This exhibition, held at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina from 26 December 2004 to 16 January 2005, was part of the Mediterranean Voices project: an ethnographic research project into the cosmopolitan oral heritage of residents of several historic urban quarters in the Mediterranean. Funded by the European Union, the partners included the London Metropolitan University, the American University of Beirut and the Center for Cultural Preservation of Bethlehem. The project’s main objective was to collect the oral histories and memories of residents living in or who had cultural/familial associations in particular neighborhoods in the Mediterranean cities of Alexandria, Ancona, Beirut, Bethlehem, Chania, Granada, Istanbul, Las Palmas, Marseilles, Palma de Mallorca (Ciutat de Mallorca), North Nicosia, South Nicosia, Split and Valetta. As the name indicates, the exhibition showed how the inhabitants of each city coexisted and shared common spaces during crises. It explored themes such as cosmopolitanism, migration, nostalgia, perceptions of security, identity, ethnicity, citizenship, tradition and modernity, mobility and perceptions of the other. This exhibition then traveled on to Beirut, Fiorli and Bethlehem.