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Excerpt: At the heart of this program, was a roundtable discussion held by the academics along with artists, Salim & Sulaiman of Bollywood as well as Ali Ramzi and Hamin Honari of Qalandar. The roundtable sought to facilitate a dialogue that offered the audience new modes of thinking and articulating narratives of inclusivity in the wider community. There exists a variety of diverse ways in which individuals use music and these artists spoke about their experience regarding music making and the impact it has in popular culture. The artists also raised important points about the responsibility of representation and the complexity of labeling music within specific confines. This discussion demonstrated that identity and music share characteristics of fluidity- we are whom we are in intimate connection with those amongst and against whom we continually redefine ourselves.
Expecting a speech, he surprised me by starting to sing. I was deeply amazed and engrossed in his deep, strong voice and to my surprise, the lyrics sounded familiar.
Dhikr Tasbih – Khursheed Nurali
Salim Merchant (SM): (Smiles) Yes, we raised a lot of money in Calgary and Houston amongst other places. In fact in Atlanta, we even donated to the NGOs like Raksha and Vibha who support women and children. We did this because we genuinely believe in giving back to the society. Apart from this we also did a lot of workshops for upcoming musicians and singers in the United States and Canada which was personally quite satisfying as we shared our personal experiences with them especially encouraging them to follow our roots and our own musical traditions despite living in the US, which will make them truly unique since they will have a great mix of Western and Indian music.
Title: Guzinam Quran-ast
Afshan Khan hails from Sheresubz Chipurson. She secured second position in all Pakistan Na’at competition organized by Radio Pakistan, held in Islamabad. She was first in provisional level Na’at competition and was representing Gilgit-Baltistan.
The subway tunnels are havens for restive artists and designers. The West Bank wall separating Palestinian territory from Israel, like the Berlin Wall before it, has become a public canvas on which frustrated people express pain and longing through word and image. In LOVE WINS: Palestinian Perseverance Behind Walls (Olive Branch Press, paper, $22), this work is brought into focus through the images of Afzal Huda, a Canadian photographer and filmmaker, who spent three weeks during the summer of 2011 shooting pictures along the wall and interviewing those who live in its shadow. The title is taken from a slogan carefully painted on one piece of the imposing concrete. Over half of the book consists of photos of Palestinians and a few Israeli soldiers going about their daily routines; the rest show dozens of loosely scrawled and ambitiously painted messages that zero in on the theme of hope.
Two poems: “Museum” and “courtyard, unedited”
