ISRAEL: Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad attends opening of an arts centre in Arab Israeli village

Record ID: 396655

  • Title: ISRAEL: Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad attends opening of an arts centre in Arab Israeli village
  • Date: 13th June 2010
  • Summary: KUFR YASEEF, ISRAEL (JUNE 12, 2010) (REUTERS) PALESTINIAN PRIME MINISTER SALAM FAYYAD GETTING OUT OF VEHICLE, SHAKING HANDS WITH OFFICIALS OFFICIALS GREETING FAYYAD FAYYAD STANDING UNDER SIGN WITH PICTURE OF LATE PALESTINIAN POET MAHMOUD DARWISH CLOSE OF FAYYAD FAYYAD AND WOMAN CUTTING RED RIBBON FAYYAD LISTENING TO EXPLANATION ON ARTS CENTRE FAYYAD SHAKING HANDS WI
  • Embargoed: 28th June 2010 13:00
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  • Location: Israel
  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: International Relations,Arts / Culture / Entertainment / Showbiz
  • Reuters ID: LVA7P8NTB5A0V4QKXGQVXEL7X6UC
  • Story Text: Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad attended on Saturday (June 12) the opening of an arts centre located inside the state of Israel.
    As a resident of Jerusalem, Fayyad has freedom of movement in Israel and did not need a permit from Israeli authorities to attend the event.
    The arts centre in the northern Arab village of Kufr Yaseef was named after late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, who died in the U.S. in 2008 after a surgery.
    Darwish's award-winning poetry, translated into more than 20 languages, captured the hearts of many Palestinians and Arabs echoing their sense of exile and loss of homeland.
    Born in territory that is now in Israel, Darwish was jailed several times by the Israelis for his political activities. He left in 1971 for the Soviet Union before living in exile in Cairo, Beirut, Tunis and Paris. He returned to Ramallah in the 1990s.
    While abroad he rose to prominence in the PLO, but resigned in 1993 in protest over the Oslo accords that Arafat signed with Israel.
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