palestinian violinist brings music to young refugees
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Palestinian violinist brings music to young refugees

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As a boy, Ramzi Aburedwan found himself caught up in the first Palestinian uprising, a well-known photo at the time showing him holding stones to throw at Israeli soldiers.
He has since become a respected musician and composer, who gives back to children from Palestinian refugee camps, like himself.
Today, he provides musical training to around 2,000 of them through his project Al-Kamandjati, or The Violinist.
Aburedwan, now 38 and who grew up in Al-Amari camp in the occupied West Bank’s Ramallah area, says he hopes to create a “strong future generation capable of expressing itself” through such projects.
He launched Al-Kamandjati in 2002, wanting to offer youngsters from the camps and other poor children access to expensive musical instruments and music theory classes.
The violinist, who studied music in Angers in western France, began by collecting instruments donated by various institutions across Europe.
On his return to Ramallah, he extended the project in 2008 to Beirut’s Shatila refugee camp as well as the Bourj Al-Barajneh camp in Lebanon.
Aburedwan’s project now counts eight music schools and more than 2,000 students aged between 5 and 18. In March, Palestinian officials named him cultural figure of the year.
The composer, with a neatly trimmed beard, thinks back with pride to the old photo of himself as a child in a red jacket with stones in hand, taken in 1988.
At the time, “we had to protect our camp from the soldiers,” he said of Al-Amari, one of the refugee camps set up to house Palestinians displaced by the creation of Israel in 1948.
With another mass exodus caused by the Six-Day War of 1967, almost 8 million Palestinians are considered refugees, with most of them living in camps across the Middle East.
The future is bleak for many who grow up in poverty, and that could have been the case for Aburedwan had fortune not smiled upon him.
As a teenager, he worked odd jobs to earn money where he could, hawking newspapers and doing gardening work for families in Ramallah.
One of the women who hired him “heard something about a scholarship to learn music in France,” he said.
“She proposed my name and I landed in France, where I learned music before starting Al-Kamandjati,” said Aburedwan.
Recently, a group of music students from the Qalandia refugee camp, north of Jerusalem, were training along with musicians teaching violin and cello as part of Aburedwan’s program.

Source: Arab News

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