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Iyad, Els & her granddaughter

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7 novembre 2006

Iyad almost in Versailles

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7 novembre 2006

Anselmo, Fernando, Lukas, Iyad

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7 novembre 2006

lesson at Pianomobil

On top of their daily work as interns in the workshop of Pianomobil, learning how to repair and build pianos, every Monday and Thursday evening, Iyad and Anselmo also join lessons given at Pianomobil to a group of students learning to tune pianos. This...

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2 octobre 2006

pictures Festa da Paz

Here are some pictures taken at the Festa da Paz, a party organised in Brussels last Saturday by the Amigos de Mocambique at the occasion of the independence day of Mozambique: Joris Buysse of Papageno, speaking with Anselmo Chissaque Nathalie Buysse...

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1 octobre 2006

a weekend with Iyad

I have had the occasion to spend some time with both Anselmo from Maputo - who lives with me in Antwerp - and with Iyad from Ramallah, inviting both of them to my home in the Belgian Ardennes. We talked a lot about all kinds of things. I really like both...

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24 septembre 2006

Iyad 2 weeks in Antwerp

Els De Winter, the sister of Pol De Winter of Pianomobil and also host to the young Palestinian Iyad from Ramallah who is now for three months in Antwerp at the invitation of Music Fund to follow a training in how to repair and tune pianos. This is what...

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13 septembre 2006

pianist Saleem Abboud Ashkar on Music Fund & Ictus

Nazareth born pianist Saleem Abboud Ashkar has just sent me the following testimony on what we are developing since 2002 in his homeland. Saleem has been following our work since the beginning. "I think I can say that I met Lukas at the very beginning...

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13 septembre 2006

Els De Winter about Iyad discovering Antwerp

Here is what Els De Winter - hosting Iyad at her house in Antwerp - tells me about her first impressions with Iyad: "Iyad's stay with us is going really well. The fact that his knowledge of English is somewhat basic is at times frustrating for both of...

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12 septembre 2006

Iyad working on piano for Palestine

Second day of Iyad's training at Pianomobil in Antwerp. Iyad has two teachers: Pol De Winter, Pianomobil's owner, is teaching Eyad techniques of repairing pianos, and Aurèle Hardy is teaching him the tuning of pianos. His teachers tell me that Iyad is...

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11 septembre 2006

1st day at piano workshop Pianomobil

Today September 11th was the first day of the Music Fund 3-months training at the Antwerp based piano workshop Pianomobil of piano expert Pol De Winter and his team. Iyad Jeradat from Ramallah is the first to arrive for this training and next week Monday...

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10 septembre 2006

Iyad Jeradat arrives from Ramallah

Today our first student arrived for the 3-month training which Music Fund is proposing in workshops of music instrument experts in Belgium. It is Iyad Jeradat, a young man from Ramallah. Eyad has been selected for this training after following the initiation...

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11 août 2006

music instruments for Middle East

We cannot do much about the conflicts which are making the lives of our friends in Palestine and Israel impossible. We can only represent some minor resistance towards the fighting by continuing to work within our own field of music by helping and developing...

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10 août 2006

personal point of view in Belgian press

I want to share in this blog the following article which appeared today in the Belgian press (in French in Le Soir and in Flemish in De Standaard), expressing my personal feelings and thoughts towards the role we in Belgian and Europe could play towards...

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21 juin 2006

Haaretz on projects Ictus and Music Fund

this is what journalist Noam Ben Ze'ev wrote today in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz: "MUSIC ON WHEELS" By Noam Ben Ze'ev The Balata refugee camp near Nablus is not known for its cultural life. Yet, despite the poverty and ruin there - thousands of families...

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12 mai 2006

back in Belgium

It is only a few days that we have been back in Belgium, and we have already made a lot of progress in preparing our upcoming projects in Israel and Palestine. Immediately the day after arriving from Israel and Palestine, I went to Lille (F) and had a...

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8 mai 2006

meeting Daphna Golan

This morning we all met for a breakfast at the beautiful American Colony Hotel in East Jerusalem: the musicians, the luthiers, the filmcrew and myself. As a final moment of reflexion before leaving the region, I invited my friend Daphna Golan, Israeli...

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7 mai 2006

meeting the mayor of Ramallah

At noon I had a meeting with the new mayor of Ramallah, Mrs Janet Michael. She has been voted in as mayor of Ramallah since January thanks to the support of Hamas. She is not a member of Hamas though. She was leading an independent list and got 6 out...

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7 mai 2006

back in Ramallah with Aurèle and Gert

Today Sunday 7th May is the last day of our presence in Palestine and Israel. I travelled with François and the filmcrew from Nazareth to Ramallah to join the luthiers of Music Fund there, while the other musicians Jean-Luc Plouvier, Jean-Luc Fafchamps...

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6 mai 2006

musicians in Nazareth

I did not post anything on the blog yesterday, because I was too busy with other things. Arriving in Nazareth was as always as arriving home, my family being Duaibis and Maha Abboud Ashkar. Everything seems easy here compared to Nablus, although it surely...

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