Posted in Culture and Arts, Music, Syria, tagged Culture, Damascus, Dar Al-Assad for Culture and Arts, ECHO, Gaza, Higher institute of Music, Music, Symphony Orchestra, Syria, Syrian National Symphony Orchestra, Syrian Opera House on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I got the following via email, asking me to publish it here.. I gladly comply
Dear ECHO Members and Friends,
ECHO Musical Cultural Association in collaboration with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) invite you to support the children of Gaza by attending the following fundraising concert:
Concert: “Echo of Gaza’s Children [...]
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Posted in General Nonsense, State of the Republic, tagged Arab Identity, Che Guevara, Damascus, fahionista, fashion, Freedom Fighters, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Palestinian Scarf, resistance, scarf, Syria on December 9, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Picture taken from a magazine ad for a local radio station.
Today, you can hardly walk the streets of Damascus without passing by quite a few young men and women wearing Palestinian scarves, which at one point became a symbol of the resistance and the “Fida’ees”, a symbol of freedom fighters and an ever lingering dream [...]
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