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...season, but were treated to an unwelcome drama, as half a dozen marquee events were canceled - including the legendary Avignon festival, shut down for the first time in its 57-year history. On Thursday, Avignon director Bernard Faivre d'Arcier somberly announced his program had fallen victim to unruly protests by striking performing-arts workers - strikes that torpedoed music festivals in Aix-en-Provence and La Rochelle earlier in the week. Many more events in France's annual calendar of 650 arts fests are also expected to fold, depriving hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers of their summer culture...
CAIRO, Egypt—Cairo has not met my wildest imaginations. My “Erol of Arabia” dreams of racing across the desert on a black Arabian horse, scimitar in hand, screaming, wearing a kafiyya, then arriving in Cairo, making a cameo at a local protest, with bullhorn in my other hand, burning a few flags and finally sheesha-smoking the night away has not been realized. Instead, I unglamorously touched down in an airplane, took a cab to my bare hostel room and have spent most nights studying Arabic. I have not been on a horse...
...Last week's march in Hong Kong, galvanized in part by Wong Yuk-man's radio entreaties, never had the pretension of actually overthrowing a ruling government. In many ways, the protest was a ritualistic expression of futility, participants wearing black shirts that symbolized the funerary nature of their march. But somewhere along the way, the expected 100,000 protesters snowballed to at least five times that. Suddenly, the protest grew a vitality of its own that sparked a deep democratic longing that most Hong Kongers didn't even realize they held. Wong, the territory's Great Communicator, may have...
...just one small man in a large crowd of half a million. But as the black-clad protesters streamed into Hong Kong's Victoria Park last week, they would stop for a moment to stare at the slight, unprepossessing individual. Only when he lifted a megaphone, broadcasting a familiar voice whose Gatling-gun delivery epitomizes the staccato clatter of the Cantonese dialect, were they sure. For this was Wong Yuk-man, the phenomenally popular talk-radio host who had used his bully pulpit to incite one of the world's most politically docile populaces into marching for its future...
...getting their licenses revoked and are often forced to adjust their programs accordingly. This time, though, the public came to radio's rescue. Within hours, thousands of irate listeners had signed a petition demanding their show back. Parliament was lobbied, and scores of taxi drivers, their cabs draped with protest banners, joined a solidarity rally in front of the radio show's offices. Two days later, the military backed down and the station was back on the air. "We were delighted with the support," says Somchai Swangkarn, managing director of the INN Group. "It's the first time in Thai...