Ramzi Aburedwan – a stone-throwing poster boy of the first intifada – is now using music to bring ‘normality’ to Palestinian life. Ivan Solotaroff hears his incredible storyIn the spring of 1996,a pair of bullet-proof Chevy Suburbans pulled into the West Bank refugee camp of Al Amari, bearing an American chamber-music ensemble to teach music to the camp’s children. The Oslo process had brought a brief lull to 48 years of Israeli-Palestinian hostility, and an interim Palestinian state in nearby Ramallah and a promise of something the country had never really seen: normality.Ramzi fled from the soldiers’ bullets down the alleys and across the rooftops of the Al Amari camp.Continue reading...,
Source: theguardian.com