054 - CULTURAL CHANGES AND NEW OPENINGS

ROTARY N° 10 – pages 42-44 – 1/12 – 2014

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The point of view

My name is Giuseppe Samir Eid, partner of RC Milan Southeast. As a Rotarian, I want to make our voice heard so that the political bodies, together the European Parliament, will always be effective promoters of justice, freedom, and peaceful co-existence among the people of the Mediterranean area. The vast majority of Arabs live in extreme poverty because demographic development is not accompanied by adequate economic growth. We need a radical change in the formation of citizens, a problem of culture, in order to make everyone understand that they are equal and that violence is intolerable.

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060 - THE MIGRATORY MOVEMENT

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IS IT AN UNSTOPPABLE PHENOMENON?

ROTARY, OPINIONS – pages 42-43 – 1/KNOWLEDGE TO CONVIVE AND BUILD PEACE – 2015

Is the movement of peoples from Africa and the Middle East unstoppable?

The emigration to the Western world, of Muslims and Christians, tends to increase irreversibly; the disastrous social situation is knowingly exploited by organizations that have set up a real trafficking of human beings.

It had not always been like this

Between the 19th and 20th centuries, millions of Europeans migrated to Africa and settled there, contributing substantially to the economic and cultural development of African countries; without taking root in the social fabric, they found themselves expelled and returned to their countries of origin. After the Second World War, African countries embarked on a strong campaign of demographic development with the result that over fifty years they tripled the number of their inhabitants, causing a growing impoverishment. In the same period Europe grew economically with a richer, older, stable demographic population; a gap that young Africans are trying to bridge exposes the Western Christian population to a “peaceful” invasion by peoples who are very far away culturally with different customs and traditions.

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063 - RELATIONS WITH THE ARAB WORLD PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE

ROTARY, Opinions – pages 52-55 – 1/06-2016

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Being hopeful by looking at the past, living the present, projecting towards the future. In the last few years, the Arab world has been hit by unrest, revolutions, civil wars that have culminated in massacres and indiscriminate killings of minorities that are not in line with the beliefs of certain groups that have proclaimed themselves the only religious representatives of the population. I wonder how it is possible that, at the dawn of the third millennium, people are killing to deny religious freedom. These abominable situations not far from our cities cannot leave us indifferent, so a mention of certain events in the history of the Arabs, both Christians and Muslims, can give us a better understanding of how the current context has arisen and can help us prevent negative consequences for the future.

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