Culture

Battir Cultural Landscape has been awarded “The Melina Mercouri International Prize” for protection and management of cultural landscape on the West Bank. The project is a collaboration between UNESCO’s office in Ramallah, local government and Norway. Read more

The Festival of Førde and Talent 2008 have received the Unesco award «Young artist for intercultural dialogue between the Arab and Western worlds». The award is an honour to young artists for the work to promote dialogue through culture. Read more

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The Seminar started with the Premier performance of the play Nora "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen, on the evening of the International Women Day 8 March 2008.  On Sunday 9 March, the Norwegian MP, Ms. Inga Marte Thorkildsen gave a speech on Women in Politics in Norway and related to her personal experience serving 2nd term in the Parliament at the age of 31.  Mr. George Ibrahim, General Read more

The Norwegian Representative Office is pleased to announce that it has supported the reconstruction and renovation of the old cinema in Azzahra Street in East Jerusalem with USD 640 000. When completed by August 2008 the buliding will house the Yabous Cultural Centre with a cinema, café, concert hall, meeting rooms as well as music lessons for children. "East Jerusalem lacks cultural acitivites... Read more