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        <description><![CDATA[this blog is about the experiences of Lukas Pairon working with the organisation MUSIC FUND on projects with music schools in the Middle East (Israel and Palestine) and Africa (Mozambique and Congo)]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[music instrument collecting in Madrid]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:21:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[more then 400 music instruments where collected in the weekend of 19-20 December 2009 in Madrid by La Casa Encendida (Caia Madrid) and Musica d'Hoy ! ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[video-clip on Music Fund in Kinshasa]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:37:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[see this video-clip on my latest 'mission' a week ago for Music Fund, together with luthier Jacky Walraet, to Kinshasa (DRC): (the video-compilation is made by Jacky Walraet, a luthier (guitars and string-instruments) with many other talents as well!... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Music Fund / interviews musicians in Kinshasa]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:06:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Here you can see musicians from Kinshasa whom we interviewed there last week, asking them what they think of the guitars made in Kinshasa, which Music Fund is now selling on line: ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[guitars from Kinshasa being played by musicians]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:37:08 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Last night, 26th June, Ottignies, festival Nuit Africaine: jazzmusician Philip Catherine, as well as musicians Daniel Hélin, Bai Kamara and Fred Lani, performed on guitars made in Kinshasa. in the hands of these fine musicians, the guitars from Kinshasa... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[handmade Congolese guitars for sale]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:58:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[GOOD NEWS FOR MUSIC AFICIONADO’S ! Music Fund is a Belgian organisation that supports young musicians and music academies in developing countries and conflict areas. As of June 12th, we are offering you the opportunity to order one of our popular handmade... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Music Fund cannot get into Gaza]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I just got the bad news that we do not get entry permits to go work in Gaza with our team of music instrument techniques of Music Fund (www.musicfund.be). Our 'plan B' is to now go work for our partnerschools in Jenin and Nablus. I cannot tell you how... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Music Fund sells guitars from Kinshasa - trade not aid]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:32:32 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Here you can see Belgian artists playing the guitars from Kinshasa (Congo) workshops which Music Fund is selling on its website from 5th June on: Music Fund is selling these guitars in order to allow the guitar ateliers to develop and expecting that their... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Music Fund in Madrid !]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The Casa da Madrid and La Casa Encendida are preparing together with the concert organisor Musica d'Hoy a big collecting campaign for Music Fund which will take place in Madrid during the week of 14th December 2009. We expect this collecting campaign... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[&quot;3rdPARTY&quot; is starting in September]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:19:01 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I am really happy to hear that thanks to financial support from the Province of Antwerp, the private project "3rdPARTY" (a 3-year project around Palestinian and Israeli peace-activists) can be started in Antwerp from this Autumn on. It is a private initiative... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[an article in El Pais]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[today an article was published in El Pais (click to read the article) on the projects of Music Fund in the Middle East and Africa. and the journalist of this article, Jesus Ruiz Mantilla, is spending 4 days with me in Israel and Palestine in the beginning... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[&quot;3rdPARTY&quot;, a project for Antwerp]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:53:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA["3rdPARTY" is a private initiative (not yet an organisation) which wants to create bridges between the population of Antwerp and non-violent peace activists working and living in Israel and Palestine, via public meetings in Antwerp and youth trips to... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[end of attack on Gaza]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On this trailer of the documentary film "The Exchange" (on the projects of Ictus and Music Fund in the Middle East) you can hear Mrs Reem Abu Jaber, the director of the Gaza Qattan Centre for the Child (her picture), speak about the partnership between... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[video-clip on Music Fund in Kinshasa]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:24:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Here you can find a 10 minute compilation of our 'mission' to Kinshasa, made by guitar-maker Jacky Walraet, who was together with Karel Dedain sent by Music Fund to teach repair-techniques at the Institut National des Arts of Kinshasa from 27th December... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[article &quot;A Third Party for the Middle East&quot;]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:44:52 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[In August 2006 in the middle of the Lebanon war, I wrote the article "A Third Party for the Middle East" (click here to read it). It has not lost much of its actuality, nor do I think very different about it all. These thoughts still inspire a lot of... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Gaza (Palestine) comes to Antwerp (Belgium)]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:41:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[My friend Karin Heremans called upon me yesterday. She is the director of the Atheneum, the largest secondary school of Antwerpen, Belgium. Last year, Karen Heremans, Mohammed Filali, Aharon Malinsky and myself went together to Israel where I organised... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[last day in Kinshasa]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Today is our last day in Kinshasa. These missions of 10 days are long and short at the same time. They seem long, as we are doing so much in such a short time. It feels as if we have been here several weeks in terms of what we have been able to work on.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[in the meantime in Gaza]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:14:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[While working in Kinshasa, the bad news from Gaza comes to us. I stayed the last week in contact with our friends and partner there. Yesterday, I found out that the new music school, which our partner, A.M. Al-Qattan Foundation, has founded only last... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[difficult, but not impossible]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:56:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Everything seems difficult here in Kinshasa, because people are so terribly poor. This is our greatest challenge here: We are doing our best to make sure that the project of Music Fund in Kinshasa can end up creating jobs and wealth. This is not easy... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Music Fund is in Kinshasa again !]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:09:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Please go for pictures about our 'mission' to Kinshasa to the blog of the luthiers Jacky Walraet and Karel Dedain - for their blog, click here - both guitar-makers and teaching at the Flemish Lutherie School of Puurs (CMB - www.cmbpuurs.be). This work-period... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[a day in Israel]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:16:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Sunday, 9th November 2008. Today is a day off for everyone. I am on my own, finishing some work on my computer and then off for a few meetings with friends. Unfortunately, my friend Itshak Frankenthal had to cancel our meeting... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[continuing collaboration with Al Kamandjati, Ramallah]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:49:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Our partner in Ramallah, the music school of Al Kamandjati, which was only founded three years ago, has developed rapidly with projects in Ramallah, Jenin a.o. cities of the Westbank. Ramzi Abu-Radwan, the school's artistic director, is very succesful... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A.M. Al-Qattan Foundation &amp; Music Fund in Gaza]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:46:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Ramallah, Saturday 8th November 2009. Meeting Ziad Khalaf, the head of the Ramallah office of the A.M. Al-Qattan Foundation, we evaluated our failure to enter Gaza this last week, and agreed upon a number of new initiatives which Music Fund will be developing... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[repairing music instruments in Nablus]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:58:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[© string-instrument 'doctor' Baptiste Argouarc'h, oud-maker Ali Hassanen and student piano-tuning Sameh Assad in repair-workshop Nablus the Culture © a guitar in need of first aid at the music school of Nablus the Culture ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Jerusalem - meetings]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:19:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Jerusalem, Thursday 6th November 2008. While Pol De Winter (pianos) started a 3 day work-period in Ramallah, working on pianos of our partner-school Al Kamandjati and Baptiste Argouarc'h (string instruments) and Christian Bertram (guitars) continued to... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[views of Nablus city]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:21:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[© Olivier Marie, myself and Pol De Winter visiting the old city of Nablus © a view of the garden of the instrument repair-workshop in Nablus © at the home of oud-maker Ali Hasanen © also at Ali's home, after eating a delicious Palestinian dish called... ]]></description>
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