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José
Vidal-Beneyto -
Gérard de Puymège (Eds.):
La
Méditerranée: modernité plurielle
[The
Mediterranean: plural modernity]
[Das
Mittelmeer: vielfältige Modernität]
(Paris:
Publisud, 2000), 136 pp.,
€ 29.88ISBN: 2-86600-559-3
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This book
reflects the work, the debates and analyses of the Mediterranean
Programme of UNESCO. After a brief introduction by the editors
the book is organised in three parts that address in the first
part ecological and cultural issues in the Mediterranean with
contributions by Edgar Morin (F), Salah Stétié
(Lebanon), Fawzia Zouari (Tunisia), Thierry Fabre (F), Paul
Balta (F), Nourredine Abdi (Algeria), Ahmed Mahiou (Algeria)
and Nourredine Bacchi (Algeria). In the second part aspects
of a sustainable development in the Mediterranean including
issues of water and of solar energy are being analysed in
chapters by Michel Batisse (F), Boris Berkovski (Russia),
Osman Benchikh (Algeria), Houria Tazi Sadeq (Morocco), Atef
Hamdy (Egypt), Cosimo Lacirignola (Italy), Giuliana Trisorio-Liuzzi
(Italy), Youssef Courbage (F, Lebanon) and Abdelkader Sid
Ahmed (F/Algeria). The third part addresses isses of multiculturalism,
of human rights and peace in the Mediterranean in chapters
by Joseph Maila (F, Lebanon), Abdellatif Felk (Morocco), Roland
Minnerath (F), Abdu Filali Ansary (Morocco), Gérard
Khoury (Lebanon), Ahmed Bedjaoui (F/Algeria) and Elisabeth
Mann-Borghese (Canada).
The book
is edited by José Vidal-Beneyto, sociologist and lawyer,
professor at the University Complutense, who was the principal
adviser to the former director of UNESCO, Federico Mayor and
until November 1999 he was responsible for UNESCO's Mediterranean
programme. Gérard de Puymège is a distinguished
historian and political scientist who has been responsible
for UNESCO's Mediterranean programme since November 1999.
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