The project launching workshop: argumentative paper

The Conference on Culture in Marseille has provided an opportunity for thinking, in a collective, autonomous way, about the modalities of the "Translating in the Mediterranean" project, whose foundations were laid in 2005, and on its objectives, methods and priorities, starting with one of its particular focal areas: the written word. Being articulated in practical terms onto a more general discussion, the "Translation, writing, libraries" workshop was also a forum for raising questions about the potential role of libraries in the implementation of a Euro-Mediterranean cultural policy on translation. The present text (November 2008) gives an overview of the problematic and the issues involved.