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  • The Power of Jewelry

    L'ÉCOLE Middle East, School of Jewelry Arts Building 10, Dubai Design District, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    One in a series of talks exploring the history and symbolism of gemstones and jewellery across the world. Speakers are art historians May El Hage andDavid Usieto Cabrera, both lecturers at L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts. Right: Armband with Herakles [... more]

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  • Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya’s Swahili Coast

    NYUAD Institute Building Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

    Andrew Eisenberg, Associate Professor of Music at NYUAD and Head of the Music Program there, combines oral history, ethnography, and musical analysis to explore how musicians in twentieth-century Mombasa used Arab and Indian musical influences to navigate questions of identity, [... more]

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