abstract:The Mediterranean Games are a multi-sport games held every four years, mainly for nations bordering the Mediterranean Sea, where Europe, Africa and Asia meet. The idea was proposed at the 1948 Summer Olympics by Muhammed Taher Pasha, chairman of the Egyptian Olympic Committee, and they were first held in 1951.
His name is Ibrahim Bashir Shanibah, 38, a former member of Libya's national team who represented his country abroad at the 1997 MediterraneanGames in Italy.
The national Olympic committee will have to firm up funding for the MediterraneanGames, which are being held in late June in Mersin, Turkey geographically close to Cyprus yet difficult to reach because of the frayed relations between the countries.