A cat looks on as a Palestinian fisherman pulls in a net on a beach in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestine September 23, 2019. Photo: Mohammed Salem/Reuters.
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Showing posts with label Middle East. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Middle East. Show all posts
Monday, September 23, 2019
Who’s Who
Friday, March 10, 2017
Layla
Monique Jaques is a photojournalist based in Istanbul, who spent the past four years in the Middle East. In her announced new 120 page book – due to be published in late 2017/early 2018 – “Gaza Girls: Growing Up in the Gaza Strip”, she highlights the challenges of daily life of girls in Gaza.
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Mannequins outside a shop near the main street of Gaza City. Photo: Monique Jaques.
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Yara and her friends prepare a dance number during a blackout. Fuel is scarce in Gaza and many families have only six to eight hours of electricity a day. Photo: Monique Jaques.
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Friday, December 9, 2016
The Utopia Experiment
Composer says school, which will take in 90 new talents from the region each year, is “attempt at creating peace through music”
Daniel Barenboim has called it an “experiment in utopia”, a project that marks the culmination of the leading musician and conductor’s life’s work in bringing together musicians from the Middle East. The Barenboim-Said Akademie, which opened on Thursday evening in Berlin, will offer 90 talented students from the Middle East the chance to study classical music under the maestro himself as well as a raft of other top musicians and composers. [Read more]. |
- Kate Connolly, Daniel Barenboim opens Berlin music academy for Middle East students, The Guardian, December 8, 2016
The Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin, Germany which will bring together music students from the Middle East. Photo: Barenboim-Said Akademie Berlin.
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