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Orchestra of Mideast Musicians Builds Bridges for Peace

The United Nations has designated the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, made up of musicians from Israel, the Palestinian territories and other parts of the Middle East, as a Global Advocate for Cultural Understanding. The orchestra was co-founded in 1999 by Argentine-Israeli conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim and the late Palestinian literary scholar Edward Said as an instrument of peace and tolerance. Within the orchestra, music is seen as a vehicle of cultural understanding. U.N....

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