Cultural meetings in Istanbul: Ayfer Tuzcu Unsal, or about mediterranea cuisine
(by Simone Perotti) “Impossible.” The writer, journalist and blogger Ayfer Tuzcu Unsal answers without hesitation when I ask her if there is an emblematic aroma that sums up Turkey. And she answers in the same way when I ask whether there is a taste that encloses [...]
Understanding. Complicity. Listening. Communication (and love) on the Third Millennium.
(by Simone Perotti) “Oil is subversive, like the mixing of races.” This is how Buket Uzuner, a much loved writer in Italy for her splendid “Ada d’ambra” (Sellerio), but also an environmental activist and author of an extensive bibliography of fiction and non-fiction, started yesterday [...]
Press release n°19 – Istanbul – Italian Institute of Culture
“After the warm welcome we got in Athens, another surprising response comes from the Turkish cultural society . Simone Perotti said – We are honoured because Turkey is a great country, the heir of a centuries-old civilisation and culture, which is not [...]
#iosonomediterraneo #jesuismediterranéen #iammediterranean
(...) If you are the Europe, if this is the soul, the humanity of Europe, then I am not European, I'm Mediterranean. (...) We, by Progetto Mediterranea, are MEDITERRANEAN. All of us are mediterranean in this tragic era. Do not leave them alone. [...]
Plankton mapping in the Mediterranean sea: from Otranto to Monemvasia – June 2014
Outcomes of plankton mapping along the first part of the route published. The results are reassuring as no non-autochthonous or invasive species were identified. The Otranto Channel is a hot-spot of plankton biodiversity. In the Ionian sea microplastics are a cause for concern. Read the plankton [...]
Mediterranea in Istanbul: the cultural programme
Mediterranean sailing to know the Mediterranean region, the sea and its history. And not only. Mediterranea sailing and the aim of expedition is the meeting with the culture of the Mediterranean area, and then the intellectuals, artists, writers with whom to exchange ideas and points [...]
A greek recipe by chef Stefanos Stefanidis for Progetto Mediterranea
Mediterranean food. Food as cultural identity, as expression of people’s history, tradition and innovation, melting tastes and flavours. Progetto Mediterranea sails and invites on board the leading figures of Mediterranean cooking, it tastes and experiences, it listens to, it speaks to, it gathers [...]
Cultural meetings in Athens: the video-abstract
The video-promo intro to the uncut interviews of the Meetings in Athens conducted by Simone Perotti. The faces and words of the greek thoughts, in the places and spaces of Athens and aboard Mediterranea. A man makes a question, the Greek intellectual community answeres, [...]
Cultural meetings in Kavala: Charalampos Tsourokidis, or about the smile and the energy of dreams
(by Simone Perotti) We met Charalampos Tsouroukidis in a very particular way: we were in a bar, having a drink, when a man wearing a fedora and scarf, dressed simply but elegantly, approached us and in very good Italian started to ask us [...]
Meetings aboard Mediterranea: Stefanos Stefanidis, chef
(by Simone Perotti) You don’t do things, you do them again. And when they are done, you have already imagined them, otherwise they will never materialise. Which is exactly what happened one day exactly two years ago. One of those days when everything came true, [...]
Cultural meetings in Athens: Antonio Ferrari, foreign correspondent and columnist by Corriere della Sera newspaper
(by Simone Perotti) If you don’t know anything about a well-informed foreign correspondent who is passionate about his work, and who has for decades been on the Mediterranean scene interviewing an array of leaders, and keeps a watchful eye on the more or [...]
Cultural meetings in Athens: Marios Strofalis, musicians and composer
(by Simone Perotti) “We’ve got to work out a way to live without money, at least a little money as possible. Enough is enough”. I look up, and look at him. Sorry, what was that? “That’s right. It’s time to put an [...]
