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president donald trump has paid no tax in 10 of the last 15 years the paper says he avoided taxes by declaring large business losses and now personally i was creditors more than 300000000 dollars the president has dismissed the report as false turkish prosecutors have named 6 more saudi nationals as suspects in the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi 20 saudi nationals are already in trial on trial suspects are not in turkey and been tried in absentia earlier this month a saudi court jailed 8 people for up to 20 years remember how she was murdered in the saudi consulate in istanbul 2 years ago and the better russian opposition leader skier says e.u. leaders could help mediate a national dialogue follows another day of mass protests and arrests on sunday demonstrators have been demanding president alexander lukashenko to resign after last month's disputed election that's not for today thanks for company talk to us

here is next. al jazeera. well every. move. the lebanese have seen the walls of their capital beirut for time and time again. but the catastrophic explosion of the 4th of august is described by many here as

the biggest tragedy in the country's history. is 18 years old too young to remember much of lebanon's history but she sings this iconic song to do it as if she has seen it all. coming in. close to $3000.00 tons of ammonium nitrate stored at the capital sports in an explosion that was heard cross the mediterranean. around $180.00 people were killed thousands injured hundreds of thousands made homeless the repair bill will cost. was.

the government resigned but the consequences remain. lebanese once again came out to pick up the pieces. lebanon is described as the beginning of the orange and the beginning of the west it's seen the flourishing of diverse civilizations. from the phoenicians to the romans and ever since. it's been at the crossroads of different faiths and beliefs conquered by the ultimate and the french. enduring 15 years of civil war and conflicts with syria. and israel. nobody knows what will come next but the lebanese capital has always been at the heart of this region's arts and

culture a crutch in difficult times. i'm stephanie decker in beirut the capital's old opera house still stands but broken no voices a feel that for decades since before the civil war and the ever changing journey of the lebanese nation has been written about in many history books and it's been the rated painted and sung about by its artists and thinkers from tibet on. to fadal lose to sight on this edition talked to al-jazeera will be joined by lebanon's contemporary artists and intellectuals will be exploring how their work reflects what is happening here. given aquino is a musician a pianist and composer and has recently produced a track to the american artist what. the proceeds will be going to charity to help

rebuild and help its people off the catastrophic explosion of the 4th of august. the lyrics are really nice really deep and what we talked about a lot like always the protest song the problem with the protest songs is that they always sound like protest songs whereas if you take like bob marley 80 percent of his songs were protest songs. they sounded like love songs. she said beard. to see the guy through the. stage. see. that's me to. the tune. standing still.

be marched through the city. how long must you wait. how long. even when the ball. was gonna rise from there. that's our story. you started i was ring you started thinking when you were born you know. that right about now the good and bad things of being in love and i start at 4 because i was just for my brothers who are older than me and they used to play a trick i thought that but i don't read that that's what they tell ok i couldn't play because my fingers were. not look at the mouth they were quite right and.

then i got hooked to the piano because of really trivial and stupid things. at that time we had a lot of power shortages still though you still have and i was to say we still have to like 40 years and the pm of the need of christie so it was one of these stories that i had that didn't need batteries or i would restore something look at what i mean trivial you've got such a fragmented country yeah can use it unite. yes of course music can unite course music can unite and music should unite the art in general should unite i'm not talking only about music the theater should unite that is very important especially in an evolutions books might unite articles the newspapers. most of them are dead now we should revive them to tell me a little bit about how you use music i mean you just produce this incredible song your composer europeanized where do you get your inspiration from and what is the

message i mean is it about humanity as a political act how do you i've always been close to. social. if you want things and and and i've always fought for having about the lebanon i'm totally in love with this country but i feel like i'm in love with a person that doesn't love me back i played a tune called i would love to play for a day called i want to be that many like i love you would know. and that's how out of nation ship is with lebanon. it's like when you're in love with a bad person and your parents tell you that this person is about your friends that this person is we've all been there everything on you the relationship we have with this country is toxic but not because of the country it's been run in

a very bad way since the late sixty's we've lost our country since the. rule of this country and we're still has to believe that there is good and if there are people who live to the right places and the reforms are done. so when you talk about your music i mean where does it where does it come from how do you when you compose where does it come from daily life you know i'm always asked the question of how do you compose what do you do it's the stupidest thing to do is to isolate yourself and to say that today i'm going to do music or to them to you have to live a normal life music and art comes from life itself so if you are not love you cannot make music if you do not love you cannot make use if you are not envied you cannot make music if you don't hate you cannot make music comes from a deep passion it comes from everything and i always tell myself that every time

i'm i'm i'm short on stories because a dental day i'm telling the story in music or in song or whatever just go to the airport and at the airport at the welcoming rivals. you see the daughter coming back home after years. coming back home to bury the grandfather or the mother or the order that. the kids waiting for their father to come because he's been working abroad and. the woman. has a boyfriend but what i would like these are the stories that make me do music. the airport the concept of leaving returning. artist. exploring. this image that a lot of people post when they come to lebanon which is that you know i'm back to

lebanon and i take a picture of beirut from the from the plane and i think people think of it as all this very happy moment but it's symptomatic of a very sad economic and political reality that we need to take. and also the title of this series is. perhaps the moon is beautiful because it's far to try to describe kind of our paradoxical relationship with lebanon when you're there you want to be out when you're out you want to be there and it's kind of a cycle that i felt many many times and then the 2nd one second part of the series is these the chaos associated with the migration that says we have this one we have the one next to you and these are like i think these are like. in lebanon has focused on you know the very obvious civil war like destruction and stuff but there is a much more. psychological psychological and there's the language of the migration which is if you think about what our commonalities between there have been more from different sects and really. their sects you don't have that many things except

these things right the symptoms of. the system we live in this actually talk about how people are pushed out of their countries to become to some degree really so in terms of your inspiration i mean you didn't. of the civil war is it a legacy that you do feel and you do have and does it affect your work when you say civil war like i think i think the general agreed is basically the armed conflict but if you think about what we what i lived i was born post ninety's i've never seen like sit with it most people talk about but the thing is the civil war was institutionalized to a large degree where the government became a vehicle for the same people that were fighting the war to take public office and basically run these kind of skirmishes or these battles with an institution stake instead of taking land physically in the lebanon they were taking kind of positions throughout the government and draining the country's resources are you trying to educate people raise awareness give hope give

a message i mean how do you see your sort of journey as an artist has it changed i have a problem with i think personally with people who are indifferent to they say oh like for example i don't need to care about politics or the economy or the order we live in because like i just go about my own personal life completely separate separately but this is not true if you were where you choose to be located the oppression you feel at the airport and even even the most basic of utilitarian object which is the electric plug is defined by. political economy politics the global or the other we live in then you're not indifferent you're just clueless about your what is what is designing your life so this is where the creations happen yeah the workspace. going back to this theme of like people being indifferent and not being aware of how the politics and the kind of

the global world order impact their identity i think i've chosen the most irritating of objects that is really rich and it's vestiges of all those dynamics of political economy and history that have happened and i think a lot of people travel to really focus you know superficial level they start collecting these outlets and sockets and converters that don't really match each other in these 2 out of frustration which is associated with being constantly in different places and i think the more you travel the more you need your assortment starts getting and it becomes something we kind of like your fingerprint but the more interesting thing is electric plugs themselves are very kind of political object that does the history of the world so for example japan uses the u.s. standards because it was imposed on them post-war door to african countries. most african countries have. standard of european countries that correspond to them for example in the gulf we have the post toward war 2 british standards whereas

india has the pre-war there were 2 british standard does you really the story of korean isolation of economic powers it was like we were discussing that when you travel so much you need them you need to you need your doctor to fly in to connect like we have to adapt and we keep travelling so much even the lexicon of these like it's about power it's about fitting and it's like adapting it's not converting all of those things it's true right it's also it's a very nice symbolism to what you go through as you can change places live i'm never going to get up like going to adapt in the same way like it is it's like a story like a diary exactly and i think this is kind of the point of like to some degree art is to change your perception about things and i think if these series this series changes your perception about the interpretation of what a blog means. so

this is the entrance. to explain just a little bit. this is like the time when i was doing. these portraits. are individuals. the figures that typically see that our politicians on the street i decided to put. up with calligraphy so. even how they could. actually compose a calligraphy which. typically does not use figuration it uses. so this is iconic. i think this one was the 1st one. i think.

it was there was a longing for being more represented in the public space being in the public space more like them and i think also there was a. cord with people. today if i paint something like this with. resonate it might actually be a bit tone deaf that's why i think i've moved on i think it's kind of to some degree the role of the artist is to. maybe make a reading of the site of the of the city. and be able to like it's called was kind of like a communal shrink or psych psychologist right you try to understand and associate the different element or you construct a different element that the city is passing through or people are crossing through or the world this path is passing through and then put them in or in a way that makes people understand themselves i think this did it very well in the

past i think mind you were works the way for hopefully for what we're going through today i think it's about trying to on the becoming but understanding ourselves. the understanding of self in our environment is something author and yes what he says is endemic to the process of writing and storytelling. writing is a jordan is a very. journeys and then sure journey is go out for yourself to. give yourself to to unexpected situations and in this. for me. this is how i understand the act of writing more or less you discover new things every time in every new experience you either discover . the parts of yourself which you'd never knew existed before and this is of course the way to discover the others so in

a sense you. know. people will see themselves in the mirror but the mirror never sees her said. this is the treasure part of heredity how much has what you've experienced. affected how you like how you view things you write your condition right. before you ask me about that i wrote about many words i didn't invent were i didn't go to words words came to me i mean a living in a situation of 4 since i was bored we have been going through catastrophes at least since 1948 since the on the palestinian network and and we are living there and this is our daily life you've spoken to a lot of people when it comes to research have you discovered anything about the human spirit about survival about dealing with catastrophe about dealing with the

worst of times you know if if you if you read my books many of them in for example the last book published. which is a trilogy i published to 2 of the fit in the children of the year 2 is about how people. with the instinct of life. westering 2 of the very come. at the sort of peace and iteration. because. the most important think thing in life is life itself there's nothing more important more precious than life and so human beings when they are faced with. a threat to the way that people are threatened in wars and yet that's really. the instinct of life. recreates that invents them and

gives them the ability to work to to live and to reinvent. well you say you terrible. explosion happened in beirut and. we went out of this place. trying to find to go to the hospital and where you find hundreds of people. running in the streets of beirut with with bleeding and you feel that this is the end of the world but practically the next day you discovered. they were running. not from life but they were running towards they were running in order to defend in the aftermath of the explosion i want to get to the human psyche of how you see the situation now how would you write it what kind of characters would you put it you know you you use live in this is a very personal situation for you what has happened to barrett what's happened to lebanon for all of the lebanese how would you patrol the characters you know would

there be energy or would there be something that is broken sometime since the beginning of the civil war $975.00. who went through. destruction and reconstruction and the destruction as if there is a cycle of destruction maybe this time this is the ultimate destruction the most. savage the most brutal the biggest. thing that happened in the city even you know in $92.00 in in august the 6th and i think to beirut was bombed for about 17 hours where these really be replaced during these really bitter . nothing of all this cannot be compared to the explosions took place in the port this is what happened in the port was something like the ultimate more i'm not i don't want to compare of course hiroshima was a much more tragic. situation but if you were to compare hiroshima with the end of

world. we're not sure that this explosion is the end of anything. we have the feeling that this explosion is part of a process of continuous the seduction and in this sense people. out there how the people feel or feel that i feel that. this diary. there is something broken yourselves. and because there is no perspective. it's not the end of anything it's not the beginning of i think one of the of the major. of the major signs of the city is that. since the the 15th. of just searching it has been near the city of culture and much of the debate is culture only toward the city of the

other culture and it was the city of open and stewards of modernism 2 words change 2 words a new new style of a new approaches and this is very this make this me somebody who. does away when you look at the neighborhoods are destroyed you feel so sad for these now at this moment in a sense. after the war. these neighborhoods are no big neighborhoods of art or the go to the art of the. cultural activities to be explicit there so my feeling that this exposure is an attempt to clear this pretty obvious. never referred overthe bit. to the way that this now. for men. on.

earth will. the lebanese philosopher. put on once wrote out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars. this is a city and a people that have been deeply wounded. serve . on will learn of this song was sung by fight it was during the civil war which destroyed much of the capital the words just as important today as they were that. be taught from the depths of my heart i

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