Cultural Diplomacy

A 57-member China Disabled Arts group – UNESCO Artists for Peace, arrive in Ghana on 18th April, 2011 for a 3-day official visit to the country. The visit to the country is in furtherance of the bilateral cultural agreement signed between the Republic of China and Ghana in the field of Cultural exchange, promotion and development.

April 7, 2011

Four Israeli master chefs from different ethnic and religious backgrounds cook up a variety of ways to make beautiful cuisine together. Taste of Peace (Taam Salaam in Arabic and Taam Shalom in Hebrew) was founded in 2009 by a multiethnic corps of chefs...Their first event was a "coexistence cooking competition" where 10 Jewish and 10 Arab chefs paired off to cook dishes together without knowing the recipe.

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy was pleased to host CPD Research Fellow (2009-11), Ambassador Cynthia Schneider. Ambassador Schneider spoke about her assessment of the impact of arts, culture, and media in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

This sprawl of 20 million people has been dubbed the “monstruo” and slandered as an urban disaster for its chaotic slums, murderous gridlock and mountain smog. But less touted is how La Capital is a paradise for bohemian Americans and Europeans, hub of fashion designers and driving force of Latin American youth culture

"Persian Visions: Contemporary Photography from Iran," featuring 58 works of photography and video by 20 Iranian photographers, is one-half of a cultural exchange with a gallery at the University of Minnesota, and already has toured the states extensively, even during times when official U.S. relations with Iran were at their worst.

Forget the kimchi, the bulgogi and the colourful silk dresses: the Marianopolis Korean Club is washing clichés away on Saturday and replacing them with South Korean popular culture - better known as K-pop - at a showcase revue that includes Korean singing, rapping and dance performances. The event is called Hallyu3: The Trend.

In Pakistan, radical clerics have unleashed a religious fervor that is chilling secular voices and diminishing free speech...We sat down with two flourishing female musicians from Lahore for their insights into making music in the time of extremism. Singer Zeb Bangash and guitarist Haniya Aslam have chosen to write songs that are the antithesis of turmoil.

The return of cricket diplomacy raises an intriguing question: How can India use its considerable soft power—its dominance of South Asian sport, movies, music, television and publishing—to address the rise of Islamist fundamentalism in Pakistan?

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