Helena Merriman
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard 6d ago
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Lined up before the match, the players from the South Korean men's hockey team looked around in confusion as the wrong anthem rang out around the arena, while others, not realizing what had happened, kept a hand on their chest.
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The stadium announcer was quick to apologize for the mistake.
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This comes off the back of an earlier incident in the Asian games, where a Japanese warlord, Toyotomi Deyoshi, was featured during a welcoming ceremony in Nagoya.
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This prompted South Korea's Olympic Committee to file a complaint with the organizers, Azideyoshi's invasions of Korea in the sixteenth century remain a sensitive chapter for Seoul.
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But these are just the latest of a number of controversies emerging from this year's Asian Games, where organizers have sought to cut costs by ditching the traditional athletes' village.
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Instead, some seventeen thousand competitors and officials are being housed in alternative accommodations, including an Italian cruise ship and shipping container style cabins.
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This has led to massive delays and chaos for the teams arriving from all
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All over Asia, with players experiencing grueling weights upon arrival and some being forced to sleep on the floor while their rooms were being prepared.
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Basketball players also voiced their discomfort, with athletes over two meters tall complaining that their beds were not big enough to accommodate them.
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He was born in the village of Brazet in British Mandate Palestine in nineteen forty-seven, a year before the State of Israel was established and a year before the first Arab Israeli war took place, during which more than seven hundred thousand Palestinians were expelled from their homes in what is known as the Nakbah, meaning the catastrophe or disaster in Arabic.
And Monsur spent most of his career
Documenting the life of Palestinian people, using olive groves and citrus trees and traditional embroidered dresses and other vibrant imagery to bring his paintings to life.
But above all, people will remember his art as a symbol of Palestinian resistance under the Israeli military occupation.
And one of the most enduring and striking images to come out of his body of work is
A painting from 1973 called The Camel of Hardship, which depicts an elderly Palestinian man carrying the city of Jerusalem on his back, the weight of it heavy on his body, which looks wary but perseveres ahead despite the burden.
And during the first Antifida or uprising, which began in 1987, Munsur helped found the new vision.
in collective with fellow artists, turning to mud, straw, wood, and other natural elements after Palestinian artists boycotted Israeli made supplies.
And this marked a change in his career, a shift to a darker art, if you will, which is something he discussed in twenty eighteen while speaking to the BBC's Stephen Sacker.
And an example of this shift study he just spoke about can be found in his nineteen ninety six piece titled The Shrinking Object, which features a map of Palestine.
built completely out of mud.
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