March 2011
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Hindu Holi Festival of Colors Are Energy, Joy, and...
by Shubha Bala, associate producer
An explosion of color results as participants of a Holi festival in Utah throw colored chalk into the air and at each other. (photo: Jeremy Nicoll)
There’s no shortage of photos from Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, which takes place this year on Sunday, March 20th. Around the world, people celebrate the holiday by “throwing colors” at...
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WatchThe Golden Tones of Hélène Grimaud’s Existence
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
The French pianist Hélène Grimaud describes herself as an agitated and unpredictable child who found her salvation in music. And, now, as an adult, it’s wolf conservation and their howling as “one of the most beautiful sounds in nature.”
This interview with Alexis Bloom for Sound Tracks is...
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Architecture Students Design the Future of Israel
by Janine Rayford, USC “Reporting on Israel” Journalism Student
When Hagar Admi thinks about the political future of Israel, she thinks in terms of blue prints. Admi, an architecture student at the Neri Bloomfield School of Design and Education in Haifa, contests that art, specifically architecture, is inherently political.
“It’s all about society in architecture, as you plan for...
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“It is like being totally paralyzed. The most important thing is stability,...”
– —Fatmeh, an Arab Palestinian resident of Barta’a, Israel.
Fatmeh, who was born in the West Bank, and her husband Yousef, an Arab born in Israel, are unable to visit her family who live minutes away on the other side of the separation wall, reports USC’s Christin Davis. They married before...
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Arabs Lead Peaceful Demonstration in Nazareth
by Sharis Delgadillo, USC “Reporting on Israel” Journalism Student
A small group of Palestinian-Israeli demonstrators gathered Tuesday evening in Nazareth to call for the reunification of the divided Palestinian parties of Hamas and Fatah.
“We are demonstrating here to push on both parties. They must sit and reunite and confront the Israelis in politics. I’m not talking about...
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The Girl Who Cried at the Stations of the Cross
by Kate Moos, executive producer
(photo: Chris Heagle)
I came to Jerusalem as a journalist, not a pilgrim, and so I was completely surprised today, when, in the cacophony and kitschy merchandising of the Old City’s Via Dolorosa (“The Way of Sorrows”), my eye landed on a sign marking the second station on Jesus’ march to Calvary (“Jesus falls for the first time”) and felt a sob...
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“The candles of the city shine to tell the world what we want,
The candles of...”
– —Hamza Sisi, from his lyrics to the rap song “Shamat Al-Medina” (or “Candles of the City”), which was translated from Arabic into English:
“Two young Libyans whose rap music is being broadcast to the front line by rebel Benghazi radio hope they are helping to maintain the morale of fighters...
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“I don’t love to speak about politics, but we live here. We eat and breathe...”
– —Dr. Sharif Sharif, archaeologist in Nazareth, Israel
(via reporting-on-israel)
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A Palestinian Nest with No Babies
by Diane Winston, Knight Chair in Media and Religion at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
Riadh Abu Eid checks his mobile phone while standing on the rubble of his demolished home in Lod, Israel. (photo: Robyn Carolyn Price)
A hummingbird’s nest sits in a high branch of the ficus tree on my porch in Los Angeles. Knitting together twigs, leaves, and small scraps, a mama...
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Hebrew University's Einstein Archives to Go Online →
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
This headline from The Jerusalem Post is an absolutely delightful surprise. As someone who has worked with the Einstein Archives to procure rights to images of the great physicist’s papers for “Einstein and the Mind of God,” I’ve often wondered why all of his papers hadn’t been digitized yet.
To see Einstein’s marginalia and his...
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