I was in Cairo for my first Egyptian concert," Rima Khcheich smiles. "I was preparing an Umm Kalthoum song, a dour [a classical vocal form without improvisation] called 'Dour Emta al-Hawa.' Two days before the concert I met [iconic Egyptian
Joanna's new large-sized paintings (from 2 feet x5 feet to 6 feet x 5 feet), done in mixed media on linen, examine the theme "Landscape Under Fire." What really transpires from the images way surpasses a mere landscape...
Powerful and heavily built men are usually assigned to get a hold of any girl in the village that has reached puberty and is almost ripe for marriage before tying her hands and legs with ropes. The Tonga tribesmen then