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Friday, July 16, 2010

Band practice for refugees: Young palestinians gain self-esteem – and find a welcome precision – in a camp-based bagpipe band in southern Lebanon.

"There are bad things in the media outside," Mr. Aljoma says. "Sometimes, they think you are Palestinian, you are living in the camps, you are a terrorist. They think like this, and this is not true."A henna-decorated performer from Guirab illustrates a cultural contrast that has produced harmony: Palestinians, thought to have played a version of the bagpipe much earlier, were reintroduced to it under British rule between 1920 and 1948. Newscom/File

Band practice for refugees

Young palestinians gain self-esteem – and find a welcome precision – in a camp-based bagpipe band in southern Lebanon.

http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Music/2010/0715/Band-practice-for-refugees

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