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THE CULTURAL OLYMPIAD the World's Stage VVolumeolume 8 - NumberNumber 5 JJuneune – JulyJuly 22012012 ££44 | €€55 | UUS$6.5S$6.5 TTHISHIS ISSUEISSUE: TTHEHE CULTURALCULTURAL OLYMPIADOLYMPIAD ● TThehe wworld’sorld’s stagestage ● SShakespearehakespeare andand thethe MiddleMiddle EastEast ● UUnitingniting thethe artistartist andand thethe athleteathlete ● MMusicusic aass tthehe ffoodood ooff hharmony:armony: DanielDaniel BarenboimBarenboim andand thethe West-EasternWest-Eastern DivanDivan OrchestraOrchestra ● BBornorn ooff tthehe wwind:ind: tthehe AArabianrabian horsehorse andand equestrianismequestrianism ● LLee CCorbusier’sorbusier’s GymnasiumGymnasium ● TThehe LLondonondon AquaticsAquatics CCentreentre ● TThehe bburdenurden ofof history:history: AlgeriaAlgeria 5050 yearsyears onon ● PPLUSLUS RReviewseviews andand eventsevents inin LondonLondon VVolumeolume 8 - NNumberumber 5 JJuneune – JJulyuly 22012012 ££44 | €€55 | UUS$6.5S$6.5 TTHISHIS ISSUEISSUE: TTHEHE CULTURALCULTURAL OOLYMPIADLYMPIAD ● TThehe wworld’sorld’s sstagetage ● SShakespearehakespeare aandnd thethe MMiddleiddle EastEast ● UUnitingniting tthehe aartistrtist aandnd tthehe athleteathlete ● MMusicusic aass tthehe ffoodood ooff hharmony:armony: DDanielaniel BBarenboimarenboim aandnd tthehe West-EasternWest-Eastern DDivanivan OrchestraOrchestra ● BBornorn ooff tthehe wwind:ind: tthehe AArabianrabian hhorseorse aandnd eequestrianismquestrianism ● LLee CCorbusier’sorbusier’s GymnasiumGymnasium ● TThehe LLondonondon AAquaticsquatics CCentreentre ● TThehe bburdenurden ofof hhistory:istory: AAlgerialgeria 5500 yearsyears oonn ● PPLUSLUS RReviewseviews aandnd eeventsvents inin LLondonondon West End LIVE June 23- 24, 2011 Trafalgar Square, London, part of the Cultural Olympiad About the London Middle East Institute (LMEI) celebrations © Getty Volume 8 - Number 5 Th e London Middle East Institute (LMEI) draws upon the resources of London and SOAS to provide June – July 2012 teaching, training, research, publication, consultancy, outreach and other services related to the Middle East. It serves as a neutral forum for Middle East studies broadly defi ned and helps to create links between Editorial Board individuals and institutions with academic, commercial, diplomatic, media or other specialisations. Professor Nadje Al-Ali With its own professional staff of Middle East experts, the LMEI is further strengthened by its academic SOAS membership – the largest concentration of Middle East expertise in any institution in Europe. Th e LMEI also Ms Narguess Farzad has access to the SOAS Library, which houses over 150,000 volumes dealing with all aspects of the Middle SOAS East. LMEI’s Advisory Council is the driving force behind the Institute’s fundraising programme, for which Mrs Nevsal Hughes Association of European Journalists it takes primary responsibility. It seeks support for the LMEI generally and for specifi c components of its Mr Najm Jarrah programme of activities. Professor George Joff é Cambridge University Mr Max Scott Mission Statement: Gilgamesh Publishing Ms Sarah Searight British Foundation for the Study Th e aim of the LMEI, through education and research, is to promote knowledge of all aspects of the Middle of Arabia East including its complexities, problems, achievements and assets, both among the general public and with Dr Kathryn Spellman Poots those who have a special interest in the region. In this task it builds on two essential assets. First, it is based in AKU and LMEI London, a city which has unrivalled contemporary and historical connections and communications with the Dr Sarah Stewart LMEI Middle East including political, social, cultural, commercial and educational aspects. Secondly, the LMEI is Mrs Ionis Th ompson at SOAS, the only tertiary educational institution in the world whose explicit purpose is to provide education Saudi-British Society and BFSA and scholarship on the whole Middle East from prehistory until today. Dr Shelagh Weir SOAS Co-ordinating Editor LMEI Staff: Rhiannon Edwards Listings Director Dr Hassan Hakimian Deputy Director and Company Secretary Dr Sarah Stewart Vincenzo Paci-Delton Executive Offi cer Louise Hosking Designer Events and Magazine Coordinator Vincenzo Paci-Delton Shahla Geramipour Th e Middle East in London is published six times a year by the London Middle East Institute at SOAS Disclaimer: Letters to the Editor: Publisher and Opinions and views expressed in the Middle East Please send your letters to the editor at Editorial Offi ce in London are, unless otherwise stated, personal the LMEI address provided (see left panel) Th e London Middle East Institute views of authors and do not refl ect the views of their or email [email protected] School of Oriental and African Studies University of London organisations nor those of the LMEI or the Editorial Th ornaugh Street, Russell Square London WC1H 0XG Board. 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Contents 4 How Olympic organisers will LETTER TO THE EDITOR cater for Middle Eastern visitors Sarah Searight 5 EDITORIAL 20 For your comprehension 6 Translation at the 2012 games INSIGHT Rosamund Durnford-Slater Th e burden of history: Algeria LMEI Board of Trustees 50 years on 21 Professor Paul Webley (Chairman) Director, SOAS Roger Hardy Th e Abbas Hilmi II papers Dr John Curtis British Museum Will Berridge H E Sir Vincent Fean KCVO 8 Consul General to Jerusalem THE CULTURAL OLYMPIAD 22 Professor Ben Fortna, SOAS Th e world’s stage London’s Middle Eastern art Professor Graham Furniss, SOAS Nevsal Hughes world – a reality trip Mr Alan Jenkins Janet Rady Dr Karima Laachir, SOAS 10 Professor Annabelle Sreberny, SOAS Dr Barbara Zollner Shakespeare and the Middle REVIEWS Birkbeck College East 23 LMEI Advisory Council Nevsal Hughes and Sarah Searight BOOKS Lady Barbara Judge (Chair) Tripoli Witness by Rana Jawad Professor Muhammad A. S. Abdel Haleem Near and Middle East Department, SOAS 12 Oliver Miles H E Khalid Al-Duwaisan GVCO Music as the food of harmony Ambassador, Embassy of the State of Kuwait Mrs Haifa Al Kaylani Daniel Barenboim and the West- 24 Arab International Women’s Forum Eastern Divan Orchestra Encountering Islam by Paul Dr Khalid Bin Mohammed Al Khalifa President, University College of Bahrain Sarah Searight Auchterlonie Professor Tony Allan Peter Clark King’s College and SOAS Dr Alanoud Alsharekh 14 LMEI and Fellow, St Antony’s College Uniting the artist and the 25 Mr Farad Azima Iran Heritage Foundation athlete Dubai High, A Culture Trip by Professor Doris Behrens-Abouseif Moira Sinclair Michael Schindhelm Art and Archaeology Department, SOAS Dr Noel Brehony Peter Clark MENAS Associates Ltd. 15 Mr Charles L. O. Buderi Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP Born of the wind 26 Dr Elham Danish Th e Arabian horse and Books in brief Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia HE Mr Mazen Kemal Homoud equestrianism Ambassador, Embassy of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Ionis Th ompson OBITUARIES Mr Zaki Nusseibeh 27 Mr Rod Sampson Barclays Wealth, Dubai 16 Yousef Daneshvar Le Corbusier’s Gymnasium Founding Sponsor and 28 Member of the Caecilia Pieri and Mina Marefat Advisory Council Pope Shenouda Sheikh Mohamed bin Issa al Jaber 18 MBI Al Jaber Foundation Th e London Aquatics Centre 29 Rhiannon Edwards Chris Rundle 19 30 For your consolation EVENTS IN LONDON June-July 2012 The Middle East in London 3 LLETTERETTER TTOO THETHE EDITOREDITOR Volume 8 - Number 2 December 2011 - January 2012 £4 | €5 | US$6.5 Volumee 8 - NumberNuumber 3 Februaryy - MMarchaarrch 22012012 £44 | €€55 | USUS$6.5$6. 5 ££44 | | THIS ISSUE » IRAQ » IRAQ AFTER THE US WITHDRAWAL » IRAQI CINEMA » THE SEARCH FOR THE STOLEN COLLECTION OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM » SUMERIAN CUISINE » THE HYBRIDITY OF IRAQI CULTURE » MAPPING IRAQI ART » PLUS » REVIEWS AND EVENTS IN LONDON THIS ISSUE : IRAN ● The political cost of sanctions ● Iran’s online warwaar ● NorouzNNorouz ● Shirazeh Houshiary ● Veggiestan ● The Hajj in London ● Poetry ● PLUS ReviewsReeevvvivieieewsw and and TTHISHIS IISSUESSUE: PPALESTINEALESTINE ● PPalestinealestine SStudiestudies aatt SOASSOAS ● events in London ddeclineecline ● RReinforcingeinforcing thethe structuresstructures ooff occupationoccupation ● GGradationsradations ofof ppacificationacification sseekingeeking a solutionsolution ● RRightight ttoo rrights,ights, aandnd rrightight ttoo rreturneturn ● A pioneering anthropologistoppoolloogggist in PPalestinealestine ● PPalestinealestine oonn fi llmm ● EEdwarddward SSaidaid aandnd MMahmoudahmoud DarwishDarwish ● PPLUSLUS eeventsvents iinn LLondonondon Iran and the US – getting the facts right he article on ‘Th e political cost of Prince – but he said there was no doubt that the Kurds at Halabja, the fi rst reaction of Sanctions’ by Lord Norman Lamont Tehran started to make use of the events the State Department was [also] to blame Tin the February-March edition raises in Bahrain later by spreading its infl uence Iran.’ As noted in a Reuters article printed several important issues. 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