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A Week in Art & Culture
(23/02/2006 - 02/03/2006)
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By The IOL Art & Culture Team
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Mar.
02, 2006
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H.E. Kofi Annan |
Show
and Tell Online
02/03/2006
After
decades of devotion, the British teenager is falling out of love with the
television. For many, the old TV set is no longer the first thing they turn to
after a day at school. Sadly for teachers, it's not always homework that kids
are turning to as a substitute,…
Source:
The Guardian
The
Memoir MoMA Declined to Publish
01/03/2006
William
S. Rubin, the eminent longtime curator of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), died,
aged 78, at his weekend home on 22 January and has now been buried in Jerusalem
on the Mount of Olives…
Source:
The Art Newspaper
Four
Nights on the Borders of Art and Politics at Cinema Sofil
01/03/2006
Lebanese,
it sometimes seems, are nearly as consumed by film as they are by politics.
Beirutis will have a chance to slake their yen this week when the International
Festival of Creative Film and Video (IFoCFaV) occupies Achrafieh's Cinema Sofil…
Source:
The Daily Star
'Too
Late in History to Go Back to Wars of Religion'
27/03/2006
The
following speech was delivered on Sunday by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan at
the opening session of the second meeting of the High Level Group for the
Alliance of Civilizations…
Source:
The Daily Star
Rickman
Slams 'Censorship' of Play About US Gaza Activist
28/02/2006
A
New York theatre company has put off plans to stage a play about an American
activist killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza because of the current
"political climate" - a decision the play's British director, Alan
Rickman, denounced yesterday as "censorship"…
Source:
The Guardian
Fund-Raising
Campaign for Prophet Web Site
26/02/2006
Al-Balagh
Cultural Society, which owns IslamOnline.net, has launched a fund-raising
campaign for its new affiliate Web site on Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings
be upon him),…
Source:
Islam Online
Da
Vinci Code 'Copied Book Ideas'
27/02/2006
The
High Court is due to hear a claim that bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code
copied ideas of two other authors…
Source:
BBC News
Reward
Offered for Rio Artworks
27/02/2006
The
Picasso, Dali, Matisse and Monet paintings were stolen from the Chacara do Ceu
museum in Rio de Janeiro while carnival festivities were in full swing…
Source:
BBC News
Internships
Open Horizons for Young Filipino Muslims
27/02/2006
A
new internship program is opening new horizons for young Filipino Muslims,
giving them a life-time chance to polish their professional skills by learning
first-hand in the work places of big corporations in Mindanao and Manila…
Source:
Islam Online
America's
Online Censors
24/02/2006
Google,
Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco Systems are under fire from Congress for helping
China censor and prosecute political dissidents. But a proposed law to guide
technology companies doing business abroad raises troubling questions for
Internet users everywhere…
Source:
The Nation
Ten
Days in a Desert Town Going Bust
17/02/2006
Emptied
of its residents, the Jordanian town of Ruwayshed could be a movie set for any
derelict town along a desert highway to someplace else. As it's Ruwayshed, it is
the last stop on the road to the Iraqi border…
Source:
The Daily Star
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