ORDER OF PHYSICIANS - SURGEONS AND DENTISTS OF NAPLES AND PROVINCE - 2021
ITALY

For the dedication and commitment shown by the doctors of Naples and Province during the Covid 19 pandemic, saving lives.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 14 june 2021

BAN KI-MOON
Secretary General of the United Nations - SOUTH KOREA

The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki–moon has used his best endeavours to further the ideals of peace and international cooperation enshrined by the United Nations Charter – through actions to promote fundamental human rights, equality of men and women, international peace–keeping and security, and the economic and social advancement of all peoples. In particular, he been outspoken in his actions to resolve the conflict in Syria, and more generally, the countries in which the Arab Spring has produced difficult transitions and bloodshed.
Historical truth, old and new difficulties preventing the peace process serve to strengthen his determination to consider peace as the imperative basis for the future of the Mediterranean and the world.

Awarding Ceremony

DON ÁNGEL FERNÁNDEZ ARTIME - 2016
Rector Major of the Salesian Congregation

For the work in favour of Peace and concord among the peoples of the world, carried out by the Salesian Family, particularly in places where war rages: it is here that Salesians often constitute the only point of reference for men and women belonging to different faiths.
The Rector Major Don Ángel Fernández Artime is a true "builder of Peace"; with his role as Guide and Teacher of the entire Salesian Family - the Salesians, the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians and the Cooperators - he humbly nourishes and spreads hope in young people, who must approach life as "Hunters of the Positive" and spread the "True", the "Beautiful" and the "Good" as the foundation of civil, religious and social life.

Awarding Ceremony
Rome, 19 october 2016

MAHMŪD ABBĀS (ABŪ MĀZEN) - 2013
President of PALESTINA

President Mahmūd Abbās (Abū Māzen) has been the architect of constructive dialogue in the fraught peace process between Israel and Palestine. Thanks to his commitment, together with that of the entire Palestinian population, he has succeeded in achieving the grant of Observer State for Palestine before the United Nations, laying down the foundation stones for statehood of the State of Palestine, so that it can be free to enjoy its own territory in a spirit of peace and cooperation with its neighbouring States.
As an accomplished negotiator, he has taken dialogue beyond the confines of those involved the Peace Process itself, successfully advocating that the only way forward is through peaceful coexistence both in the Middle East and throughout the rest of the world.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 28 april 2013

LUIGI DE MAGISTRIS - 2011
Mayor of Naples - ITALY

Naples is one of the great capitals, which, during the course of history, has been able to “Think European” and “Breathe in a Mediterranean Way”. In the new geopolitical context generated particularly by changes in the Countries of the Southern Shore of the Mediterranean, the City of Naples - which has witnessed integration and coexistence among diverse identities for centuries - has taken on decisive role in changing the course of history.
This acknowledgement is both an act of esteem and a challenge so that the City of Naples, under the guidance of its Mayor Luigi di Magistris, can actively “Think European” and “Breathe in a Mediterranean Way” as a city founded on active competences and social participation.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 23 september 2011

FESTIVAL DELLE MUSICHE SACRE DEL MONDO DI FÈS - 2009
President Mohammed Kabbaj - MOROCCO

The Fez Festival of World Sacred Music represents one of the most important events in the world for the promotion of dialogue among different societies, cultures and religions. Thanks to the work of Mohammed Kabbaj it is an instrument for the construction of development and peace through the creation of a great coalition of shared values and interests.

Awarding Ceremony
Fès, 27 may 2009

S.M. RANIA AL-ABDULLAH - 2007
Queen of the Hashemite Kingdom of JORDAN

For Her constant work in defending the rights of children and safeguarding those of future generations, for Her commitment to endorsing women’s rightful role in society, attaining their legal and civil rights, protecting the education of young women and finally for Her constant engagement to integrate the different components of Arab societies into the global process.

Awarding Ceremony
Rome, 9 february 2007

HASNA EL BECHARIA - 2005
Singer - ALGERIA

A free and upright woman, Hasna comes from the South of the Algerian Sahara. Daughter of a family of gnawi musicians, she performs pop music mixed with her own compositions, accompanied by electric or classic guitar or by guembri. Her music expresses different artistic and spiritual forms and, at the same time, in a play of background and mutual protagonism, it allows different individual expressions and the synergy of an expert choral quality, producing different rhythms and tunes, where the aim of a common concert is only possible thanks to the motivation of a production where the ensemble is not given by a succession of reciprocally tolerant pieces.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 6 january 2005

NAGUIB MAHFOUZ - 2003
Nobel Prize for Literature - EGYPT

For the intensity of his inspiration and the quality of his style. Because through his art he has portrayed, with true emotion and integrity, the lives of humble inhabitants of the poorest neighbourhoods of his city. For his literary creativity which went beyond and has created for over fifty years a true “Arab human comedy”. For his capacity to go beyond the simple description of behaviours and habits and to transform it into an epopee of the human soul. For his courageous refusal of any fanaticism and exclusion. For the great contribution given to the international spreading of contemporary Arab literature. For his significant participation in the construction of a 21st Century humanism in the wake of Mediterranean historical knowledge.

Awarding Ceremony
Cairo, 18 october 2003

VINCENT DIEUTRE - 2013
Film Director

Vincent Dieutre lived in New York and Rome before devoting himself to cinema. Author of numerous writings on the link between cinema and contemporary art, he teaches at the film department of the University of Paris VII. As a filmmaker, he explores the "borderline between documentary and auto-fiction".
The Fondazione Mediterraneo awards him this distinction for having created a personal and humanist poetic system, capable of reinventing the writing of the self in solitude, separation and retreat, thus filling the human need to be perceived by the Other in order to feel alive. Dieutre's cinema is first and foremost word, a word that fills and personalises anonymous hotel rooms as well as entire cities.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 05 october 2013

DEDA (ASPETTANDO MAMMA/WAITING FOR MUM) - 2013
best short film of the director Nana Ekvtimishvili (GE) 2011

At the Trieste Film Festival, with whom the Fondazione Mediterraneo has been collaborating since1995, the 2013 Mediterranean Cinema Award for the best short film was awarded to “Deda” (Waiting for Mum) by Nana Ekvtimishvili. The winner is "Deda, Apettando Mamma" of Nana Ekvtimishvili (GE)

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 26 january 2013

APELE TAC, SILENT RIVER - 2012
Best short film by director Anca Miruna Lăzărescu, (DE/RO), 2011

The Mediterranean Cinema Award 2012 was assigned, during the Trieste Film Festival, at the best short-film in contest. Fondazione Mediterraneo collaborates with Trieste Film Festival since 1995. The winner is "Apele tac, silent river", Anca Miruna

Awarding Ceremony
Trieste, 25 january 2012

DER KLEINE NAZI (IL PICCOLO NAZISTA) - 2011
Best short film by director Petra Lüschow Petra Lüschow, GERMANY
Germany, 2010, 35mm, col., 14’, v.o. tedesca

The young German director explores the themes related to the need for dialogue among different cultures and the difficult and controversial relation between individual and power. As every year, the Wölkel family celebrates Christmas with grandmother. But this year something unexpected and shocking takes place: grandmother wants to recall the nazi Christmas of her young age. It is not a big problem, indeed, but it happens that just today they are waiting for a guest from Israel...

Awarding Ceremony
Trieste, 26 january 2011

VARIÁCIÓK (VARIAZIONI) - 2010
Best short‑film by Hungarian director Krisztina Esztergályos, UNGHERIA
Ungheria, 2009, DigiBeta, col., 28´, v.o. ungherese

The award has been assigned to “Variációk” where the young Hungarian director explores sexual relationships, provokes understanding of reality, shows awareness of visual style and talent for a precise cinema language. She shows compassion for her characters without any sentimentalism.

Awarding Ceremony
Trieste, 28 january 2010

LAURA MORANTE - 2009
Actress, ITALY

Versatile and professional actress. She worked with young and famous directors in many Mediterranean Countries: from Italy to France to the Iberian Peninsula, crossing all kinds of movies, from thriller to comedy, always with outstanding results thanks to her personality and her innate artistic gift.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 12 june 2009

FERZAN OZPETEK - 2007
Film Director, TURKEY

For his contribution to the spreading of values of dialogue in the Great Mediterranean, giving a decisive impulse to cultural and social interaction in the Euro-Mediterranean area.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 15 june 2007

YASMINE KASSARUI - 2005
Film Director, MOROCCO

Her film work “L’Enfant endormi” shows the lives of women left alone by their partners and their daily work in the cornfields to nourish their children and the old people of the village. These women are freed and emancipated from the authoritative male figures, they can choose and evaluate their lives affairs in a context that often represents them as the victims of millenary traditions, but that has started a process of cultural renewal.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 16 june 2005

PINO TORDIGLIONE - 2003
Film Director, ITALY

The film work of the Venice Screenings “The Stolen Christmas”, by Pino Tordiglione expresses in the originality, ingenuousness and simplicity of the cinematographic language, the Mediterranean culture and art emphasising, in its contents, the human values.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 12 december 2003

CORRADO BEGUINOT- 2012
Engineer - ITALY

For having, in his long career, dedicated his life to scientific research and design experimentation in the themes of territorial urban planning, resulting, at an international level, in the conception and promotion of the European inter-ethnic cabled city. With the Aldo Della Rocca Foundation, he represents the forerunner of the new wired inter-ethnic era as the basis for World Peace in which all the peoples of the earth, fraternally united, will be considered "One People in One City".

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 3 september 2012

ALESSANDRO ORTIS - 2012
Engineer - ITALY

A professional and a man who has dedicated and continues to dedicate himself, with unwavering commitment, to promoting institutions, bodies and initiatives of particular importance for an ever more advanced collaboration and cohesion between the Mediterranean countries.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 21 november 2011

SENEN FLORENSA PALAU - 2011
Director of the European Institute for the Mediterranean

For having contributed, first as Ambassador and then as Director of the European Institute for the Mediterranean in Barcelona, to promoting the values of dialogue and peace in the Euro-Mediterranean region, defending good practices in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.
For this reason, the Fondazione Mediterraneo, with the Accademia del Mediterraneo, awarded Senen Florensa Palau the Mediterranean Award "Silver Dolphin" 2011.

Awarding Ceremony
Barcellona, 07 October 2011

EMANUELE VITTORIO - 2011
Doctor of Dental Medicine

For his action in favour of the common good, through the timely and rigorous exercise of his profession as a doctor-dentist. For his active competence, solidarity and not giving up in the face of difficulties that for others were insurmountable.
His concern for the destitute and his continuous research into cutting-edge medical techniques ensured the resolution of complex problems, restoring dignity and quality of life, with an eye to the most needy.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 23 september 2011

BAGNO ELENA of GIOVANNI MORRA - 2011

It was born in Posillipo, where the millennial history of Great Human Cultures has intertwined philosophy with spirituality. Thanks to the active and silent commitment of Giovanni Morra and his children Mario and Antonella, Bagno Elena - with Terme Pausylia - constitutes a unique and precious place for well-being and quality of life: it is the example of a family that believes in the rebirth of Neapolitan entrepreneurship and that, with its dedication to the sea, continues the tradition of bathing establishments on stilts. This meritorious action is an example for the tourist rebirth of Naples and the preservation of the "Sea Resource".

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 23 september 2011

in memory of GUIDO GRIMALDI - 2011
Founder and President of the Grimaldi Group - ITALY

For having contributed through the diffusion of maritime connections and of the "Motorways of the Sea" - in the Mediterranean and in the World - to promote with farsightedness that "cross-fertilisation of civilisations" which is at the basis of shared development and peace. For this reason, the Fondazione Mediterraneo, together with the Accademia del Mediterraneo, awarded the Mediterranean Award "Silver Dolphin" 2011 to the memory of Guido Grimaldi.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 20 may 2011

H.E. Mgr. ROCCO FAVALE - 2010
Bishop of Vallo della Lucania - ITALY

His commitment to promote peace among peoples and strengthen solidarity in Cilento area are fundamental pillars of his action. He has the merit of allowing the realization of the monumental work “Totem for Peace” by Rutino Cathedral.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 13 june 2010

SERGIO PIAZZI - 2010
Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean - ITALY

His commitment and passion aiming at strengthening the role of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM) are unanimously recognized. Thanks to his commitment, it has been possible to harmonize the role of the Parliaments of Mediterranean Countries making them accept a shared view, especially about the values and fundamental rights of the human person.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 13 june 2010

in memory of BALTASAR PORCEL - 2010
Writer, journalist and literary critic - SPAIN

World-famous writer, acute and determined journalist, in his works Baltasar Porcel has told today’s society with precision and irony. Founder and director of the Catalan Institute of the Mediterranean he has turned his deeply Mediterranean culture into a political action, thanks to which Catalonia, Barcelona and Spain have been able to take on a first-rank role in the Euro-Mediterranean partnership.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 13 june 2010

in memory of GENNARO POMPILIO - 2010
President of Vesuvius Tour Operators - ITALY

A man who reminded us that words alone are not enough. His love for Vesuvius, as pioneer of tourism and coordinator of Vesuvius Tour Operators, show us how it is possible to promote peace and mutual respect through positive actions.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 4 january 2010

in memory of AHMED JEBLI - 2009
President of the University Cadi Ayyad of Marrakech - MAROCCO

La storia ha conosciuto più di una persona che, sebbene non abbiano avuto una ribalta mediatica, hanno avuto un ruolo straordinario negli eventi che segnano la vita di uno Stato.
History has known more than one person who, though without media renown, have played an extraordinary role in the events that mark the life of a State. Ahmed Jebli belongs to this gallery, for the contribution given to the promotion of knowledge and culture, especially in the academic field. The themes he envisaged have a high vision of education, always overcoming the borders of class and belonging. Ahmed Jebli‘s action falls within this framework, always aiming at understanding the reasons “of the other” and at developing friendship among the peoples of the Mediterranean. He was a reference point for the Fondazione Mediterraneo that wishes to pay a tribute to him by this acknowledgement.

Awarding Ceremony
Marrakech, 4 june 2009

ABDELWAHED RADI - 2007
President of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly and President of the Moroccan Parliament - MAROCCO

He is a great supporter of the Barcelona Declaration and, in particular, of the necessity to strength Euro-Mediterranean relationships. A defender of democracy, he voted his life to create a new humanism in order to transform the Mediterranean, through the promotion of dialogue, into a democratic area of knowledge and mutual respect.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 5 july 2007

in memory of MANUEL VAZQUEZ MONTALBAN - 2004
Writer - SPAGNA

A great Spanish writer, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán told the story of today’s society with irony and acumen through his main character: Pepe Carvalho. He was among the first to join the Fondazione Mediterraneo and this acknowledgment is not meant to be an institutional award, but rather a great warm remembrance from his “Mediterranean family”.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 4 january 2004

RAFFAELE LA CAPRIA - 2003
Writer - ITALY

His work represents a long meditation on the missed occasion of the single being and of the entire history, also an emblem of the Mediterranean, which from the missed occasioons is still tragically constructing its present.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 28 may 2003

in memory of Federico Bugno - 2003
Journalist and writer - ITALY

Federico Bugno produced some of the greatest journalistic pieces with his strong reportages, showing that in order not to succumb to globalisation, journalism had to be “democratised”. He belongs to one of the last “big ones” who flies high; from Tiananmen Square to the Berlin Wall and to Sarajevo.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 4 june 2003

in memory of Izet Sarajlic' - 2003
Poet - BOSNIA

Izet Sarajlic' was one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. He was born into an old Muslim family in Bosnia from which he learned the inalienable values of friendship, respect, and dialogue between cultures and civilisations: the Sarajlic' were a family that knew no grudges. He spent most of his life in Sarajevo, staying even during the siege of the city, for almost four years: the Bosnian capital broke the sad record of the century by becoming the 'Capital of Sorrow'. Izet stayed there: until the end. He could have left the city, but he did not want to. He was wounded not only in his soul. He lost two sisters, whose affection had saved his life several times. "What will I do now," he said, "I am used to being a brother". He was the 'voice of Sarajevo' and never stopped writing, continuing to wonder if it was of any use after all that had happened. It was all she could do. During the siege of Sarajevo, his former friends forgot Izet and his voice that turned into a cry: only a few, like the poet Slobodan Markovic', visited his fragile sleep shaken by machine-gun fire. Izet gave and lost more than anyone else. At the 'commemoration' of the thousandth day of the siege of Sarajevo, only his gaze communicated: words were superfluous. The Fondazione Laboratorio Mediterraneo published 'The Book of Farewells' in 1997 and Izet, on the first copy, wrote just one big word, next to a drawing of a flower: 'Thank you'. Today we want to remember and thank a great poet for his teaching and his work, a man who reminded us that literature alone is not enough. We must promote peace and mutual respect with concrete actions.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 4 june 2003

alla memoria di MARCELLO GIGANTE - 2002
Professor, expert in papyrus - ITALY

In the transformation period started after the second world war, Marcello Gigante, Iike Carducci in his time, gave voice to the relation between ancient culture and modern conscience, reconsidering the text of Herodotus and interpreting the historical lines of the classic world in the mark of the Nomos Basileus, the sovereignty of the law. Translator of Diogenes Laertius and Director of the collections “La Scuola di Platone” and “La scuola di Epicuro”, he deepened the study of ancient philosophy, in particular of Epicurus and Philodemus of Gadara, through the study of Herculaneum papyri. His essays on Leopardi, Settembrini, Quasimodo and on the classical culture of the period between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are focused on the relation between ancient and modern time. He was editor of “Parola del Passato”, director of the “Studi di Filologia Classica”, National President of the Italian Association of Classical Culture. His publications, more than 700, have always contained highly significant descriptions and views. Among his works, it is worth remembering: “Le Elleniche di Ossirinco”, “Nomos Basileus”, “Civiltà delle forme letterarie nell’antica Pompei”, “Classico e mediazione”.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 4 january 2002

in memory of PAOLO BUFALINI - 2002
Senator of the Italian Republic - ITALY

History has known more than one personalities who, though without media renown, have played an extraordinary role in the political events that mark the life of a State. Paolo Bufalini belongs to this gallery: for the contribution given during the 30’s to the creation of one of the most important and active anti-fascist groups, the Roman one, also because he gathered young intellectuals who later on played an important role on the political and intellectual scene of the post-war period, for the contribution given to the Italian resistance in Yugoslavia; as animator, after the liberation, of the Autonomist Southern Movement, in Sicily and in the South, struggling for Agrarian Reform and modernization of the Country; as a strong and wise mind In the action for the renewal of P.C.I., the unity of the left party, the convergences among all democratic forces. He dealt with all these issues with a high vision of politics, always overcoming the class and party borders, like a Cavour-style statesman. This is the framework in which falls the exceptional work made by Bufalini in drafting a foreign policy of détente, of understanding of the other’s reasons, of friendship among the peoples of the Mediterranean; the activities aiming at guaranteeing religious peace and Improving relations between the Italian State and the Vatican, through the renewal of the Concordat. And he did so as a laic, persuaded that only a lay State and the respect of the religious conscience of the Individual and of the communities can defeat the fundamentalism that has blooded the word for centuries, until today. Bufalini was also a serious specialist in Greek and Latin and a careful and acute translator of Horace, thus telling us that the mingling of culture and politics is vital and necessary to make noble and effective public commitment, to improve one’s country and the mutual knowledge of peoples.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 4 january 2002