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...Barenboim started the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, a youth ensemble that draws together Israeli and Arab musicians, many from disputed territories. Its first concert that year was in Weimar, Germany, in the shadow of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Concerts followed each summer across Europe and North America until 2004, when Barenboim made history by taking the orchestra to Ramallah, in the West Bank, where the musicians played under armed guard...
...essential to the Divan orchestra and to Barenboim himself. Music is at its most satisfying when an expression meets its counterpoint. Barenboim says the 2003 death from cancer of Palestinian intellectual Edward Said--Barenboim's friend and co-leader of the orchestra--was "catastrophic" for an orchestra based on Arab-Israeli parity. In January of this year, Barenboim made a symbolic gesture: he accepted Palestinian citizenship and became a dual national...
...other Austin high-tech companies. In so many ways, the group was a mirror of Austin - a multicultural mix of whites, Asians, African Americans and Hispanics, immigrant and native-born, young men and middle-aged single women, a guy with a ponytail, a woman with a Caribbean accent, an Arab-American precinct chairman, a graphic designer, a teacher-cum-soccer mom, an entrepreneur, a real estate company owner. All of them were participating in their first county convention and, though tired after an almost 12-hour caucus, all went away in awe of the messy deliberative process...
...That was the year he won the commission for the Institute of the Arab World in Paris, one of the Grand Projects decreed throughout the city by Francois Mitterand. Its most ingenious feature was a sunscreen created by thousands of steel-frame iris mechanisms. Arranged in Islamic tile patterns, they widen and contract in response to the sun. Architects talk sometimes about buildings having a skin. This one had pores. They didn't always operate, but they announced to the world an intricate mind...
...series of mass protests that forced Syria to disengage from its tiny neighbor two months later. Since then, however, Lebanon has been mired in deep political crisis, in which the Western-backed government and its supporters are at loggerheads with a pro-Syrian opposition. The United States and its Arab allies, including regional giants Saudi Arabia and Egypt, blame Syria for the deadlock in Lebanon, which has left the country without a president since November. In a snub to Damascus, half the 22 heads of state invited to attend the Arab League summit sent low-ranking delegations instead...