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DISSONANCE and HARMONY:
Two Campus Conversations
on the
Return to Brown
of the
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra  

"Dissonance and Harmony: A Conversation"

Thursday, January 24
6:00pm
Friedman Auditorium, Metcalf Chemistry Building

A Conversation with

Daniel Barenboim, co-founder and music director, The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra  

Mariam Said, vice-chair, The Barenboim-Said Foundation  

"A Journey of Hope: Faith, Spirituality and Tolerance"
Izzeldin Abuelaish, MD, MPH Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Founder, The Daughters for Life Foundation, author of I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity  

"Beyond Zionism, A New Paradigm for Peace and Reconciliation in Palestine/Israel"
Miko Peled, Peace Activist and author of The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine  

Free and open to the public.

A photo gallery from the event.

Watch the video from this event!

For more information about Dr. Abuelaish.

"Dissonance and Harmony:
The Arab-Israeli Conflict Through Music and Academic Discourse"

Friday, January 25
7:00pm
Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Arts
154 Angell Street

Middle East Studies invites the Brown community to an evening of discourse and social interaction with members of Daniel Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.

Registration for the panel discussion, followed by food and entertainment, is on the Center for Middle East Studies website at http://www.middleeastbrown.org. Registration is required; seating is limited.

A photo gallery from this event.

Watch the video from this event!

Free and open to the Brown Community.

These campus conversations are co-sponsored by the Cogut Center for the Humanities and the Center for Middle East Studies.

"Beethoven, Barenboim
and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra"

Two concerts
January 26 and 28, 2013
Veterans' Memorial Auditorium
1 Avenue of the Arts

8:00pm performances

January 26, 2013
Beethoven:
Symphonies nos. 2 and 3 (“Eroica”)

and

January 28, 2013
Beethoven: Symphonies nos. 1, 8 and 5

Concert tickets on sale at the VMA box office!