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Telling a story of Gaza without preaching it
Olivia Snaije, The Daily Star, Aug 27, 2008

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"We do know what's going on in the world," a Palestinian character cracks to his London audience. "It's just the rest of the world that doesn't know what's going on here." Sometimes culture can succeed where politics fail. A year after being anointed the Quartet's Middle East envoy, Tony Blair has still not crossed the border into Gaza but Shelley Silas' new play "Eating Ice-cream on Gaza Beach" tries to bring something of Palestine to the British capital. [Read the full article]

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