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Arts of the Arab World in DC
Arab arts will be on display in Washington, DC next year. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is producing a three-week festival called "Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World."
The festival will show arts and performances from 22 Arab nations and will be the biggest show of Arab art in the United States. It will focus on the diversity of Arab culture. There will be dancers from Lebanon who dance a mixture of oriental and western dances. A group from Algeria will do hip-hop dancing. A Tunisian belly dancer will perform, and so will a group from Syria called Whirling Dervishes who dance by spinning around.
There will also be American dancers with Arab dancers from the country of Oman. Musicians will give concerts and actors will put on plays. Stand-up comedians will provide an evening of laughs and movie buffs can watch a week of Arab films.
The Kennedy Center is having the festival because it believes that it's important for Americans to understand more about Arab people and culture.
Congress and President Eisenhower had the Kennedy Center built 50 years ago and called it the National Cultural Center. In 1963, it was renamed in honor of President Kennedy, a few months after he was assassinated.
I'm Isaac and that's what happened in the arts this week.
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