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Along with the late Columbia University professor Edward Said, Barenboim founded the West-Eastern Divan Workshop, an orchestra for music students in Middle Eastern nations aimed-at bringing young people together “to make music on neutral ground,” according to Barenboim’s personal website...
...hope to bring Eastern culture into the Western home...we think it’s going to benefit both worlds,” Mohammad said...
...pictures in your special report on the tsunami said it all. What a colossal tragedy! The eastern coastline of India, long admired for its scenic beauty, is now feared for the ocean's potential fury. We are reminded of what Hindus call Pralaya?an overwhelming destruction and natural catastrophe. The only consolation, if you can call it that, is that another tsunami of similar magnitude is unlikely to occur in our lifetime. Kizhanatham R. Srivarahan Madras, India...
...World War II. The destruction caused by the tsunami requires a similar degree of extended help. We all hope that the U.S. can rediscover its postwar glory. Mohinder Kumar Jain New Delhi The pictures in your special report on the tsunami said it all. What a colossal tragedy! The eastern coastline of India, long admired for its scenic beauty, is now feared for the ocean's potential fury. We are reminded of what Hindus call Pralaya-an overwhelming destruction and natural catastrophe. The only consolation, if you can call it that, is that another tsunami of similar magnitude is unlikely...
...ivory, these were made for Sultan Murad III's pavilion in the harem area of the Topkapi Palace. A synthesis of art and architecture dates to the Timurid-Turkmen period (1370-1506). Timur, known in the West as Tamerlane, came from Samarkand, Uzbekistan, and went on to conquer near Eastern and Central Asian areas. The earliest known architectural scroll from the period "reflects the application of geometry in the Islamic tradition," according to "Turks" catalog editor David J. Roxburgh, a Harvard professor of history of art and architecture. The Ottomans took over in 1299, conquering neighbors, absorbing artistic styles...