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• Embroidered visions of a peaceful Palestine – in pictures

  15-01-2022 18:00
  
  Jordan Nassar was born and raised in New York by his Palestinian-American father and Polish-American mother. “The fight for Palestinian equality is very important in my family,” he says. “My father, a psychiatrist, spent his life helping people there.” Nassar was a crafty child, into origami and kirigami, and then he progressed to embroidery. “It’s the most recognisable element of Palestinian culture, something I had grown up around in our house and almost all
  
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• ‘We saw this tree filled with goats’: Stephen Tayo’s best phone picture

  15-01-2022 11:00
  
  The Nigerian photographer on an unusual encounter on the roadside in MoroccoAs a professional photographer, Stephen Tayo’s usual reason to travel is for work. Since visiting Marrakech solo in 2019, however, he had been raving to friends about how much they all needed to go. Bored after a year under Covid restrictions, he eventually rallied five friends from his home town of Lagos, Nigeria, to join him on a mini road trip. The group began in Tayo’s beloved Marrakech, then decided to h
  
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• Profusely Illustrated review: Edward Sorel and all the golden ages of New York magazines

  15-01-2022 08:00
  
  A memoir by a man who has drawn caricatures for the greatest editors is a treasure trove of the American mid-century modernAt 92, Edward Sorel is the grand old man of New York magazines. For 60 years, his blistering caricatures have lit up the pages of Harper’s, the Atlantic, Esquire, Time, Rolling Stone and the Nation. He is especially revered for his work in Clay Felker’s New York in the late 60s and for work in the New Yorker under Tina Brown and David Remnick.He has also worked f
  
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• From Scream to Dr Semmelweis: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  15-01-2022 07:00
  
  Whether it’s nostalgic screen terror or Mark Rylance’s stage return, our critics have your plans for the week coveredScream
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  New year, new Scream. Back after a gap of 11 years (if you don’t count the so-so TV show), this sequel/reboot combines a nostalgia fix – in the form of re-appearances from surviving original Scream characters – with modern anxieties such as: what if Ghostface hacked into the smart home apps linked to your mobile?Memoria
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• Inside Thomas Dausgaard’s Sudden Departure From The Seattle Symphony

  15-01-2022 00:01 via postalley.org
  
  Yes, music directors quit all the time, but virtually never in the middle of a season and, in the modern era, not effective immediately. – Post Alley
  
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