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  • Netherlands end Kingdom's bicentenary celebration in Amsterdam

    NETHERLAND, 2015/09/29 The Netherlands finished the celebration of 200 years of the Kingdom of the Netherlands with a festivity in Amsterdam Saturday night. The Kingdom of the Netherlands started between 1813 and 1815. To celebrate this birth, a national committee arranged events and festivities from November 2013 to September 2015. Six major events and several side events were organized to commemorate the Kingdom's democratic achievements and the bicentenary.

  • Gunter Grass, the German novelist, social critic and Nobel Prize winner, died

    GERMANY, 2015/05/02 Gunter Grass, the German novelist, social critic and Nobel Prize winner, died of undisclosed causes on April 13 in the German town of Lubeck. He was 87 years old. Grass wrote additional than 30 plays, novels, books of poems, essays and memoirs. He was the author of “The Tin Drum”, an epic treatment of the Nazi era. A broad-shouldered man with a drooping mustache, Grass spurned the German tradition of keeping a cool intellectual distance, insisting that a writer’s business was to be at the frontline of moral and political debate. For a lot of, he was the voice of a German generation that came of age in World War II and bore the burden of their parents’ guilt for the atrocities of the Nazis.

  • An historic synagogue in Essaouira, Morocco is to be refurbished

    GERMANY, 2014/02/14 An historic synagogue in Essaouira, Morocco is to be refurbished in a joint project with the German Foreign Ministry. It will be the second synagogue to be restored under a appropriate German government program. Tuesday’s announcement came as the Moroccan Ambassador in Berlin, Omar Zniber, launched an exhibit at the embassy’s cultural center of photographs of Moroccan Jews from the 1960s inclunding new photos of synagogues in the country, both pre- and post-renovation.

  • Rosy images of Paris

    FRANCE, 2013/08/11 Paris has displayed a string of portraits of the lives of “ordinary Parisians” on advertising billboards across the city, using sketches that have delighted tourists but left locals somewhat bemused. “Les Parisiens” features 48 different comic sketches by artist Kanako in 1,000 locations around the city – see slide-show below. “The idea is to offer something free for the summer on billboards that would otherwise be used for advertising or public service messages,” city hall spokesman Lionel Bordeaux told FRANCE 24.

  • How The Gems Of French Pastry Seduced The World

    FRANCE, 2013/05/02 The world’s love affair with French macarons is here to remain . In order to meet world demands, the pastry chef who made macarons famous, Pierre Hermé, is about to step up production in the factory where most of his macarons are created – always by hand.

  • Contemporary art spruces up downtown Cairo

    EGYPT, 2013/04/27 Dubbed D-Caf, the 'Downtown-contemporaray arts festival' in Cairo is bringing a welcome splash of contemporary art to the city's increasingly dilapidated centre. Running for 19 days, the second edition of D-Caf is a celebration of modern art in amount its forms, inclunding theater, dance, cinema, music and a miss-mash of genres and artists from Europe and the Mediterranean basin.

  • Culture: 'A new wind is blowing in Europe

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2013/01/12 Faced with a continued fall in ticket sales, cultural institutions in Europe should be looking for ways to reach new audiences and for new ways to reach restless existing audiences. “A change of paradigm is occurring,” Ann Branch, a top EU culture official, said during a recent conference on audience development organised by the European Commission.
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