Sentences with phrase «from diaspora»

From the Diaspora artists, I'm excited about how they mine photographs in the family albums their parents brought when they left Guyana and how they formulate visual narratives about Guyana from these personal archives.
«Today, I think the fair is still a necessity because African artists and artists from the diaspora are well underrepresented on international platforms and in exhibitions,» explains El Glaoui.
I really wanted to target the main art cities of the world, which are New York and London, and make sure that visibility was accessible to contemporary African artists and the artists from the diaspora
The Haitian Heritage Museum Exhibition Series, opens up cross border dialogues through vibrant artistic expressions from the Diaspora.
I would like visitors to go away with some amazing paintings or memories of the range of sophistication and expertise and an understanding of the huge and explosive range of contemporary reality and possibilities emanating from within the continent and from the diaspora.
Since 1994, Iniva has been celebrating and promoting the work of artists of African and Asian descent and from the diaspora.
Our focus spans the African Diaspora across history, from the diaspora at the origin of human existence through the contemporary African Diaspora that has affected communities and cultures around the world.
At the heart of it is «the idea of memory and the afterlife and how we hold on to people,» said Victoria Cooke, director of Gallery 1957, which was founded two years ago to focus on work by West African artists and others from the diaspora.
«I'm from the South Asian diaspora, and I can tell you that if you have a conversation with someone from this diaspora about a mental health issue, it's probably not going to go very well.»
There are also psychological reasons why it would be beneficial for health professionals from the diaspora to volunteer in West Africa.
During the DiploHack, embassies discussed possible scenarios where backlash could occur from diaspora communities and suggested a number of key points that a MFA and embassy should stick by when such situations might occur.
Herod the Great, in order to gain control over the Sanhedrin, would import important personages from the diaspora and place them on the Sanhedrin.
E. Nevertheless some Jews remained, presumably in parts of Galilee and in Hebron, and their ranks were swelled from time to time by new arrivals from the diaspora.
Thanh said his airline benefited from a diaspora of 2 million Vietnamese living in the United States, but most of the traffic was more likely to be driven by price rather than the convenience of saving a few hours of travel time.
Duong Tri Thanh said his airline benefited from a diaspora of 2 million Vietnamese living in the United States, but most of the traffic was more likely to be driven by price rather than the convenience of saving a few hours of travel time.

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Diaspora, a tech company that wants to build a social network to rival Facebook got more than $ 200,000 in seed money from a Kickstarter campaign
Incidentally, he has done many projects with people from the Russian - language diaspora.
The fourth document was lifted from a blog run by the South Korean group «Friends of MOFA» detailing a Korean Day celebration in late September 2017 during which President Moon Jae - in spoke about the importance of the Korean diaspora and the upcoming Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
«In addition, about 700,000 of the 2 million lulavs purchased in Jewish communities in the Diaspora, primarily in North America and Europe, normally come from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.»
This implies that Jewish existence in the diaspora from the time of the exile to the present can not be understood as Judaism in the full sense of the term.
From «Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England» by Anthony Julius pages 563 - 564:
In the Spanish - speaking nations and diaspora, evangélico carries the ideas of freedom from political compromise, religious coercion, and ideological rigidness.
The influx of cheap Arab labor from the occupied territories has undermined one of the most basic concepts of mainstream Zionism, avodah ivrit — the sacredness of Jewish labor, the idea that Jews must stop being middlemen, as they were so often forced to be in the Diaspora, and do their own dirty work.
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).
Instead, it serves as a resource alongside Knoff and other reading in the diaspora of monographs, as a background to the question: What can we learn from the history of the Sunday school?
Our state of affairs in the diaspora (Russia excepted) has never been better and our state of affairs in our State, though constantly endangered by threats from real enemies, is strong and politically powerful.
Some tribes are considered «lost,» due to various diasporas (when Jews were exiled from Israel), but they're certainly not all descended from Judah.
Topics were approached from several vantages, emphasising the role and interest of states; «return» migrants; oppositional movements; diaspora, migrant and exiled communities abroad; regional networks; and elite conceptualisations of change.
As the founder of Global Fusion Productions Inc and Head of Marketing and Global Branding with KTA Communications Inc, she had come from the United Kingdom to participate in the Diaspora summit.
It also partly explains why the violence between Turks and Kurds has now «travelled» (to borrow Edward Said's term) from the Middle East to Europe, with major clashes taking place between the large Kurdish and Turkish diaspora communities in Germany and Sweden since last week.
According to the former president, apart from oil, diaspora Nigerians are the single largest source of capital in - flow into the -LSB-...]
IPOB Media and Publicity Officer, Mr. Emma Powerful said IPOB is a non violent group with responsible men in the society in Nigeria and in diaspora as members and therefore, can not involve in any violent activity that may possibly harm or take the life of anybody from within and outside Nigeria.
He stated, «The balance of the 2017 external borrowing, in the sum of $ 3.2 bn, is planned to be partially sourced from issuances in the ICM of $ 2.5 bn through Eurobonds or a combination of Eurobonds and Diaspora Bonds, while $ 700m is proposed to be raised from multilateral sources.
The People of Southern Kaduna in Diaspora (SOKAD) has described as, «deficient of logic and reason» the non inclusion of Kaduna state by the sub-committee of the National Economic Council (NEC) set up to visit frontline States suffering from herdsmen versus farmers violence.
According to her the role of the Ghanaian Diaspora in national development has won unprecedented recognition from the current government.
«The Igbo from all over the country and in the Diaspora should be advised to converge in their region in the South - East for a plebiscite to be organized and conducted by the United Nations and other regional bodies for them to categorically to decide between remaining part of Nigeria or having their separate country.
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.
From Nigeria House in the United Kingdom to «Home office» in Abuja, President Muhammadu Buhari returned after 104 days in the Diaspora last Saturday.
He said: «Election Management Bodies in our sub-regions and beyond have deployed technology in one way or another to improve on the processes, administration and outcome of elections, ranging from training and capacity - building for electoral officials, promotion of inclusivity in the electoral process (youths, women, PWDs, IDPs and out - of - country / diaspora voters), the biometric registration of voters, delineation of electoral constituencies, geo - referencing of existing as well as the creation of new polling units, establishment of robust electronic databases, accreditation of voters during elections, actual voting and the speedy and more accurate collation / transmission of results.
A group under the aegis of Akwa - Ibom in the Diaspora, has rejected the ministerial nominee from the state.
Friday, October 17th from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Gathering of Souls Jam at La Marqueta 115th Street and Park Avenue LIVE fusion jazz music & open jam session hosted by acclaimed Puerto Rican sax player Mario Castro, performance artist María Cotto, LIVE painting by Nicole Bueso, XY Atelier Gallery & Boutique, Photo Exhibit by José Rodríguez: DIASPORA, and pop - up vendors.
Following the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, the prospect of better training opportunities, resources for research, and living conditions triggered a diaspora of young scientists from the former Eastern Bloc.
With special - funding support from a few national projects, the universities have managed to attract elite researchers and academics from abroad, mainly from the Chinese diaspora, to work in China.
Volunteers from the West African diaspora are uniquely qualified to help with the Ebola epidemic, said Charles Dean, also with US Diversified Power Company.
The research team, including members of Prof. Keinan's lab, Prof. Eitan Friedman of TAU's Sackler School of Medicine, and Prof. Gil Azmon and colleagues at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the University of Haifa, based their study on data from the Jewish HapMap project, an international effort led by Prof. Harry Ostrer of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, to determine the genetic history of worldwide Jewish diasporas.
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.
This was long before modern human's diaspora from Africa and even long before the evolutionary diversification of Pygmies in Central Africa and before the emergence of the hunters and gatherers of East Africa.
And now, at one Canadian university, a yoga class designed to include disabled students has been canceled after concerns the practice was taken from a culture that «experienced oppression, cultural genocide and diasporas due to colonialism and western supremacy,» according to the group that once sponsored it.
My grandmother was from the Italian part of Switzerland, and part of the Italian Swiss diaspora.
At the more affordable end of the market, the lack of a tailored offering by Western brands can be advantageous for more experienced operators from the Indian diaspora like Micky and Renuka Jagtiani's Landmark Group in Dubai, which penetrated the subcontinent much earlier through its price - conscious chain Max.
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