ah ah, the mediterranean was once a major crossroads at the heart of the ancient world. today it has become a barrier separating europe from africa. is there anything left of a past one's share and what do today's distinct cultures have in common? journalists, xena, l moss. rock and joe power abdul karim, travel the coast of the mediterranean, in search of answers. do you see yourself as a tunisian junior used to go the rights and responsibilities? how can you afford to see these animals? god help you with join us to get to know the people and their dreams. a mediterranean with

the come to egypt, the land of the pharaohs. the north african nation has around 700 kilometers of mediterranean coast. i don't know. i don't recall mon only monday unless that arabic phrase mean the mother of the world. i love it because that's what lots of people in the arabic speaking world called egypt, uniform in many associate egypt with the pyramids. there's another science under his active, the mediterranean math, isn't today we're in northern egypt about to take an exciting journey along the coast. because doing this with nash bottom, egypt is considered the cradle of civilization. the pyramids of visa are among the oldest buildings in the world. they live just a few kilometer from the capital,

cairo, and the nile, the life blood of the country flows into the mediterranean sea. egypt connects north africa with the middle east to the country is home to over 100000000 people buy journey begins in the 2nd largest city alexandria. it's major library. the video taker, alexandrovna which opened in 2002 is right here on the promenade. it's not my 1st visit and once again i'm struck by how much egyptian society is characterized by stark contrast. oh, very conservative values collide with modernity. i wonder what impact those differences have on dating and finding a partner. chima ali founded the muslim dating away a woman in egypt or in the middle east. it's difficult for

hair to like have dates like in what happens in the was western countries. so that's why when we thought of fag creating immobile application that helped a young muslim women and men find their life partner, shy, mind or colleagues, you scientific methods and psychological testing to find the right partner for every one of us. know what the most important thing is, how the app is structured. it has to be modern without conflicting with religious and cultural values. the social consensus is that women should marry young and have lots of children that i didn't get the idea interested. i got any idea came to me and the other found is because we have these experiences. however, way people talk the way my mother's friends, but to rent

a psychological question. yes, i do think she would come to me and say, he thought, oh, but ever since i was 24, i've been under that psychological pressure even though i work and unsuccessful. and i have lots of hobbies that i travel one, but none of that is recognized by egyptian families. they see marriage is the solo indicator. if a girl success, i guess i have been vincent as the goes outside of school mode, walk on the dinner list wise, the focus on islam if and when religion may be no longer play such a role in marriage today, loyal outgoing has the name of it we have the feeling muslims have concerns about getting to know each other through dating of the thought of these days that the young muslim is want to use something modern with something technically up to date . but at the same time they don't want something that their parents might say, as i ha, ha ha much all they inappropriate all wrong, hot on a wave, overlooked by fema. what about relationships outside marriage? here? think of how we know. the idea with have iea is that it's meant to marriage phone.

of course, we don't tell anyone and use the words that they have to get married within a certain time, but they should understand that to relationship they start through this out. it is serious. i mean, i was laid it, but i'm not. i've been fresh fish straight from the mediterranean for saw him. it's a hobby for others. a tough way of making a living with but a passion for seafood unites all alexandria. what a tell you a little i the 1st port of call for all manner of specially prepared seafood is the restaurant to fear situated right by the water. the kitchen is overseen by head shout mohammed jumper, who it is of a back was a mark or not my camera was going that again. i just ask you to some of these fish here. moses,

are they all from the mediterranean around alexandria to allow the whole from the mediterranean. we don't have any from the red sea. i shall, once that want you. melissa. somebody, it's called moose every my as wise official. it tastes very good fried voice and you can also stuff it. you can have it with butter, but it's best to try to of the hagel elementary. she's the star. someone told me about something called single in getty, or like to make son gary. i cut open a lunch, fish celine auto from the not on the hook, and getting the let's have saturday, sunday and let's take this one younger doesn't get if you can make somebody with this to right, buddy. now daughter of course and some squid, i let me give, i'm a grid. yeah. and you'll show me how to make it all. am a special feeling over, sorry. today's saturday things are busy in the kitchen. i'm getting hungry. the oil and lemon mixture for guy hiding from the oil and lemon

mixture that it was a boy. it's a very alexandrian thing. it's for the fish. we use it for the filling garlic. so larry act deal mustard and spices. but it's not saying, you know, this is son gary. he is our fish. first, we spread sold on the baking tray so the fish doesn't stick will take by the fish all day one and you do one. okay, what about that with? so we do it like this without hands, oil and lemon. you take lemon. and that's how you make your fish. diamond went to, oh my god, i've never cooked anything like this get am? yes. just like that. that i'm the new. ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. here.

that's the mussa i what's that? the mussa fish we filled out. oh yeah, i recognize it now. nest, walk the shift of what do most people order here in the sun, gary fish. and because the source mixture is really special, you mean one of the best sources we have in alexandria. ok. any international i and i thought what i just holler back and asking the day and we could still dwelling, we can prepare anything that comes out of the scene from out of me when i don't. i'm little up until the 1950s, greek battalion, french and british migrants lived and worked in alexandria to day. the port city with a population of around 5000000 has some major social problems like poverty and the housing shortage in 2019. and egyptians average monthly income was around $235.00

euros. daniel. the i love the agenda, june apprenticeship her study. i only went to school until grade 9. then at 8th grade, why? i didn't finish school. i didn't. education doesn't feed. you learning a trade or a job pays more from that. my father died when i was 6. there was no one to look after. mason. i okay. i think going on a long have you been working? i'm 29. what is emma? better? what age did you start at 14. dollars. 14 any. what? yes. i'm leaving alexandria and heading to ourselves, bought just under 3 hours away by car it situated on both the mediterranean sea and the nile delta. in for thousands of years, the river has been egypt, lifeline vanessia in arrested. and now hearing that i said,

i mentioned it was an arabic means head of the tongue. when behold, it's called that because behind me, the longest river in the world, the night flows into the mediterranean window direct in mrs. mailed us. so here it was. people here find that really special august was on. this is as he didn't have another special thing about tommy at a province here, is that it has the country's 1st female christian governor in not going to meet her, who just a few kilometers further down the nile. delta is the city of damita. it's a thriving port and the capital damita province. mm. in 2018. doctor minous'. a lot me shy. it became the 1st copd christian to head of provincial government in egypt. and she's only the 2nd woman ever to govern. one of the countries 27 provinces. hello, to live in the beginning, but it will let them get in love. the hon hunching is moving towards the

empowerment of women. young denials has them. the, i'm very interested in women being financially socially and culturally strong in it's one of the most imposing prerequisites for a modern country. i had the most, most, the custodian in predominantly muslim egypt in estimated 10 percent of the population are christian. most of them coptic christians, minot a, what me show you, who was a christian herself, is heavily protected by security guards. yet radical islamists have repeatedly attacked institutions like churches and schools. and christians also faced state discrimination here. blast the amount of fi. sure. i mean, what does this experience mean for you? but mostly i chose, you represent egypt, but also a religious minority met any, even if christians in the country don't like to see themselves so minority at the end of the day, there are far fewer of you than there are muslims double yet at the bottom of in his belly, ear i was there a please. i took it as

a sign that egypt has changed. that people don't get advantages because of their background when a instead positions are allocated to candidates because they suitability for the job get it now. and in edward to the school, we now have a constitution that protects the rights of christians, if you more dixie they rather for laws that protect the rights of women and christians. and also those of other religions. understood, unbelievable. hague was he a law states this? but the reality is different than human. can i s by to be, for example, the law me encourage the restoration of churches, and it is a lot of social mood is different and joly muzzled a lot of your football kellum, this all fixed, he'll get then had the lo fi, there might be a few troublemakers in some villages, way of bothered coral. charlotte that was, that can be the case of any time in any way. it debatable will be labilly, but those are exactly the examples for at the home where we can teach people accept and respect animal food, the time will not let them to the curb, but cooler, the couple of those in coma would carryover. lemme lemme backyard musser. some

egyptians say that they're happy and i say egypt is in a phase of positive change that a year with other lahardo yearly, but other se freedoms are being suppressed. come out and political views are being suppressed. i. c, a, c, and there are political prisoners. martha ali and what kind of egypt do you see today, anthem, but let me only says he has a samsung because i learned that movies damage to that they are simply at times when certain things aren't possible out or by than what the letter couldn't of you can and now, after the upheaval and the revolution really, it's easy to sway public opinion and unsettled people with demonstration. as the mother, if you, what the country just can't handle that right now. mila, that blood, egypt has just experienced an economic collapse off than way. our v denny in belk will look at why and in the home. but why can't you have a functioning economy and a chain should have a model. the one lay hawaii talking about security matters here. i can't comment to mother dylan fever. and since the so called europe, spring and 2011, many have been fighting for freedom, democracy, and human rights. it's been

a hard struggle, especially since opt out of fatigue. i. c, c became president from damita, i'm traveling to poor side, 50 kilometers away. the modern industrial port city lies on the suez canal. completed in 1869. the canal connects the mediterranean with the red sea. these days, most vessels that pass through the waterway or container ships from the far east, or oil tankers from the gulf. on the ferry, i mean architect mohammed hassan. he's offered to give me a historical tour of the city with the where between 2 continents, between africa and asia, for it was, is on the asian side and poor side on the african side or flawed is the newer city

where it wasn't built until 1926, but while force i eat dates from 1859, the city was built for suez canal workers. off was grand mosque isn't the only interesting thing the city has to offer. the colonial architecture was also remarkable. the european influence is visible everywhere. the canal was nationalized in 1956 by egyptian president. gum i ob denise it before that 4th. what was mainly home to foreigners working for the franco british suez canal company sheila hm had a tell me about what you do. connie, if, when we run tours to make additions aware of the history of their country and also for people from abroad. course i eat is not a tourist destination. when you come to a, if people tell you,

go to la la swan's wash, carmel shake, the hob hires the alexandria. no one says, of course i am site and why is history important to you base the mirror? the future. if you have no history that you have no future, it was felt much of egypt depends on tourism. and po, if one has more to offer than expected so much walking around makes you hungry and something sweet would be the perfect pick me up. we had to a local bakery. oh, this is delicious. it's very, very, very sweet. there's, but absolutely delicious. i'm going to take some to go in british most of the day, monday it. mm hm. and, and why do people in this region always want their sweets to be really sweet or healthier with loads of shorter and like in europe and my cell on there. they don't like things to be as sweet as here. i know we couldn't handle personally. i like sugar, but what do you think job,

you know of eyes of people want things to be sweet. our lives a hot enough. why shouldn't we at least sweet now food a little before they welcome to clean or maybe it's because sugar makes you happy with it makes you feel good and yeah, a little bit about sugar are not the main thing is it tastes great. we also bought a little bread to feed the seagulls on the ferry, back to poor site with yes, i think it was good. so good. i don't want to philosophize, but people who live by the see. don't see any borders in front of them. no, but nobody can control them. so i thought they always want to freedom the want something better majority of them and i'm not saying we're better people know them reflect people on the coast is have that feeling that you see it reflected in the residence, of course i. e, they hate borders. that rebellious we've got a good for the most of them. all that's important in egypt right now

with coastal cities or gateways to the world where people with different backgrounds and cultures come together. foresight is the origin of seems to me and music. traditionally, only men play a stringed instrument. what at the all, how he yacht club, we meet him on huddle and her friends. they found that the 1st female seems to me on their defying social norms and finding a little freedom through music i ah,

i'm sure why did you join the group i with fanny, i would have liked music generally, but in seconds i like the group. you know, what is the most important thing in my life? if you're going to get up to it, so when you say, i don't know how when you sing along with the liar, it brings laughter and joy. it's important like instrument. it just makes you happy with a body and too many there must be people who say it,

but you're girls and has scarred me and a female voices are indecent. right? yes. we heward a lot to get out. what's your reaction? i didn't get them unless we don't pay attention to what people say, and that's the last thing they think about it down the drain to make it come true, no matter how hard it is for love and having them hang amazon ahead. what do your family say with at least friday the day, and then i've been on a sunday. so can we ask you something? i think whatever, when your daughter said she wanted to sing, what did you say? she likes it. it makes her happy. i don't have jack turned it all. i'm official. i'm always by their side. i'm like the mother to them all and yeah, but i go everywhere with them. but even when i travel and i'm of us in homes with but if one of them didn't wear a hand, the car would be okay to move on. i had last. yes, no problem at all. it was what's most important is how she interact with other

people and a and that she's decent time. i thought of jen, the headscarf question won't come up to me. i'm not like a now back to the music. thanks very much from poor saeed. i'm returning to alexandria where my journey along egypt, mediterranean coast began a few days ago. whenever i travel, i always read the local newspapers. but according to reporters without borders, press freedom is extremely limited in egypt. with the you and hcr says there are more than 250000 refuge, he's living in egypt,

many of them from sit down in the hall of the sacred heart church. we meet amina, on my city the 22 year old started the one us initiative in 2018. 2 the goal is to empower sudanese children through art and drama workshops and help them integrate into egyptian society. i know his yes. i know it. well. hello. hi. how are you? and all of you later i play and i have a nice day back to that. i think the getting off the data, how have shaddick market? i'd like to join your workshop. what do i have to do? to kill can all the way to william. let so sounds up ok anyway. but i think we have now a lot of sam name and a loud noise. and we'll make a movement that says something about ourselves. it doesn't matter. walked in your head. your body jumped dance. anything? well, stock cameron. i hegan. my name is amelia. i'm. this is the movement that says something about me, but i me my name is eileen and this is my me. i'm

boss my i'm, this is my movement and that's their job. i'm java and this is my movement. i'm silva, what's the main reason you jumped on the downtown and from a boy in the most important reason is the bullying experience spice to denise children and refugee children in general. so it mainly affects sudanese children on the street that schema lauren housing estate. because a half of the hands that discriminated against because if ask in color, difference in diversity in society has met with rejection on beginning to perform a little play for you now. okay. hey adam, you've been pole. don't make fun of me being told your height is fine with me. i get your 2 tone a bit. you pretty have to find clothes that fetal for. yes, it takes a long time to find my size. you probably find you quite easily. well,

bobby mccain aliya made fun of ada. mm hm. that makes me sad. did you see how adam reacted with it's like i'm saying mean things to you and you answer back in a friendly way. i get, i'm making fun of you kiss and i shouldn't do that. i mean for so that was a threat. i well sense and usually how did that, what are the important issues for you right now? i didn't look the problem in egypt is people thinking in a right and left, black and white with everyone thinks that if someone is different from them, they must be an enemy be confronted. but in reality, diversity makes a strong young head to the yellow mm. in

the next morning, i leave egypt and its mediterranean coast with mixed feelings. it's a country with a long and great history. what it's present is marked by enormous social and political difficulties. trinity mentioned he and i found the people here in egypt, incredibly openness and by the food was superb or. and it's been wonderful to experience the country, our scientist about us, about at the same time, it was difficult to get to know each of the way i'd hoped to. how did i be involved? we always had minders with us at the end. getting filming permits was very, very complicated and switch off. sometimes i noticed that people were afraid of expressing their opinions, which makes you realize that the country isn't so free, so high with,

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seen of almost rock and to far abdul karim drift along with exploring modern lifestyles and mediterranean youth. where has history left its traces. reading people hearing their dreams of mediterranean journey this week on d. w. how far does one person walk in a lifetime? we such as estimate that over the course of 80 is the average person covers between 82860000 kilometers. that's like walking around the earth equator $3.00 to $4.00 times. but it's only possible if our feet are in good.