I didn't see you posted for the article about Moroccan religious reformation and women.Precisely I 'm from France but I feel my self everything: Tunisian,Egyptian,...
I know islam could be conservative with women but as every religion .That's the inheritance of patriarchate.For me I don't see inconvenient that a women is a fullpower malika or every important position in society
well , I didn't take full tour "yet" in your site , i am hardly surviving here with my college :) ,although I finished college and supposed to be having fun ,but believe me whoever tells u that I am free this days , he is a lier :D ,so just give a break for some and by that time I would be finished reading ur blogs ,by the way I noticed that u started the blog in 2005 but stopped writing for some time , was this for a particular reason ?
for the Mediterranean union , can u tell me more about it ,what is the general idea ? and if there any plans to make more steps in the future ?
best regards ,
free eagle
About my opinion on the Mediterranean union , I think it is great to exchange points of view between us _people of Mediterranean , and making cycles of blogs that talk about the same fields is very important , not only exchanging points of view , but to retrieve a lost habit which is communicating with others , now in Arabic countries , every one is hearing his voice only, and it would be helpful to get out of this chain and get wider .
And for ages Mediterranean region were interacting as one part , and also having common bases to start from.
But I don’t get the full dimensions of ur project and what made it a "PROJECT " .
It's like creating a political federation but not as Arab United Republic was but more flexible a bit the same as in European Union.
Sure with economical apsects equally : a Mediterranean Common Market.
And about culture: the Mediterranean Union would organise expositions in each country with the goal to show we are one Mediterranean people, varied, complexed but in fact one.
By example how could you make really the difference between Spanish and Arabs (Historians talk about culture fusion for it) or Phenicians and Greek?
We are from the same breath.
Look, everything in Med. history is oriental-like. There are not so really influences of Northern Germanic and Celtic cultures.
You know well that the Arabs in Middle Ages were the strongest when they were the closest with Ancient Greek culture.
Mediterranean needs to be at least a 'soft power' to be an example for the world.
In order to show there is no civilisation clash at all and to show cultures are opened to receive the best of the others
So my project is cosmopolitist.
I hope my explanation is limpid. In fact everything is detailed in my manifesto (the 2nd article)