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Music: Ensemble Ambitions in a World Divided

In Arts, Humanitarian, Jordan, Media, Middle East Politics, Palestine/Israel on June 21, 2009 at 11:43 pm

Despite the cohesion implied by the word “ensemble,” these four men are rarely in the same city, much less the same room. The politics of the Middle East confine them to four separate spheres and have turned them into a living metaphor for inescapable division

“It’s our story,” said Suhail Khoury, who plays the traditional flute, or ney, and clarinet in the group. “It’s like summing up Palestine.”

Read this feature in the New York Times