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Musical Missions: Iraqi Refugees in USA
Sent August 7th 2008While we were in Syria and Jordan a family of recently arrived Iraqi women stayed in our house in Boulder and our ongoing connections with them leads to an ever-widening network of Iraqi people. An Iraqi woman, a friend of theirs, has been studying in Ca...
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Musical Missions of Peace: Ready for Action
Sent June 8th 2008Amman, Jordan Our travels through Syria and Jordan on behalf of Musical Missions of Peace have been a success in both countries. Musical Missions of Peace is now poised to do the work of directly supporting the people and ancient culture of Iraq. We ha...
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Cameron and Kristina: Iraqi Musicians
Sent June 6th 2008Amman, Jordan Asking here and there in our endless searches for live music performances we climb up to the fourth floor open terrace of a restaurant here in Amman. The manager tells us that the regularly employed Jordanian oud player is not there this we...
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Musical Missions: Kristina on Syria
Sent June 5th 2008When you hear the word "Syria" what thoughts and feelings come to mind? Are they warm and fuzzy thoughts, or thoughts with a bit of fear? If there is some fear in those thoughts where did it come from? Who put it there? Ahmad the hotel owner in Aleppo...
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Cameron and Kristina Now Back in Jordan
Sent June 4th 2008Riding back South across the border into Jordan we arrive in Amman. Our driver jokes every time we pass a picture of the blue-eyed Jordanian King Abdulla that he must be the "King of Denmark." In reality, the king's mother is American. To the north in Sy...
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Cameron and Kristina: Syria Part Two
Sent June 1st 2008Driving down to the Mediterranean coast to Lattakia on the following day we were greeted by our friend Mohammad who is a generous young Sunni Muslim man living in the primarily Allawite part of Syria who takes pride in networking people and their projects...
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Cameron and Kristina: Syria Part One
Sent May 30th 2008Arriving in Damascus two weeks ago, we were in time to see the last two evening performances of "Women in Arabic Music" headlined at the Azem Palace in the old city. We had already missed the Iraqi and Syrian evenings but were able to attend the Egyptian ...
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Musical Missions: Update From Syria
Sent May 28th 2008May 27, Damascus, Syria After traveling through the Southern, Western, Northern and Central parts of Syria it has become clear that all roads lead to Damascus. It is here that with the help of our new Project Director for Syria, Fadhil M Saleh, we have pu...
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Cameron and Kristina: Update from Syria
Sent May 21st 2008May 21, Lattakia, Syria An Iraqi refugee whom we have met on the Mediterranean coast here in Syria has offered to meet us back in Damascus later in the week to help carry our project to the attention of the Damascus-based Institute for the Study of High M...
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Iraqi Refugee Musicians Agree To Work With Us In Jordan
Sent May 15th 2008Today we met with Iraqi refugee musicians here in Amman, Jordan who can work with us to begin teaching younger Iraqis the precious old lyrical maqam music and help preserve a deep and vital aspect of currently endangered Iraqi culture. What is the precio...
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