Qui sommes-nous ?

The Euro-Mediterranean Solidarity Forum (FORSEM) was founded by community activists and academics in solidarity with popular uprisings that have affected countries on the southern shore of the Mediterranean since late 2010.

These uprisings overthrew leaders and regimes once seen as immovable. Since then, people across the region have experienced both hope and concern.

FORSEM believes that democratic change, social justice, and civic freedoms are central challenges for the region, and that the Mediterranean space is shaped by deep human, historical, linguistic and cultural ties between its northern and southern shores.

Convinced that people can build more bridges than walls, FORSEM commits to:

1. Developing cultural and scientific exchanges between both shores of the Mediterranean.
2. Promoting decentralized cooperation projects.
3. Fostering dialogue and fighting prejudice and misinformation.
4. Creating spaces for debate on the future of the Mediterranean region.
5. Supporting collective civic reflection on Mediterranean societies.

Scientific Committee

President: Zaher HARIR, IT research engineer.

• Frédéric ABÉCASSIS, historian, lecturer at ENS Lyon
• Lahouari ADDI, political scientist, professor at IEP Lyon
• Tahar KHALFOUNE, doctor of law, academic
• Amar MOHAND-AMER, historian, researcher at CRASC Oran
• Daniel RIVET, historian, emeritus professor
• Pierre Guichard, historian, emeritus professor

Publications

• L’Algérie d’hier à aujourd’hui, quel bilan, Éditions Bouchène, 2014.
• Les Assises de la soummam, soixante ans après quelles leçons ? Éditions El Ibriz, Algiers, 2018.
• Mélanges offerts en l’honneur de l’historien Gilbert Meynier, L’Harmattan, 2019.
• Etats-nations contre les minorités, Éditions En toutes lettres, Casablanca, 2023.