Ortiz alfau biography of michaels
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80 years on, Picasso’s anti-war Guernica still resonates amid Syrian war
JEDDAH: “The role of contemporary (art) is to act as a link between the past, our present and this imagining of our future,” says Muhannad Shono, contemporary art curator at the second Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah, which opened in January and runs through May.
Shono’s section of the biennale features 30 new commissions from local and international artists “giving shape to the theme,” which this year is “And All That is in Between” — drawn from a Qur’anic verse: “To Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and all that is in between” — guiding artists and audiences to reflect on the spaces that exist between known boundaries, whether physical, spiritual, or conceptual.
Set across multiple indoor galleries and integrated into outdoor spaces, the contemporary works are woven seamlessly into the Biennale’s landscape alongside ancient artifacts.
One striking example
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Other countries, including the United States and Great Britain, continued to recognize the Republican government but declined to intervene. Tens of thousands of anti-Nazi and anti-fascist sympathizers from those countries flowed into Spain to back the Republicans as part of what became known as the International Brigades.
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Ortiz, compelled to join the fight, recalled his dismay upon discovering his side’s meager supplies. ‘‘As the son of a Republican, I had to join because they would surely call me up, and I wanted to defend freedom and the legal Popular Front government,’’ he recalled eight decades later to the French news agency Agence France-Presse. ‘‘We would practice with brooms. . . . We didn’t have rifles or any war material.’’
He said he never fired a shot during three years of conflict and instead served as a ‘‘living phone,’’ delivering messages between the t
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List of first women lawyers and judges in North America
This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in North America (a separate list is devoted to the United States). It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are the first women in their country to achieve a certain distinction such as graduating from law school.
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Anguilla
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Antigua and Barbuda
[edit]Aruba (NLD)
[edit]Bahamas
[edit]Barbados
[edit]Belize
[edit]Bermuda (GBR)
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Bonaire (NLD)
[edit]British Virgin Islands (GBR)
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Canada
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Cayman Islands (GBR)
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