By the XVIII edition of Galassia Gutenberg, the Fondazione Mediterraneo assigned the following Mediterranean Book Awards:
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27 January 2007
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) -
Category: Mediterranean Awards
With a solemn ceremony that took place at the Fair Centre in Cairo, the Mediterranean Book Awards were assigned, in the presence of the members of the International Jury and of the institutional delegates.
Born as an issuing of the "Mediterranean Prize", it has the aim of awarding translation, edition, promotion, diffusion and spread of the works, contributing to a better acquaintance with the “other”, considering the variation and the vitality of the literary form of the research and of the contemporary debates on the two shores. This way it will be possible to favour interchanges and open debates to a larger Mediterranean public.
Animated by the will to make possible the dialogue between languages, cultures and thoughts of the two shores, and, more generally, the dialogue about universal values, the Prize has the promotion of the cultural interaction as a fundamental principle.
As a true bridge between the two shores, the prize let the western reader to read reference works of the thought of the northern shore in his own language and makes accessible to the European reader a often unknown side of the Literature and of the contemporary thought of the southern shore, basically the Arabic one.
The film "L´Enfant endormì", a Belgian -Moroccan co-production, directed by the Moroccan director Yasmine Kassari, is the winner of the section "Europa, Mediterraneo" of the 7th edition of Napolifilmfestival. 
Alpe Adria Cinema renews its annual meeting with Central and Eastern European cinema in occasion of the 18th edition of the Trieste Film Festival, Trieste, 18 – 25 January 2007 (Cinema Excelsior, Sala Azzurra, Cinema Ariston and Teatro Miela), directed as usual by Annamaria Percavassi. 
Alpe Adria Cinema is once again renewing its annual appointment with the Cinema of Central and Eastern Europe: the 16th Edition of the Trieste Film Festival, planned from 20th to 27th January 2005 (at the cinema Excelsior of Trieste and the Teatro Miela), in eight days of programme explores the films of a vast geographic area stretching from Central Europe to the Asian republics.