The works of 25 modern Arab composers are to be performed in major European concert halls for the first time, with London hosting a preview in June, organizers said on Wednesday. After London, the programme will go to festivals in European capitals, including Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen and Amsterdam, and then, from 2009, to the respective…
Writers Andrea Camilleri and Hanif Kureishi, filmmaker Marco Bellocchio, journalist Eugenio Scalfari, Oscar-winning musician Nicola Piovani and architect Peter Eisenmann will be among those attending Borders at Rome’s second Philosophy Festival this month. The festival will tackle such issues as West versus East, Faith versus Reason, contemporary threats to Enlightenment thinking, Freedom from dogma, and…
Dutch ex-Muslim youth have united under a new organization in Amsterdam, the Central Committee for Ex-Muslims, according reports on Wednesday. Ehsan Jami, one of the founders of the committee and a city council member for the PvdA Labour Party in Leidschendam-Voorburg, a small city near The Hague, said the committee aimed to help other so-called…
The former spokesman of the Mosque in Geneva, Hafid Ouardiri, is considering launching an initiative to help Muslims integrate themselves into Swiss society. He shared this idea in an interview on Wednesday in the weekly publication “GHI.” “We hope to utitilize the tools of citizenship to participate in public debate,” he emphasized in a column…
