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A Week in Art & Culture
(13/04/2006 -
20/04/2006)
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By the IOL Art & Culture team
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Apr.
20, 2006
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Floyd
Star Switches Concert Venue
19/04/2006
Former
Pink Floyd star Roger Waters has switched the venue for a solo concert in Israel
following pressure from dozens of Palestinian artists…
Source:
BBC News
Songs
From a Small Island
19/04/2006
The
British Library has captured on CD the sounds of some of the UK's oldest and
most threatened creatures. The influential tunes are rarely heard today because
they are sung by some of Britain's rarest birds and animals…
Source:
The Guardian
Clooney
Film Cut by Gulf Censors
18/04/2006
George
Clooney's oil drama Syriana has premiered in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with
two minutes of film removed at the request of government censors…
Source:
BBC News
Film
Festival Introduces Americans to "Real" Arabs
15/04/2006
Seeking
to counter the stereotyped portrayal of Arabs by Hollywood, directors from
different Arab countries are featuring their films in the US to show Americans
what the Arab world is all about…
Source:
Islam Online
Poet
of Blue Danube
18/04/2006
Life
and politics continue to charge the inspiration batteries of Essam Alameldin to
give voice to the emotions and concerns of Muslim and Arab minorities in Austria
through communicative poetry, colored with a special sense of humor…
Source:
Islam Online
First
Festival of Oases to Enrich Cultural Exchange
16/04/2006
After
3 years of gestation, the first International Festival of Oases started Saturday
in Figuig, south east Morocco. Groups from Saudi Arabia made the long journey to
enrich the event by their participation.
Source:
Morocco Times
A
First-Hand, Arab, Muslim Take on Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda
16/04/2006
"If
you want to be a good journalist, a good writer, then you have to be
courageous," says Abdel Bari Atwan, the Palestinian-born author of the
controversial new book, "The Secret History of Al-Qa'ida."…
Source:
The Daily Star
More
Kicks Than you Might Think
13/04/2006
With
celebrations in full cry for Samuel Beckett's centenary, Michael Hall offers
beginners some ways in to what can seem obscure and bleak territory…
Source:
The Guardian
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