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in the meantime in Gaza

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...

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26 décembre 2006

SCHEDULE workperiod 25.12 -> 7.1 in Israel & Palestine

Yesterday, 25th December, cellist François Deppe (Ictus) and his wife, harpsicord-player Kimiko Nishi, already travelled from Brussels to Tel Aviv to start teaching students there at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music (Tel Aviv University). Today, I am...

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7 décembre 2006

amateur videoclip of Queen of Belgium visiting Music Fund

On 7th December 2006, Queen Paola of Belgium honored us with a visit. She came to the piano-workshop of Pol De Winter in Antwerp (Pianomobil), where she met with the equipe of Music Fund, members of our board, and especially with students from Ramallah...

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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 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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1 janvier 2007

Tel Aviv - Brussels - Tel Aviv

I spent about 10 hours in airplanes on this first day of the new year, flying this morning from Tel Aviv to Brussels to bring back my daughter Mathilde, and then at noon back from Brussels to Tel Aviv together with piano-expert Pol De Winter and his daughter...

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7 juin 2009

Music Fund cannot get into Gaza

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...

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4 janvier 2007

from Ashdod with the instruments to Nablus

You can find a documentary in 53 pictures of our 4th January in Israel and the Westbank by going to this webpage (click). Today Thursday was another long and demanding day at the harbour of Ashdod, where we were kept waiting for more paperwork and checks...

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3 janvier 2007

a day in between

Today was a day in between, a day of waiting and negociating. What counts is what comes out of it: tomorrow morning, Music Fund will finally get its music instruments released from the harbour of Ashdod. We are now on to a 3rd scenario of delivery, since...

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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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17 décembre 2006

delivery music instruments in Gaza, Nablus and Ramallah: alternative scenarios needed?

I follow the situation in Gaza and the Westbank more closely than ever via the media and I wonder whether we will succeed to get through with our music instruments this time. If ever things get worse in the territories and we would at the last minute...

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19 janvier 2009

end of attack on Gaza

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...

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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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3 mai 2006

in Nablus with the musicians

This day is a very difficult one, but as all such days they lead to others of a different nature. I am curious what the outcome of this one will be. I left Ramallah in the early morning together with the filmcrew of Alizé. After a crasy drive by taxi...

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18 octobre 2008

fetching pianos in Innsbruck

Profiting from a concert of Ictus in Milano (Italy) I took the Ictus truck via Innsbruck (Austria) where - together with Jesse De Belder, a volontary worker in charge of our instruments - we loaded 3 more pianos and other instruments which the festival...

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7 novembre 2008

repairing music instruments in Nablus

© 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

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7 novembre 2006

Iyad, Els & her granddaughter

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7 novembre 2006

Palestine and Mozambique

good friends

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7 novembre 2006

Iyad's host in Antwerp: Els De Winter

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7 novembre 2006

Anselmo & Iyad

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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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5 novembre 2008

views of Nablus city

© 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...

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21 décembre 2009

music instrument collecting in Madrid

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 !

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