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NOSTRO MARE NOSTRO
by Michele Capasso
DLibri - first edition June 2010 (it.)
f.to 16x24 - pp.576, ill. coloured
ISBN 88-8127-041-2

Edizioni Magma - second edition September 2015 (it.)
f.to 16x24 - pp.576, ill. coloured
ISBN 88-8127-041-3

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Michele Capasso retraces his experience as “architect of dialogue” at the head of the Fondazione Mediterraneo using the means of the description of a day passed in a hospital. It is a mix of sensations, emotions, reflections, experiences, memories and testimony in which there are set pages of a “Logbook” which the author has published over the years in newspapers and periodicals in the Euromediterranean countries.

It is also the pathway of the author’s private life: engineer, painter, photographer, but more and more an architect of peace and culture in the Euromediterranean scene over the last twenty years. It is the tale of a singularly human experience, in a political and historical moment when the Mediterranean takes on, at the turn of the century, a strategic importance for peace and shared development.

Fratricidal wars, forced migrations, ecological disasters, the absence of democracy and corruption are some of the causes which attack civil society. With these and others Michele Capasso acts by inviting people not to give up, as testified in the storied told in this book with a simple and efficient style: it is a mixture of stories and reports, where everything is rigorously true and corroborated in documents and images. The diary follows the day as a setting for 18 episodes in which the writing comes out of the main characters: the rubbish, the ambulance, the dog, the brothers of Gaza, the fat man, the funeral, the scalpel, the nurses, the probe, the parking attendant, the helicopter, the caress, the clandestine worker, the archive, the prostheses, the lawyer, the rainbow, the last kiss.

The whole sense of the narration is to show, in the encounters of the global society, the ancient knowledge that human beings from the area of the Mediterranean have developed, in the connections with the land, its inhabitants and the sea, confronting adversities of the day without losing faith in tomorrow.

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	Cover
	Prefazione by His Eminence Pietro Parolin Secretary of State of His Holiness
	L'immondizia Chapter 1
	L'ambulanza Chapter 2
	Il cane Chapter 3
	I fratelli di Gaza Chapter 4
	Il grassone Chapter 5
	Il funerale Chapter 6
	Il bisturi Chapter 7
	Gli infermieri Chapter 8
	Il sondino Chapter 9
	Il parcheggiatore Chapter 10
	L'elicottero Chapter 11
	La carezza Chapter 12
	Il clandestino Chapter 13
	L'archivio Chapter 14
	La protesi Chapter 15
	L'avvocato Chapter 16
	L'arcobaleno Chapter 17
	L'ultimo bacio Chapter 18
	Postfazione by Caterina Arcidiacono
	Comments
	Un costruttore della pace by S.B. Fouad Twal
	Il nostro del mare nostro by Nullo Minissi
	Il timoniere mediterraneo by Predrag Matvejevic
	Avviso ai naviganti by Alaa Al-Aswani
	Un breviario del dialogo by Claudio Azzolini
	Un esempio per i giovani by Leonzio Borea
	Acknowledgements