I was going through YouTube videos and came across Dabke folk dances from the Levantine. I realised that there are some similarities with the traditional Nati folk dances native to the states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttrakhand in India. There are also similarities with the Thabal Chongba dance from Manipur and traditional dances from Greece.
Nati from Himachal
Palestinian Dabke
Lebanese Dabke
Kurdish
Greek traditional dances
Manipuri Thabal Chongba
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18 March 2021
Thabal chongba, Nati, Dabke and other similar dances
25 February 2009
Naomi Klein wins the inaugural Warwick Prize for Writing
Attended the inaugural Warwick Prize for Writing ceremony yesterday evening. It was a small affair compared to other award ceremonies I have attended but I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the panellists.
The setting for the ceremony was Mead hall in the Warwick Arts Centre surrounded by some wacky art.
Naomi Klien won the £50,000 award for her controversial book 'The Shock Doctrine
'.
The Shock Doctrine
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick's Professor Nigel Thrift addressing the audience
In this book, Naomi argues against the well accepted free market policies as given by Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics. She also talks about a group of people who profit when disasters occurs around the World, whom she refers to as "the shock doctors".
Naomi accepting the prize
Naomi posing for the cameras
I am really proud to have been involved in the initial judging panels. It was really a tough process considering the theme this year was "complexity" and the fact that it was cross-disciplinary open to substantial pieces of writing in the English language and in any genre or form. This includes translations from other languages.
Selecting the winner for this year went through several rounds and the longlist of 20 titles came out in December last year. The list was finally whittled down to a short-list of six international titles.
Was slightly surprised because both the cover design and the title on the Amazon.com site is slightly different from the one I have. It costs £9.99 at the University book store but I got it at a special price of only £7.99 and I had it autographed by the author as well.
You can now get this International bestseller from Amazon.com
The setting for the ceremony was Mead hall in the Warwick Arts Centre surrounded by some wacky art.
Naomi Klien won the £50,000 award for her controversial book 'The Shock Doctrine
'.The Shock Doctrine
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick's Professor Nigel Thrift addressing the audience
In this book, Naomi argues against the well accepted free market policies as given by Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics. She also talks about a group of people who profit when disasters occurs around the World, whom she refers to as "the shock doctors".
Naomi accepting the prize
Naomi posing for the cameras
I am really proud to have been involved in the initial judging panels. It was really a tough process considering the theme this year was "complexity" and the fact that it was cross-disciplinary open to substantial pieces of writing in the English language and in any genre or form. This includes translations from other languages.
Selecting the winner for this year went through several rounds and the longlist of 20 titles came out in December last year. The list was finally whittled down to a short-list of six international titles.
Was slightly surprised because both the cover design and the title on the Amazon.com site is slightly different from the one I have. It costs £9.99 at the University book store but I got it at a special price of only £7.99 and I had it autographed by the author as well.
You can now get this International bestseller from Amazon.com
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