Map of the Mediterranean

After a poem by Antoine Cassar

The poem Map of the Mediterranean describes the shapes of the Meditarrean Sea from all four cardinal directions, in relation to history of its people, including ancient and contemporary migrations.

Mappa tal-Mediterran is a poem in 16 stanzas, describing the shapes of the Mediterranean Sea, its costline and some of its major and minor ıslands, in relation to the early and modern histories of the Mediterranean peoples.

Antoine Cassar is a Maltese poet, translator and a creative activist for migrants’ rights and universal freedom of movement.

The video was produced during a video workshop at the Sudanese Migrant Association in Hamrun, Malta, conducted by Sabine Küper and Thomas Büsch.

Idea – Heidi de Carlo

Camera – Mohamed Ibrahim