd70anwddhfvu608.jpg)
MAHA EL-ADAWY
MD and Director, Health Protection and Promotion, WHO Office Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Egypt
![Eloundou Assomo_2 Eloundou Assomo_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Eloundou-Assomo_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
LAZARE ELOUNDOU ASSOMO
Director, Culture and Emergencies, UNESCO, France
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BOAS EREZ
Rector, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
![Gitai_Amos_2 Gitai_Amos_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Gitai_Amos_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
AMOS GITAÏ
Filmmaker and Author, Israel
![Enrico_Granara_2.jpg Enrico_Granara_2.jpg](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Enrico_Granara_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
ENRICO GRANARA
Minister Plenipotentiary, Coordinator Euro-Mediterranean Multilateral Activities, Directorate General for Political and Security Affairs, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation MAECI, Italy
![Hatough_Susy_2 Hatough_Susy_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Hatough_Susy_2-oyu3jckmwvuq8wec4x5wve8ps1tzzb6xk8pzylvk6g.jpg)
SUZY HATOUGH
Director, Middle East Travel and Tourism Development Network, Middle East University, Jordan
![Nasser_Kamel_2 Nasser_Kamel_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Nasser_Kamel_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
NASSER KAMEL
General Secretary, Union for the Mediterranean UPM, Spain
![Kneissl_Karin_2 Kneissl_Karin_2](https://www.mem-summit.ch/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Kneissl_Karin_2-oyu3jbmsq1tfxafpaeraawh96nymrm37842ihbwyco.jpg)
KARIN KNEISSL
Ambassador; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs; Analyst, Austria
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GILLES KEPEL
Professor and Scientific Director of the Middle East Mediterranean Freethinking Platform, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland; PLS Paris Sciences et Lettres-École Normale Supérieure, France
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ELENA KORZHENEVICH
Co-Founder and AtWork Program Director, Moleskine Foundation, Italy
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DEREK LUTTERBECK
Deputy Director and Holder of the Swiss Chair, Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies MEDAC, University of Malta, Malta
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SAFWAN M. MASRI
Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development, Columbia University, USA
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EL MOUHOUB MOUHOUD
Professor, University of Paris Dauphine PSL, France
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EDUARDO SANTANDER
Executive Director, European Travel Commission (ETC), Belgium
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BENEDETTO SARACENO
Psychiatrist; Director Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse of WHO, SG Lisbon Institute for Global Mental Health, Italy and Portugal
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HERWIG FRANZ SCHOPPER
Advisor, Experimental Physicist, Former Director General CERN and one of the Founding Fathers of SESAME, Middle East, Jordan
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ROLLA SCOLARI
Journalist, Italy
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YVES UBELMANN
President and Co-founder, Iconem, France
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TARIK M. YOUSEF
Director, Brookings Doha Center, Qatar; Board Member, Central Bank of Libya, Libya
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PIO WENNUBST
Vice Director General, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), Switzerland
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish?
T. S Eliot, The Waste Land, 1922
Cultural Dimension 2019
The exhibition Broken cities. A virtual journey from Syria to Iraq proposed an imaginary route to four cities laid waste by conflicts whose violence has over recent years turned them into theatres of war. Pictures of Damascus, Aleppo, Palmyra, and Mosul told their story, a fragmentary story, of this devastation. The landscape of ruins, in Marc Augé’s words, “cannot reproduce the past in its integrity; rather, it alludes intellectually to a multiplicity of ‘pasts’, somehow metonymically, it supplies our eye and our conscience with a dual proof of a lost functionality and an impressive actuality” (Marc Augé, 2003).
Lines from T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land (1922) and others from The Suspended Ode by Imru’ al-Qays (6th century), invited the viewer to a moment of silence, stillness, and meditation, outside time. The exhibition layout was structured in three stages:
Stage one
Stage one displayed photographs by Iconem, a French start-up. Interspersed with literary quotations, these photographs revealed unusual views of the cities and invited the viewers to raise questions about the rubble, the ruins and the meaning of time. It is in the eye of the beholder that the fragments will come to life and take on meaning. The pictures showed piles of rubble: wreckage present of ruins past.
Stage two
In stage two, the documentary Mosul year zero by Roberto Antonini and Philippe Blanc beared testimony to what is left of Mosul, three years after the Isis Caliphate and one year’s fighting. The voices of witnesses are heard over the images, narrating their sad tales of loss and destruction. Besides the documentary, a number of freeze-frames represented crumbled landscapes of Mosul, as well as of Damascus, Aleppo, and Palmyra.
Stage three
Stage three consisted essentially in an immersive cam, the work of e-REAL Logosnet, whereby visitors were able to watch videos produced by Iconem and by Unesco. With extremely striking images, this all-absorbing experience engulfed the eye of the visitors, who found themselves suspended between past and present, here and there, destruction and reconstruction.
The Lugano Initiative 2019
‘The Lugano Initiative. Proposals developed by young change-makers during the Middle East Mediterranean Summer Summit 2019’ is a document that collects concrete proposals for development and growth in the MEM region, developed and drawn up during the MEM Summer Summit 2019. The main contributors are the 100 young change-makers, who worked together across cultural differences and national identities.
Download the document: The Lugano Initiative – MEM Summer Summit 2019