Special Topic on Daniel Barenboim Saga.

Submitted by Svet (United States), Apr 4, 2009 at 01:54

Pay attention to the sequence:

http://www.danielbarenboim.com/news2009.htm

REBUILDING THE GAZA MUSIC SCHOOL
March 2009

"...A donation of 50,000€ was recently made in the names of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Mariam Said, and Daniel Barenboim towards the rebuilding and reopening of the Gaza Music School. The school had opened on October 5th, 2008, and destroyed during the Israeli bombardment in January 2009. For further information on the Gaza Music School, visit (www.qattanfoundation.org/en)"...

Then:

http://www.qattanfoundation.org/subpage/en/index.asp?sectionID=107

Chairman's Introduction: "...After the Nakba, when we lost everything, the Palestinians were left with one choice: to rise up again, armed with the tools of education and knowledge. The years that followed the Nakba witnessed, and continue to witness, numerous moral and material defeats for the Arab world. "...Abdel Mohsin al-Qattan

Then:

"...21 May 2009- Seven Jewish Children by Caryl Churchill and The Trainer by David Wilson and Anne Aylo will be performed at the Hackney Empire, London in support of the Gaza Music School Project and Stop the War Coalition. "....

Then:

What is the Stop de Coalition Movement?

http://stopwar.org.uk/content/blogsection/8/28/

STEERING COMMITTEE AND OFFICERS….In addition to the organisations indicated above, the following are represented on the Steering Committee:
British Muslim Initiative…Communist Party of Britain…Muslim Association of Britain…Palestine Solidarity Campaign, PCS union"…

Contact for the "Great" Qattan,

Palestine
PO Box 2276
Ramallah - Palestine

AND FINALLY,

From the Institute for Palestinian Studies,

http://www.qattanfoundation.org/pdf/1953_86.pdf

A Music School Silenced in Gaza, By Nadia Hijab(8 January 2009 by Agence Global.)

"...There was a music school in Gaza. It was just six months old....The school worked out of rented premises in the Palestinian Red Crescent Society....The compound was targeted in the first wave of Israeli bombardments...By some miracle, the children had not yet arrived for their lessons and so were spared the fate of those in other schools in the path of Israeli bombs...And what about Hamas' supposed social rigidity? Some websites did take a strong line against musical education, complaining that Hamas was allowing music to be taught under its rule instead of the Sharia....(Palestinians) have had 60 years to learn how to do so, and show no signs of giving up their quest for their rights -- not even the right to learn how to play a musical instrument."...

Published by Agence Global and distributed by the Institute for Palestine Studies The Institute has produced authoritative studies on Palestinian affairs and the Arab-Israeli conflict since 1963. Its flagship Journal of Palestine Studies is published by the University of California Press.

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