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A Week in Art & Culture
(02/02/2006 -
09/02/2006)
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By The IOL Art & Culture Team
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Feb.
9, 2006
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Representing
Palestine in photographs and videos
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Das
Book
8/02/2006
Time
Warner earlier this week agreed to sell its publishing arm—with imprints such
as Little, Brown and Warner Books—to Lagardèra, a French media company, for
about $537 million…
Source:
Slate
Representing
Palestine in Photographs and Videos
8/02/2006
For
the generation of Palestinians who were exiled from their land in 1948, it was
the rusted key and dog-eared land deed. For the generation who lived through the
first intifada in the late 1980s, it was the stone and keffiyeh…
Source:
The Daily Star
They
Saved the Internet's Soul
8/02/2006
In
some alternative universe out there, the world is using a very different
internet. It's a network without sex and violence, devoid of four-letter words
and racy ideas, subject to constant monitoring by censors and harsh punishment
to those who cross the line into controversy…
Source:
Wired News
Indian
Painter Sorry for Nude Art
8/02/2006
India's
most famous artist has apologized for a painting in which he represented the
country as a nude goddess…
Source:
BBC News
Exacting
Revenge on Celluloid
7/02/2006
Don't
fool with the honor of the Turks - that is the unequivocal message of a Turkish
production that opened Friday and promises to be a blockbuster with its
nationalistic overtones, gory action scenes and no-holds-barred
anti-Americanism…
Source:
The Daily Star
Ertegun
Nominated for Grammy Music Awards
6/02/2006
Turkish-born
Ahmet Ertegun, founder and head of Atlantic Records in America, has been
nominated in the 48th Annual Grammy Music Awards….
Source:
Zaman
Historic
Cairo Offers Visitors More Sights Than Ever Before
6/02/2006
With
an enthralling past, Cairo, the oldest and most populous city in the Middle
East, is full to the brim with historic buildings, each with their own spot in history.
One of the most interesting newly restored sights is Manzel Zainab Khatoun or
Zainab Khatoun's house,
and the district surrounding it, Al-Darb al-Ahmar…
Source:
The Daily Star
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