This is the short story by Nadine Zammit (Malta) awarded 1st prize in the 2023 edition of the Euro-Mediterranean Youth Literary Contest "A Sea of Words".
In the Mediterranean many music traditions survive that form a complex heterodox ecosystem, the result of the interaction between them, some of which are very old.
The Palestinian art of the last decades appears inevitably conditioned by the history of the country’s occupation, which is why it has emerged as a form of expression and creation for the defense and protection of national identity
Visual creation in contemporary Egypt, which in some way still bears the omnipresent mark of its millenary history, has a collective asset of visual artists who lead a militant life in favour of art and expression.