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WELCOME TO GLOBAL ARTS CENTRAL
GAC is a digest of contemporary and traditional arts and culture from around the globe, offering you a snap shot of what is taking place. GAC covers film, dance, music featuring the most exciting and breakthrough artists, actors and directors from all around the world from Palestine to Paraguay, from Almodovar to Assayas from Jacir to Jancsó, keeping you entertained as well as informed. This edition we’re featuring Palestine:
"Culture is the means that empowers us to give face to our people, write melodies to our narrative and to develop an identity that is deeply rooted in the Palestinian soil like an olive tree, yet whose branches reach out into the open skies."
- Mitri Raheb, Reverend
Suheir Hammad: The Palestinian Poet Born Black
The bold feminist and award-winning poet Suheir Hammad, who is also a political activist and active humanitarian, has made a colossal contribution to the literary world. Her poetry has been read everywhere from the streets of Brooklyn to Ivy League universities. Additionally, Hammad is the first Palestinian to be featured in Broadway.
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