The Songs That We Sing
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Diverse cultures, ethnicities meet at Mardin film festival
MARDIN - The fourth film festival of the southeastern city of Mardin, SineMardin, kicked off Saturday night at a ceremony held at the historical Erdoba Mansion. The ceremony hosted guests from Sweden, Syria and the US. ’Even though we are tired when the festival ends each year, we can’t turn our back on Mardin ,’ says program director Zihni Sümer.
Singing for unity at the Choir Fest
ANKARA-A number of people, regardless of their work, age or hometown, came together to sing for peace and unity at the 14th Choir Festival, which ended Sunday. The number of participants, both amateur and professional, as well as audiences for the event increases each year
The many eras of Eurovision
ISTANBUL - Competing at the Eurovision Song Contest since 1975, Turkey has brought up the rear with an operetta, taken the stage with a song dedicated to petrol during an oil crisis and won by singing in English. This year the voting system has been changed and the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review takes a closer look at this continent-wide event through interviews with former jury members, Turkish Radio and Television Association, or TRT, officials and diehard fans
National habits
One of the issues that troubles the minds of the contemporary nomad (that group of international civil servants, diplomats, multinational company managers and other vagabonds who have to change places every now and then) is whether there is such a thing as national characters - or is that simply an illusion?
After bombs, Iraqi band rockin’ in USA
NEWJERSEY - Tales of bands struggling through hard times and overcoming obstacles to stardom are as old as rock itself. But Iraqi rock band Acrassicauda has had a harder time than most. After three years living as refugees in Syria and Turkey, the band is in the US
