EC EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER PROGRAMS: Equality

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Equality

Yesterday we were lucky enough to be able to visit one of the Refugee sites in Catania. In this place, we gathered as a circle and heard people's stories and struggles they have faced in having to leave their home countries and come here. What I found truly interesting and humbling about this, is that not one of them complained or seemed unhappy. In fact, they all were extremely grateful for the life they are now living and were more than happy to share their stories with us. One that really touched me was talking about equality and how to him, everyone is equal and he will never judge anyone and is all about peace and finding inner happiness. It really made me smile hearing how much they embrace equality even though they are not the same race and religion. I enjoyed hearing how equal they all were to not only each other, but everyone they meet.

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EC Eastern Security Studies Program

In the summer of 2011, as the "Arab Spring" was unfolding and the "Eurozone Crisis" was entering its second year, the Emmanuel College Eastern Mediterranean Security Studies Program was established in Crete, as a way to make the location the classroom. Beyond the grand theoretical, historical and political understanding that can be achieved through reading and classroom discussion and exchange, a more immediate, intimate and truer appreciation of the complexities can only achieved by experiencing the cultures, languages of personal interaction.

Since 2012 students have been able to combine an intensive curricular study, with the experience of immersion and living in a local setting. The geopolitical and geoeconomic forces that have acted in the region for centuries, can be identified in the classroom, but they can only be understood by being there. This year's EC EMSS Program will add a fourth week of study, experience and exploration and will also travel to the islands of Rhodes, and Cyprus. In Rhodes we will be partnering with the Prefecture of Southern Aegean and the Aegean University, while in Cyprus we will be hosted by the University of Nicosia.