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SUDAN - ARAB LEAGUE
Arab League to back Sudanese President
Arab League nations held a crisis conference to establish a common strategy after the International Criminal Court's prosecutor requested the indictment of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, accused of war crimes in the Darfur region.
MUSIC
Classical Arab music meets jazz
Mixing jazz music with familiar classics from the Syrian and Armenian songbooks in a genre they call “Oriental Jazz,” Lena Chamamyan and Basel Rajoub are exploring new areas in music – with the Internet's help.
SYRIA - ARAB SUMMIT
Summit ends with no consensus on Lebanon
The Arab League summit in Damascus closed Sunday with a declaration to help Lebanon emerge from its current political crisis, but without any specific proposals on how to achieve it.
19/03/2008 - THE FRANCE 24 INTERVIEW

Sayed Kashua, Arab-Israeli author

Andrea Sanke interviews Sayed Kashua, the only Arab-Israeli writer among the group of authors chosen to represent Israel at this years Paris Book Fair.
LEBANON - SYRIA
Syria invites Siniora to Arab summit
Syria finally invited Lebanon's prime minister Fouad Siniora to the Arab summit in Damascus this month. But there are doubts as to whether he will accept the invitation.
PARIS BOOK FAIR
Arabs divided over Book Fair boycott
Critical of the choice of Israel as guest of honour, a number of Arab publishers and writers plan to boycott the 28th annual Paris Book Fair, held from March 14 to 19.
ISRAEL - TELEVISION

Arab-Israeli family sitcom hits the screen

Channel Two, Israel's most-watched network, is broadcasting on prime time and mostly in Arabic a sitcom based on the trials and tribulations of an Arab-Israeli family. (Report: M.de Chalvron)
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