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Umsiyat concert series at Mushrif Park kicks off with Lebanese artist Abeer Nehme

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January 20, 2016

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It’s said that music has the power to cross borders – but few artists have exerted quite as much energy exploring the ability of rhythm and melody to transcend time, place and faith as Abeer Nehme.

The Lebanese performer is one of those fluid talents best described as a polymath. A learned musicologist, devoted to the academic study of music’s roots, she is also an actor and TV presenter, who recently completed a four-year journey filming Ethnopholia Musiqa Al Chou’oub, a 40-episode musical documentary in which she criss-crossed the globe to explore the ethnic musical traditions of more than 10 countries.But first and foremost, Nehme is a performer, a gifted vocalist who draws on these experiences to present her own concerts.

She will take to the stage at Abu Dhabi’s Mushrif Park on Sunday to launch the Um

Grim numbers from Iraq: thousands of civilians suffer death, displacement, slavery

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January 20, 2016

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New York City, N.Y., (CNA/EWTN News).- A new United Nations report has tried to count the civilian toll of continuing conflict in Iraq, largely at the hands of Islamic State militants, and the numbers are "staggering."

“Even the obscene casualty figures fail to accurately reflect exactly how terribly civilians are suffering in Iraq,” Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said Jan. 19.

“The figures capture those who were killed or maimed by overt violence, but countless others have died from the lack of access to basic food, water or medical care.”

He said the report showed the sufferings of Iraqi civilians and “starkly illustrates what Iraqi refugees are attempting to escape when they flee to Europe and other regions.”

“This is the horror they face in their homelands.” Between January 2014 and October 2015, at least 18,802 civilians were killed in Iraq. About half of them died in Baghdad province. Another 36,000 were injured.

Aoun’s Bloc Says Geagea’s Move Aims to Unify ‘All Lebanese, Not Only Christians’

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January 20, 2016

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by naharnet desk

The Change and Reform parliamentary bloc stressed Tuesday that Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea's nomination of bloc chief MP Michel Aoun for the presidency is aimed at unifying “all Lebanese, not only Christians,” noting that agreements that “transcend political agreements” are possible in this regard.

“The Change and Reform bloc has lauded LF leader Samir Geagea's nomination of MP Michel Aoun,” bloc secretary MP Ibrahim Kanaan announced after Change and Reform's weekly meeting in Rabieh.

“This step is a glimpse of hope seeking to unify all Lebanese, not only Christians, with the aim of reaching a national solution that saves the republic,” he added. Kanaan noted that the election of a president must be based on “filling the vacuum through a broad Lebanese will.”

In Surprise Move, Bitter Political Rivals in Lebanon Announce Deal

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January 19, 2016

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By ANNE BARNARD

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Two of Lebanon’s most prominent Christian politicians — one a crucial political ally of Hezbollah, the other its longtime foe — struck a surprise agreement on Monday that could help end the standoff that has left the country without a president for nearly two years.

In the deal, Samir Geagea, the leader of the Lebanese Forces party, threw his support behind the presidential candidacy of his lifelong rival, Michel Aoun, whose Free Patriotic Movement is Hezbollah’s main Christian ally in Parliament.

It was a remarkable development even in the context of Lebanon’s constantly churning politics. The two men are bitter adversaries. Their militias fought bloody battles during Lebanon’s civil war a quarter-century ago, and they have been on opposite sides over the most radioactive issues in Lebanon: Israel and the war in Syria.