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Arts at MIT’s Visiting Artists Program is featuring the work of alumnus Jamshied Sharifi ‘83 this week with a panel about the Arab Spring, which inspired a new work commissioned by and for the MIT Wind Ensemble, _Awakening_.
A panel discussion held on March 13 in Killian Hall, titled _Awakening the Arab Spring_, featured Sharifi with members of the MIT community, including Associate Provost and Ford International Professor of History Philip S. Khoury; Obaidah Abuhashem ‘12, president of the MIT Arab Students’ Organization; and Emily Jackson ’12, president of the MIT Wind Ensemble.
During the panel, excerpts from _Awakening _were performed by Sharifi and members of the Wind Ensemble, including Jackson, in a preview of the world premiere that will take place on Saturday, March 17, at 8 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium. Tickets are free for this concert in advance and $5 at the door.
In a succinct overview of the revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests in the Arab World that began in December 2010, Khoury declared himself a “pess-optimist” — both pessimistic and optimistic in the same breath — about the prospects for democratic reform in the Middle East. Abuhashem, a native of the Gaza Strip, spoke of his ...
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