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Khadija AmahalE R A S M U S V I R T U A L E X C H A N G EC R O S S - C U L T U R A L T R A I N E R ( M O R O C C O )

Khadija Amahal is a Moroccan citizen holding a Master degree in Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching.She joined the Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange in 2018 as a team leader. Few months later, and after receiving the Training of Trainers, she became a debate trainer. Today, she is a master trainer who supervises other trainers.During the third edition of the ALF online Euro-Med debate competition, she took the role of the Chief Reporter; she supervised the competition’s moderators and reporters and assured the reception of reports in the right format. Throughout her journey in the E+VE, Khadija proudly delivered more than 20 online sessions.Khadija has a great interest in the media. She participated in an 8 months citizen journalism program in Morocco and took part in an online storytelling training where she had been in contact with participants from different countries in the MENA region.

The feeling of guilt, Yala-Press, August 30, 2017You can still be yourself, Yala-Press, June 26, 2018

Nabil Al-SharifE X E C U T I V E D I R E C T O R , A N N A L I N D H F O U N D A T I O N

H.E. Dr Nabil Al-Sharif, Executive Director of the Anna Lindh Foundation for Dialogue between Cultures, former Senator, Ambassador, Minister and a strong advocate for intercultural dialogue. Nabil Al-Sharif has an extensive background in public service. This includes positions as Minister of Media Affairs & Government Spokesperson of The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and member of the Upper House of Jordan’s Parliament.Al-Sharif has also served Jordan’s Foreign Service in the capacity of Ambassador to Morocco, Mauritania and Senegal. Previously, Al-Sharif has also worked as Editor-in-Chief of the Ad-Dustour newspaper, which is an Arabic-language daily in Jordan. He was also the cultural editor of a local Jordanian daily and wrote extensively both in Arabic and English on the need for enhancing intercultural dialogue.Dr Al-Sharif obtained his PhD and MA in English Literature from Indiana University in the US. He also taught at three Jordanian universities for a number of years.

Alberto Capote LamaP R O F E S S O R , U N I V E R S I T Y O F G R A N A D A ( S P A I N )

Alberto Capote has a Master in Sociology and holds a doctorate in Human Geography from the University of Granada in Spain. He is currently a teacher-researcher in the Department of Human Geography at the same university. He did his post-doctorate at Hassan II University in Casablanca (Morocco). He is editor-in-chief of the journal Riem (International Journal of Migration Studies) of the University of Almería (Spain). His main fields of research are: international migrations (Moroccan migrations; Spanish migrations…), the relationship between interculturality and migrations; the geography of the population.Some of his recent publications include: Capote, A., " Le bouleversement des projets migratoires des Marocains en Espagne" (book chapter, L’Harmattan, 2017); Capote, A. and Iarrera, S., (2020) “Menores no acompañados en un espacio de transición: caso de Milazzo (Sicilia)”, Anales de Geografía de la Universidad Complutense, nº 40 (1); Pérez, A., Fernández, B. and Capote, A. (2020), “Virtual communities in intra-European mobilities as mechanisms of integration and social exclusion: the new Spanish migration in Europe” (book chapter), in Moxon, D. Șerban, AM, Potočnik, D., Pasic, L., Connolly, N, Stefan, V., (ed.), Strasbourg, Council of Europe.

RIEM journalEl cine como herramienta para analizar los procesos de aculturación en distintos contextos europeos, 2019 (in Spanish)

Iason AthanasiadisM U L T I M E D I A J O U R N A L I S T ( G R E E C E )

Iason Athanasiadis is a photojournalist, documentary-maker and writer working on the intersection of the Eastern Mediterranean with the Arab, Persian and Turkic Middle East. Fluent in Arabic, Persian and Turkish, he covered some of the contemporary region’s signature crises and lived in Cairo, Damascus, Libya's Tripoli, Sanaa and Tehran. He was twice-honoured with the Anna Lindh Foundation Mediterranean Journalism award and is currently based between Athens, Istanbul and Tunis.

Photo-reportage for Die WeltProfessional Facebook page

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Alberto Capote has a Master in Sociology and holds a doctorate in Human Geography from the University of Granada in Spain. He is currently a teacher-researcher in the Department of Human Geography at the same university. He did his post-doctorate at Hassan II University in Casablanca (Morocco). He is editor-in-chief of the journal Riem (International Journal of Migration Studies) of the University of Almería (Spain). His main fields of research are: international migrations (Moroccan migrations;Spanish migrations…), the relationship between interculturality and migrations; the geography of the population. Some recent publications: Capote, A., " Le bouleversement des projets migratoires des Marocains en Espagne" (book chapter, L’Harmattan, 2017); Capote, A. and Iarrera, S., (2020) “Menores no acompañados en un espacio de transición: caso de Milazzo (Sicilia)”, Anales de Geografía de la Universidad Complutense, nº 40 (1); Pérez, A., Fernández, B. and Capote, A. (2020), “Virtual communities in intra-European mobilities as mechanisms of integration and social exclusion: the new Spanish migration in Europe” (book chapter), in Moxon, D. Șerban, AM, Potočnik, D., Pasic, L., Connolly, N, Stefan, V., (ed.), Strasbourg, Council of Europe.

Marius CeveliE R A S M U S V I R T U A L E X C H A N G EC R O S S - C U L T U R A L T R A I N E R ( I T A L Y / A L B A N I A )

Marjus Ceveli is a human rights activist who spent one year in Serbia with a peace building program, and before he worked one year with an Italian NGO for the integration of the children of the Roma community in a small village in Albania.He participated in different exchanges and training with civil society organizations in Spain, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Iran, Kosovo and Austria. He also participated in the first Western Balkans Fund Civil Society Summit that took place last February in Tirana (Albania), representing a Serbian NGO. As a Facilitator he facilitated the following E+VE courses: Newcomers and Nationalism, Cultural Encounters Perspectives on Populism, Advancing GenderIn/Equality in Media and Journalism, Youth Peace and Security and Sustainable Food Systems.

Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange: distance 0 dialogue, Kmetro0, January 2, 2020

Italy trials a new approach to building peace - “the youth driven Civil Peace Corps”,Ripplezoo, November 10, 2019

Pietro GagliardiJ U N I O R P O L I C Y A N A L Y S T , O E C D - O R G A N I S A T I O NF O R E C O N O M I C C O - O P E R A T I O N A N D D E V E L O P M E N T

Pietro Gagliardi is a Junior Policy Analyst in the Public Governance Directorate of the OECD, where his work focuses on public governance for youth empowerment and intergenerational justice in OECD and MENA countries.Before joining the OECD, Pietro Gagliardi worked in the fields of geopolitical and macroeconomic risk, international relations research, and economic research. He is also an alumnus of Johns Hopkins University SAIS (MA) and the University of Oxford (BA).

Youth and COVID-19 – Response, Recovery and Resilience, OECD Policy Brief, 2020

Nadia Henni-MoulaiJ O U R N A L I S T A N D A U T H O R , M E L T I N G B O O K ( F R A N C E )

In the aftermath of a career in political communications, Nadia Henni-Moulai dedicated this last decade to journalism and media entrepreneurship.In 2010, she launched MeltingBook, a platform to identify leading experts from diversity. The purpose was to connect them with mainstream media. In 2016, it turned into a professional media to cover the 2017 French presidential election and raise different voices from minorities. Ever since MeltingBook has produced more than 600 multimedia contents.

PortfolioFrance needs to desegregate its urban centers, TRT World, April 12, 2018Can France be more like its football team?, TRT World, July 10, 2018Berbères juifs : « Une identité unique et exclusive est fragile »,Jeune Afrique, August 10, 2020 (in French)

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Eleonora InsalacoH E A D O F O P E R A T I O N S A N D I N T E R C U L T U R A L R E S E A R C H ,A N N A L I N D H F O U N D A T I O N

Eleonora Insalaco is the Head of Operations and Intercultural Research at the Anna Lindh Foundation.She is also the editor of three consecutive editions of the Anna Lindh Report on Intercultural Trends in the EuroMed region (2010, 2014, 2017 editions) and of the Anna Lindh Handbook on Intercultural Citizenship Education in the EuroMed region.Insalaco is a graduate of the College of Europe, with academic expertise in Islamic studies and Euro-Med relations in the field of education, research, youth, civil society, cultural and media.

Orsolya KomlósiI M P A C T P R O D U C E R / I M P A C T D I S T R I B U T I O N ,P A L A N T Í R F I L M A L A P Í T V Á N Y ( H U N G A R Y )

Orsolya Komlósi is a cultural anthropologist who is working with documentaries because she considers the film as the best tool for catalyzing social change.She is a curator, festival organizer, distributor.She is working at Palantír Film Foundation, whose primary aim is to promote intercultural dialogue through documentaries.She founded the FilmSchool project to apply social drama in the impact measurement of a documentary film. She is also a student at the University of Theater and Film Arts Doctoral School, Budapest.

Elbatoul MazighiE R A S M U S V I R T U A L E X C H A N G EC R O S S - C U L T U R A L T R A I N E R ( A L G E R I A )

Elbatoul Mazighi is a computer engineering student, currently working on a cybersecurity graduation thesis that revolves around human-computer interaction.Ms Mazighi is also a debate trainer with the Erasmus Virtual Exchange program and with the Young Mediterranean Voices.

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Hanaa McdadyE R A S M U S V I R T U A L E X C H A N G EC R O S S - C U L T U R A L T R A I N E R ( J O R D A N )

Mcdady is a virtual exchange trainer who currently works with PwC- RCU as a project manager at AlUla in Saudi Arabia as part of the heritage Nature art and culture program and master plan for phase zero. Mcdady has participated in several online multicultural leadership rooms of dialogue and debate rooms with Erasmus+.

Eetta Prince-GibsonJ O U R N A L I S T , M O M E N T M A G A Z I N E ( I S R A E L )

Award-winning journalist, academic and lecturer on Israeli society and politics, focusing on Jerusalem, civil society, gender issues in Israel and the Middle-East conflict, the role of the media in conflict resolution and social change, and refugee and minority rights. Eetta Prince-Gibson was previously the Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Report, she is currently the Israel Editor for Moment Magazine and contributes regularly to Haaretz, Foreign Policy, al-Monitor, +61J and other international publications.She is the 2015 recipient of a Clarion Award for Women's Writing and a 2015 National Religion Newswriters Association First-Place Award. She was also awarded the Search for Common Ground Award for Reporting and Analysis on the Middle East and several Simon Rockower Awards.

Now I can walk out of my house and not take a risk: Bibi kicked an own goal,Plus61JMedia, October 5, 2020Jerusalem: A city divided by sound, Moment Magazine, July 27, 2020Sharing the pain of Yom Hazikaron, Moment Magazine, April 28, 2020Book Review | The Israeli-Palestinian Infinite Polygon, February 25, 2020Amid Political Chaos, a Chance for Israel’s Arab Minority, Foreign Policy, November 4, 2019

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Bayan TalS E N I O R A D V I S E R , J O R D A N M E D I A I N S T I T U T E ( J O R D A N )

Bayan Tal has more than 40 years of media and communication experience. She started as a journalist and later media executive at Jordan Radio and Television Corporation (JRTVC). She also served as Director of International Media and Communication for His Majesty King Abdullah II and returned to JRTVC as first female Director General.Tal is currently Senior Adviser at the Jordan Media Institute, leading the national Media Literacy program. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Crown Prince Foundation.

Davide ZurloC O M M U N I C A T I O N S A N D A D V O C A C Y A S S O C I A T E , P E R M A N E N T D E L E G A T I O N O F F I C E O F T H E A S S O C I A T I O N " C O M U N I T À P A P A G I O V A N N I X X I I I " ( A P G 2 3 ) A T T H E U N I T E D N A T I O N S H U M A N R I G H T S C O U N C I L / U N H R C ( I T A L Y )

Davide Zurlo studied Arabic and Hebrew in Venice and holds an MA in International Relations from the University of Kent.An alumnus from the College of Europe, he specialises inIntercultural Communications and International Relations of the Middle East and North Africa. He currently works in Geneva where he is a Communications and Advocacy Assistant at the Permanent Delegation Office of the APG23 at the UNHRC. He travelledextensively between Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Iran and Qatar.

Beyond Hydrocarbons: Libya’s Blue Gold, IAI Commentaries 20 | 28, April 2020

Marcello ScalisiD I R E C T O R , U N I M E D - M E D I T E R R A N E A N U N I V E R S I T I E S U N I O N

Marcello Scalisi is the Director of UNIMED – Mediterranean Universities Union – since 2008. He holds a degree in Historical Sciences and in International Cooperation at the Faculty ofLiterature, Philosophy and Languages of University of Roma Tre, Rome. He gained extensive experience in Sicily in the sustainable tourism sector, managing and monitoring EU projects for localtourism development. He started working at UNIMED in 1998 as project manager and moved gradually to the coordination of UNIMED’s European, International and National funded initiatives and projects.Since Marcello Scalisi became director of UNIMED, there has been a significant increase of the number of associated universities to the network, funded projects and employees and collaborators. Moreo-ver, UNIMED is nowadays a permanent stakeholder of the European Commission.