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الساتل للعلوم الإنسانية: 2518-539X
الساتل للعلوم التطبيقية: 2518-5969
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الساتل للعلوم الإنسانية: 2518-5403
الساتل للعلوم التطبيقية: 2518-5977

‘Places and spaces, real and imagined, play a vital role in the formation and maintenance of cultural identity’. Explore this statement using a media case study of your choice
Date Published: 2019-02-15
Adel Ibrahim Ghawalek (المعهد العالي للعلوم والتقنية - مصراتة)
ghawalek@gmail.com

Abdullah Shibani Shaaban (المعهد العالي للعلوم والتقنية - مصراتة)
Salem Al-taher Abu Talag (كلية الآداب – جامعة مصراتة)

Abstract... Cultural space, which refers to a geographical scale defining boundaries (Bird et al., 1993), plays a vital role in the daily existence of an individual, groups, citizens, and others. It sometimes defines their uniqueness or differences from other cultural spaces. According to Smith (1993), the cultural area has different distinct labels which include the body of an individual, home, community, urban, region, national and global. Each of these distinct labels offers different characteristics when it comes to the formation and maintenance of one’s cultural identity. Through a case on a region’s travel website, this paper explores the cultural space of a region called the Mediterranean, which covered some countries within the three continents of Asia, Europe, and Africa. It determines how some regional components of Mediterranean differ in many terms including the disparity of culture or way of life. This study will help in identifying some disparity and similarities regarding cultural identities within the Mediterranean, which is vital in understanding the context of their cultural spaces.


Keywords : Cultural identity, Cultural space, Mediterranean life style, Civilizations.