Sentences with phrase «diaspora who»

The award for best national pavilion went to Armenia, whose exhibition, «Armenity,» featured a group of artists from the Armenian diaspora who, as organizers of the show wrote, are «grandchildren of survivors of the Armenian Genocide — the first genocide of the 20th century» and builders of «a «transnational assembly» from the remnants of a shattered identity.»

I'm grateful for artists of the diaspora who came before me; they paved the way and made it possible for me to envision being an artist.

The exhibition includes works by internationally recognized and emerging contemporary artists from the continent and diaspora who draw on the land for inspiration, including El Anatsui, Ghada Amer, Sammy Baloji, Wangechi Mutu, Allan deSouza, Ingrid Mwangi and William Kentridge.

Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions: South Asian Art in the Diaspora, organized by Asia Society Museum with the support of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, considers the work of nineteen contemporary artists from the South Asian diaspora who explore notions of home and issues relating to migration, gender, race, and memory across mediums and aesthetics.

It includes pieces by internationally recognized and emerging contemporary artists from the continent and diaspora who draw on the land for inspiration, such as Sammy Baloji, Christine Dixie, Hassan Echair, Ingrid Mwangi, William Kentridge, George Osodi, Georgia Pappageorge, Jo Ratcliffe, Berni Searle, and Tchif.

Prof Margaret Murnane and David McCourt are both members of the Irish diaspora who are contributing significantly to research and innovation in their respective areas.»

The deputy Minister described Ghanaians living in the Diaspora who had travelled into the country at the behest of government to tap into its proposed one district, one factory policy, as «whiners»

The primary function of Zionism today is to stimulate Jews in the Diaspora who possess a sense of adventure and are proficient in one or another field of endeavor to come to Israel and contribute to its upbuilding.

Not exact matches

It's useful to consider that the startup environment is supported by Israeli and international investors, many of whom are members of the Jewish diaspora around the world who want to support both the startups but also pour money into the country's stream of commerce.

He is of significance for Judaism not only as religious philosopher, translator of the Bible, and translator and re-creator of Hasidic legends and thought, but also as a religious personality who has provided leadership of a rare quality during the time of his people's greatest trial and suffering since the beginning of the diaspora.

But it should also motivate those who remain in the Diaspora to perpetuate their Jewish heritage and foster their Jewish group individuality.

It also could have made sense to some strict monotheists, to people who had been brought up in the synagogue circles of the diaspora and were acquainted with the apocalyptic thought of the time.

His family must have been of the diaspora, that is, Jews who lived abroad and only occasionally came back to the homeland to observe the Feast of the Passover.

We are in the diaspora today but our Saviour who is and has always been our G - d and the G - d of our ancestors will save us once again as G - d has promised.

Today we are still in the diaspora but we Jews know who we are because the links have never been broken.

Second, suburbs are becoming home to a new Diaspora that includes new immigrants and refugees, as well as former urban poor who fled the cities.

They maintained this tradition in the Diaspora in Christian Europe, and their superior education made them useful to rulers, who often had few literate subjects.

It is clear from everyone who has written or spoken of their reason for leaving that intolerance and injustice are neck and neck for the two leading causes of this diaspora: Intolerance for other races, other beliefs, other opinions, and now other orientations; injustice to the powerless, the voiceless, the meek, the poor, and the exploited (be it economically, emotionally, or sexually).

These relatively modest numbers are dwarfed, though, by estimates of the size of the «Scottish diaspora» using looser interpretations of the term that include those with more distant Scottish ancestry, in particular those who still consider themselves to be, in some way, Scottish.

But it also reflects the fact that reform - minded Iranians are more likely to have friends and family who have left the country or to have been abroad themselves, and much of the information spread worldwide has been distributed by members of the Iranian diaspora, whether or not it actually originated in Iran itself.

The man of God who has been a blessing unto many influential people within Ghana and the diaspora expressed his profound gratitude to God for his life and encouraged the people who had gathered to celebrate with him to continuously have faith in God in all situations of life.

To arrogate to itself the powers to simply dump people in jail indefinitely is, to say the least, uncivilized and barbaric; to hang serious allegations against a person without proof of evidence, as the judge noted in the case of Senator Bala Mohammed, is malicious, callous and unacceptable; and to constrain citizens with brazen impunity, in defiance of court orders, is to send a wrong signal to Diaspora Nigerians and other foreign investors who, paradoxically, our President and his ministers, have been courting assiduously, that the law can not protect both they and their investments.

MPs concluded that the potential negative effects, both on the diaspora communities who consume khat in the UK, and on the growers who cultivate it in Africa, outweighed any possible benefits of the ban.

New York State Assemblymember Adriano Espaillat, who is running to become the first member of Congress of Dominican descent, spoke to the significance of Justo's name being honored in a community in the United States so closely identified with the Dominican diaspora.

Chief Sam - Sumana, who was dismissed under controversial circumstances in 2015, informed the former President that his delegation comprised leaders drawn from several political groups in Sierra Leone and the diaspora, who had decided to come together as a coalition to contest the country's next election.

Mr. Speaker, Section 17 (1) of the Act in issue provides: «Subject to this section, the Minister may on an application and with the approval of the President grant the status of right of abode to any of the following persons: a) a Ghanaian by birth, adoption, registration or naturalization, within the meaning of the Citizenship Act who by reason of his acquisition of a foreign nationality has lost his Ghanaian citizenship; and b) a person of African descent in the Diaspora.

President Muhammadu Buhari with the delegation of the Buhari Diaspora Support Organisation, who paid him a visit in London on Sunday.

The Biafra liberation movement is sacrosanct and waxing stronger both home and in diaspora and will not go back in the quest for the restoration of Biafra, anybody who is thinking to sabotage the struggle is doing that to his or her own detriment».

«Ametuo has turned himself to a diaspora Chairman who doesn't know what is happening in Kogi State.

Two studies, one led by geneticist Harry Ostrer of the New York University School of Medicine, and the other by geneticist Doron Behar of the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, Israel, traced the three main Diaspora groups — Ashkenazim, Sephardim from Spain and Portugal, and Oriental Jews from the Middle East — to people who all lived in the Middle East about 2000 years ago.

It's not so much that there are no Lebanese singles in Canada — it is the world's 7th biggest Lebanese diaspora after all1 - but can be tricky to meet single men and women who share both your heritage and your hopes for the future.

This vision was inspired by the founder a forward thinking technology entrepreneur who recognised the potential of bringing a diverse group of Latino people from the Latino Diaspora together.

This vision was inspired by the founder a forward thinking technology entrepreneur who recognised the potential of bringing a diverse group of Indian people from the Indian Diaspora together.

This vision was inspired by the founder a forward thinking technology entrepreneur who recognised the potential of bringing a diverse group of African people from the African Diaspora together.

This vision was inspired by the founder a forward thinking technology entrepreneur who recognised the potential of bringing a diverse group of Nigerian people from the Nigerian Diaspora together.

This vision was inspired by the founder a forward thinking technology entrepreneur who recognised the potential of bringing a diverse group of Arab people from the Arab Diaspora together.

The company's three flagship online dating properties, buzzArab, 99Turkiye, and buzzMuslim, make it simple for singles in the Arab, Turkish, and Muslim diasporas to find partners who share their beliefs and values.

The issue of intermarriage has largely been one for diaspora jews — the jews who live outside israel.

This vision was inspired by the founder a forward thinking technology entrepreneur who recognised the potential of bringing a diverse group of Asian people from the Asian Diaspora together.

This vision was inspired by the founder a forward thinking technology entrepreneur who recognised the potential of bringing a diverse group of Black people from the African Diaspora together.

The film's stars are some of the most recognisable black actors, a combination of Africans from the continent and the diaspora: Angela Bassett plays T'Challa's stepmother, Ramonda; Lupita Nyong» o is Nakia, a member of the Dora Milaje; Michael B Jordan is our villain, Erik Killmonger — tellingly, a Wakandan who grew up in exile; and, having already mesmerised audiences in 2017's big black film Get Out, British - Ugandan actor Daniel Kaluuya joins the cast as W'Kabi, T'Challa's best friend.

Ward, who says he is tone - deaf and has little interest in music or hobbies, is still mostly into «collecting stuff from the streets» in his free time - though he adds that he has recently become fascinated with reading the works of Robert Farris Thompson, a professor at Yale who has written extensively on the art of Africa and its diaspora.

British artists to see in Venice: «Nathaniel Mellors, who is exhibiting alongside Erkka Nissinen at the Finnish Pavilion; and the Diaspora Pavilion near the Rialto, with work by Isaac Julien, Yinka Shonibare, Barbara Walker and others.

He would surely have been pleased to play host to «Nari Ward: Sun Splashed,» a midcareer retrospective of a New York artist who has woven Africa, via its Caribbean diaspora, into his art.

The Atlanta Constitutional Journal reports that Grace Stanislaus, who previously led Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco and the Romare Bearden Foundation in New York has been named executive director of the National Black Arts Festival.

«Working with artists at the beginning of their careers is wonderful,» says Jenkins - Johnson, who recently pledged $ 50,000 to the emerging artist program at San Francisco's Museum of African Diaspora in a separate show of support for black artists.

In the mid-1940s, Hurtado frequently traveled between New York and Mexico City, where she worked within an international group of artists and writers who were part of the World War II diaspora.

«This touring exhibit at the Nasher is a spectacular corrective, highlighting the African - diaspora abstract artists who refined this new way of seeing.»

Edwards who feels deeply connected to the African Diaspora, creates sculptures by welding metal objects such as nails, chains, barbed wire, tools, knives, hooks and machine parts.

John Edmonds featured in Photographers Who Have Captured LGBTQ Life in the African Diaspora by Yelena Keller for Artsy 16 August 2017