The Euro-Mediterranean Institute for Inter-Civilization Dialog (EMID) proposes to promote cultural and religious dialogue between Mediterranean civilisations ; to establish a network of specialists in inter-Mediterranean dialogue ; to encourage Euro-Mediterranean creativity ; to encourage exchange between Mediterranean societies ; to work to achieve Mediterranean conviviality ; to advise charitable organisations working around the Mediterranean and provide the support necessary to achieve their original projects.
Anthology of Mizrahi Intellectual History, Israel
We had a noble dream! To gather, investigate and publish everything pertaini9ng to Sephardic, Eastern, and north African Jewish life from ancient times to the present…”Abraham Elmalech, East and West, 1919, in Hebrew
Description
Vision
To produce a much-needed book: an anthology of Sephardic/Mizrahi writings from the 1890s to the present. Most authors remain unknown Sephardic/Mizrahi intellectuals whose writings are important representation of the times and lives of Jewish communities in the Arab world whose history has not been fully written yet.
Activity
To gather and translate to Hebrew primary texts by Middle Eastern Jews in Arabic, French and English and write and a synthesis to make sense of them conceptually and historically.
Biography
Moshe Behar is Senior Lecturer in Middle eastern Studies at the University of Manchester.
Zvi Ben Dor-Benite is Professor of History at New York University
Activity Reports
2018