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...Ghungroo is all about, and this diversity also shed some light on the traditions and current trends of the culture that tied the festival together. Ranging from dance and music to poetry and comedy, the acts spanned a broad spectrum of cultures and movements from the Indian subcontinent and diaspora, and made a lovely juxtaposition of the ancient and the modern. The skits that ran in between acts, while partly existing to allow time to set up equipment behind the curtain, served an important purpose in themselves by using humor to showcase the experience of being young and Indian-American...
...background of classical training in South Asian dance. Her piece, “Hindi Film Dance: A Bollywood Journey” is an example of the ten dance performances in the show, which cover a broad range of dances from South Asia (and the South Asian diaspora,) from the Punjabi Bhangra style, to Chutney-Soca, which reflects Indian immigration into the West Indies, to fusion between modern and traditional forms. This is the first year that Nepali dance is included under the Ghungroo umbrella, and producers are proud that the repertoire for the annual performance continues to broaden. In addition...
...comments by Sharansky, who is Israeli Minister of Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs, elicited standing ovations from some, but also drew strong opposition from others who criticized him about Israel’s continuing conflict with the Palestinians...
...surgery and her problems with menopause and cellulite. She once "married" a homosexual couple on her show, claiming no one else would. "I often make mistakes, and when I do, I tell my audience," she says. "They like my honesty." Cristina's mission, she says, is to bring the diaspora of Hispanics together. "In unity, there is strength." And dollars as well. --By Jeanne Dequine/Miami
...Strategic necessity and shifting political reality created a survivor's flexibility in Arafat's politics. Out in the wasteland of his exile in Tunisia, he saw the limits of military and diplomatic efforts based in the Palestinian refugee Diaspora - they could claim headlines, but ultimately do little to displace Israeli power in pursuit of the goal of Palestinian sovereignty. In 1988, for the first time, Arafat led his organization to advocate a two-state solution to the conflict, based on creating a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza rather than insisting on the implausible goal of ?liberating...