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Boultek, a venue dedicated to alternative culture. The association EAC- L’Boulvart with its eleven years of experience is strengthening its work and embarking on new challenges.

Sophie Bachelier speaks of the profound feelings of loss and emptiness provoked by a journey, often without return. Through photography, she portrays the life of mothers and wives of Senegalese migrants, whose stories she has also filmed.

An ever lasting fighter, Aadel Essaadani is one of the key contributors to cultural life in Casablanca. Through his diverse experiences he has nourished a strong vision of the important role of culture.

A group of associations give a second life to the old Casablanca Abattoirs (Slaughterhouse), transforming it into the first cultural site of the Arab world. Space is given to the young urban cultures.

Nadir Leghrib is a young musician. In the beginning, he became known for the reinterpretations of the grunge group Nirvana. This is where the nickname “Nadir Nirvana” comes from. He then created a new style: the “chaâbi-grunge”.

Reggae artist Enzo Ikah, who rebels against wars and injustices with his music, is becoming the voice of peace and love in Turkey, a country rapidly becoming more multicultural due to immigration.

Musician of fusion par excellence, Kheireddine M’kachiche has juggled with all musical registers to which he was given access: from classical music to the Algerian traditional repertoire, from jazz to rock…

Fanzines from various countries, in which people expressed themselves were gathered in the exhibition "even my mom can make a book". The exhibition is taking place in Kuledibi, a district in Istanbul considered to be at the crossroads of cultures.

Good weather, stability and warm- hearted people. All sell well with the tourists but how do young Maltese people live? What do they make out of living on a tiny Euro-Med island with ambitions of becoming an international communications hub? How does it feel to be a young person living in densely populated Malta today?

Work and money seem to be the number one preoccupation of most of the Maltese between twenty to thirty years of age. Subsistence, precarious employment and living up to one’s expectations are however only part of the complexities which define youths in present day Malta. Relationships, single-parenthood, immigration and education are still very much on the agenda.

Palestinian youth in the Gaza Strip make up the biggest segment of society trapped in a strip of land with the highest population density. Overview on the situation of youth in Gaza.

The active blogs of a few years ago, which scrutinised social violence and confrontations between the opposition and the police, seem to have waned in popularity today. Their success was attained neither by Facebook nor by mini-blogs, like dormant volcanoes whose eruption has been postponed eternally.