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Theater

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

‘Kiss,’ the play, phenomenally represents the struggle of cross-cultural communication

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Context means everything when it comes to cross-cultural representation. Without context, the beauty and intention of art is lost; the artist is forgotten.
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Theater

Friday, August 31, 2018

‘You can’t Google context’: Director Evren Odcikin hopes to bring perspective with ‘Kiss,’ a Syrian play

Odcikin is an advocate for rehearsals being spaces for the very conversations that the play hopes to inspire among audience members.
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Campus

Monday, March 10, 2014

Students commemorate three-year anniversary of Syrian uprising with demonstration, solidarity week

With their mouths taped shut and eyes blindfolded, students gathered in a silent flash mob on Sproul Plaza Monday to commemorate the three-year anniversary of the Syrian revolution.
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Campus

Monday, November 4, 2013

UN official calls for assistance to Palestinian refugees in Syria

Filippo Grandi, the commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, stressed the need for humanitarian action to support Palestinian refugees affected by the conflict in Syria in a lecture at Berkeley Law School on Monday.
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Campus

Monday, September 9, 2013

Demonstrators prepare for Tuesday anti-intervention rally on Sproul Plaza

With silver tape covering their mouths, around five demonstrators are holding up signs in front of Dwinelle Hall this morning in protest of proposed U.S. military intervention in Syria.
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News: Campus

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Silent protest against rape in Syrian civil war

A silent protest on Sproul Plaza highlighted the use of rape in Syria’s civil war. Read more here.

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