Word: andalucía
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...that it cost to bring the orchestra to Seville for three weeks, along with Barenboim and 10 music teachers from Berlin and Chicago - he directs Berlin's Deutsche Staatsoper and conducts the Chicago Symphony - comes from the Three Mediterranean Cultures Foundation, a joint project by the regional government of Andaluc?a and Morocco. It has now offered West-Eastern Divan a permanent home in Seville. Barenboim is considering the proposal because the cultures the foundation refers to - Muslim, Jewish and Christian - coexisted in Spain for seven centuries under Moorish rule. After Spain, the East-Western Divan performs in L?beck, Germany this...
...from Spanish fund raisers. Several thousand Saharawi children spend their summer holidays with Spanish families. Each year a "caravan" of trucks travels through Spain collecting goods for the Saharawi: in my village this year we were asked to give toothbrushes, toothpaste and other toiletries. In the southern region of Andaluc?a, Spaniards even held a mock referendum on Western Saharan independence, highlighting the United Nations' failure to keep this promise. The mock referendum infuriated the Moroccans, and brooding on this insult may have had a lot to do with their flag waving on Perejil. The canny Moroccans, of course, are aware...
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