pbs’ newshour are covering the arabesque festival at washington’s kennedy’s center. there’s a good (but un-embeddable) video segment featuring azza fehmy, karima mansour and lara baladi.

also featured in other segments are sulayman al-bassam, marcel khalife and roger mandle of the qatar museums authority.

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