The Mediterranean Foundation is an international non-profit Organisation established in 1994 in Naples, with the aim of promoting dialogue and peace in the Mediterranean area.

UNESCO: OFFICE IN DHAKA

He fears that the unacceptability of otherness is spreading in the Mediterranean area, threatening international co-operation, and that extremism is becoming a substitute for democratic values.

UNESCO: WHO IS THE OTHER?

Opponents of Turkey's joining the EU are offering up a consolation prize by way of creating some sort of Mediterranean free-trade area that Turkey could join.

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Banias is a predominantly Sunni town on the Mediterranean, although the broader coastal area is an Alawite heartland.

NPR: Syrian Troops Advance In Central City Of Homs

However, scientists think this interbreeding could have occurred outside Europe, in the eastern Mediterranean or Middle East region (the area archaeologists call the "Levant"), and quite probably even deeper in time - some 80, 000-90, 000 years or so ago.

BBC: Last-stand Neanderthals queried

San Francisco's long history as a destination for Asian, Latin American and Mediterranean immigrants shows up in data from Pillsbury: Bay Area consumers buy much more enchilada sauce, avocados (for guacamole), teriyaki sauce, olive oil and marinades than the national average.

ECONOMIST: The healthiest city

The villages are in an area critical to controlling a corridor between Syria's Mediterranean ports and Hezbollah's base in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.

WSJ: Strikes in Syria Raise Alarm

The Mediterranean coastal fringes have a Mediterranean climate with some rain between October and March, but the vast area of desert inland has very little rain at all and here some of the highest temperatures in the world have been recorded.

BBC: Libya

Israel has an important stake not only in those programs, but in certain U.S. programs, like the one that would create a sea-based, wide-area defense system that would allow the United States, by stationing a single naval cruiser in the Eastern Mediterranean in a crisis, to add a valuable layer to Israel's missile defenses.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: About as Radical as The Reaganites