“Classic Dutch” is a panorama of classical music, composed or performed in the Netherlands through the centuries. Most of the music in this series was selected from among the huge […]
Yearly Archives: 2004
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It was a favourite of the Nazi Party; it was adopted by Communists to celebrate Marx’s ideals; it was played at the fall of the Berlin Wall to celebrate the […]
Lindy hop is back! Amsterdam has rediscovered the American feel-good dance. Hundreds of enthusiastic hoppers recently enjoyed a weekend full of workshops, master classes and parties with special guest star, […]
Our reporter goes to the border between Guatemala and Mexico to observe the realities of illegal immigration from Guatemala and other Central American countries to El Norte. People need to […]
Since the outbreak of the second Palestinian uprising in the autumn of 2000, Palestinians’ freedom of movement has been severely limited. Throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip, checkpoints and […]
It has been used to advertise coffee and perfume, to rouse the spirit at football games and even been hijacked for house music and rap. The Carmina Burana does indeed […]
The Netherlands now has more than one million Muslims in an overall population of 17 million. Issues like the banning of the veil for women in schools, debates on female […]
When the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who had made such a deep impact on developments in the Middle East for a generation, died in November 2004, Palestinians and many others […]