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CairoScene
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CairoScene
Utrecht's Le Guess Who? Festival Announces First Wave Line-Up
Featured on the bill are over 100 regional and international artists such as Fatima Al Qadiri, Saint Abdullah and Dirar Kalash. May 29, 2025 Utrecht's Le Guess Who? Festival, renowned as one of the most forward-thinking festivals dedicated to spotlighting global creativity, has recently revealed the first wave lineup and guest curators for its 2025 edition. Taking place from November 6th to November 9th, this year's Le Guess Who? will bring six trailblazing guest curators and a massive lineup of over 100 regional and international artists to perform across 20 venues in the heart of the Dutch city. American-Indian musician, activist and community organizer Amirtha Kidambi curated a subversive music program that showcases her interpretation of 'Outernationalism' – a concept introduced by the late composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. Joining her is South African drummer and percussionist Asher Gamedze with a curated program celebrating the vibrant progressive music scene of Cape Town. Berlin-based Colombian DJ/producer and curator Edna Martinez will also be bringing the world of PICÓ to the festival's stage, offering a glimpse into the sound system culture of Colombia's Caribbean coast. Guest curators also include Gyrofield, a rising producer hailing from Hong Kong, multi-hyphenated musician and visual artist Lonnie Holley, China's own visionary contemporary artist Tianzhuo Chen, along with British-Italian experimental drummer and composer Valentina Magaletti and Berlin's producer and musician Ziúr, who are curating a joint program together. The main lineup for Le Guess Who? features Senegalese-born Kuwaiti musician and conceptual artist Fatima Al Qadiri, Palestinian sound artists Dirar Kalash, Iranian-Canadian duo Saint Abdullah, and Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali Ensemble (nephews of qawwali master Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan). Nicolas Jaar is also joining the bill again this edition, presenting a collaborative project with Pakistani-American artist Ali Sethi. A limited number of discounted four-day festival passes, as well as individual day passes for Le Guess Who? 2025, are now available for purchase at the official Le Guess Who? website.
Yahoo
14-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Monday's Mini-Report, 4.14.25
Today's edition of quick hits. * Fortunately, a suspect was identified and apprehended quickly: 'A man is facing charges after allegedly jumping an iron fence into Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's official residence in Harrisburg early Sunday, breaking into his home, and starting multiple fires with Molotov cocktails while the family was inside, officials said.' * Good for Harvard: 'Harvard University will 'not accept' demands made by President Donald Trump's administration amid threats of funding cuts, according to a statement issued Monday.' * One of the deadliest single attacks on Ukraine this year: 'A Russian ballistic missile strike killed at least 31 people and injured more than 80 others in the Ukrainian city of Sumy on Sunday, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, marking one of the deadliest single attacks on the country this year.' * In Budapest: 'Hungary's parliament on Monday passed an amendment to the constitution that allows the government to ban public events by LGBTQ communities, a decision that legal scholars and critics call another step toward authoritarianism by the populist government.' * No good will come of this: 'U.S. DOGE Service employees have inserted themselves into the government's long-established process to alert the public about potential federal grants and allow organizations to apply for funds, according to four people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a sensitive situation.' * Will those who cared about Jade Helm care about this? 'President Trump authorized the U.S. military to take jurisdiction over a strip of public land at the border that spans three states, a key step toward having U.S. troops play a larger role enforcing immigration laws at the southern border. In a presidential memorandum released Friday evening, Trump ordered the Defense Department to have authority over the Roosevelt Reservation, among other public lands. American-Indian reservations are exempt from the order.' * There's no good reason to end these protections: The Trump administration will end temporary protections for more than 10,000 people from Afghanistan and Cameroon, putting them on track for deportation in May and June, Department of Homeland Security officials said on Friday. Many of the Afghans affected by the decision had been allowed into the United States after the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from their country in 2021. Now, the Trump administration could send them back to a country under Taliban rule.' * An official with a past related to Jan. 6: 'Pete Marocco, a State Department official who oversaw the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has left the agency after less than three months, according to a senior Trump administration official.' * The Supreme Court protected affirmative action in the military, but here we are: 'The Air Force Academy has stopped taking the race, gender or ethnicity of applicants into consideration, the Justice Department stated in a filing Friday responding to a lawsuit that accused the institution of discrimination for making class diversity a factor in its admissions process.' See you tomorrow. This article was originally published on
Wall Street Journal
12-04-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Trump Authorizes Pentagon to Take Over Public Land at Southern Border
WASHINGTON—President Trump authorized the U.S. military to take jurisdiction over a strip of public land at the border that spans three states, a key step toward having U.S. troops play a larger role enforcing immigration laws at the southern border. In a presidential memorandum released Friday evening, Trump ordered the Defense Department to have authority over the Roosevelt Reservation, among other public lands. American-Indian reservations are exempt from the order.
Associated Press
11-03-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
TTEC Announces Career Opportunities In India For Americans In Customer Service
TTEC, a leading customer experience technology and services company which is headquartered in the US, is now seeking American customer service specialists who are currently based in India. Greenwood Village, United States, March 10, 2025 -- TTEC is now recruiting for American customer service professionals to join their expanding business hub in India. As one of the world's largest international customer experience (CX) businesses, TTEC believes they can offer successful applicants the opportunity to grow significantly across the American-Indian market. More information is available at The customer experience technology and services company is now recruiting specifically for a raft of customer service representatives and team leads across the health, technology, travel and financial sectors, among others. For those more experienced customer service specialists, they are also seeking talented American managers, analysts and consultants with experience in both customer service and service delivery, learning and development, database management or training. Although TTEC is dedicated to customer experience, they believe that their clients' experiences start with their employees. This is why they are driven to be a leader in employer value propositions (EVPs), and in addition to offering American customer service specialists in India the opportunity to enrich and grow their career, they can also offer them more holistic growth opportunities. TTEC has a vast in-house training system and connections to esteemed course providers worldwide and they take pride in helping their employees to develop and extend their professional and personal skills. Because they put their employees first, they are also focused on employee well-being and new employees will benefit from their sponsored health and wellness activities, their flexible work conditions, including hybrid work provisions, and their emphasis on team culture. These initiatives have led TTEC to be certified as a Great Place to Work® and as the winner of HR Asia's Best Company to Work for. As an international, US-based company, TTEC can also offer competitive salaries and full salary packages with generous additional benefits. TTEC currently has multiple offices in India, including in Mumbai, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad, and they encourage Americans who are currently living and working in the country to ask about relocation options and benefits. One happy current employee said, 'I really appreciate the culture of collaboration and support at TTEC. It both challenges me to evolve and shows me the progress I am making on an ongoing basis. It is great to be in evolution constantly, but best of all to be recognized for it.' She added, 'Another reason I like working for TTEC is the fun we have. Because TTEC has a very different company environment, it makes our day-to-day work much more pleasant and satisfying.' For more information, visit Contact Info: Name: TTEC Support Email: Send Email Organization: TTEC
Express Tribune
20-02-2025
- Business
- Express Tribune
Rekindling the Indo-US bromance
The writer is an academic and researcher. He is also the author of Development, Poverty, and Power in Pakistan, available from Routledge Listen to article Prime Minister Modi was the fourth world leader to visit the White House this past week, after President Trump's landslide victory in the recent American elections. South Asia watchers paid close attention to whether the leaders of the largest democracies in the world would be able to rekindle their bilateral relationship amidst the currently chaotic and fast-evolving geostrategic landscape, which is now being reshaped by a more transactional and punitive American approach to foreign policy. The American imperative to forge closer strategic ties with India to gain more access to its burgeoning market, and to offset growing Chinese influence in Asia, has seen American Presidents including Obama, Trump and Biden repeatedly roll out the red carpet for Modi, who has now been in power for three consecutive terms. Modi managed to develop a special bond with Trump 1.0 - described as a budding 'bromance'. Trump has used his personal connection with Modi to woo the American-Indian vote. Modi, on the other hand, also got an image boost due to his "special relationship" with the president of the most powerful county in the world. Modi and Trump have much in common. They have both harnessed majoritarian sentiments to assume power, and they both represent powerful vested interests which bet on big business to deliver top-down growth. President Trump made no waves when he went to India in 2020 amidst the harsh crackdown on protests against anti-Muslim citizenship legislation enacted under Modi's previous tenure. And the majoritarian ideology of the BJP is not something that will prevent the two countries deepening their strategic embrace this time around either. During their interaction with the press, Modi said he wants to make 'India great again' (MiGA), and in partnering with Trump's efforts to 'Make America great again' (MAGA), he called for a 'mega-partnership' between their two nations. However, the deportation of Indian illegal migrants, and the US decision to impose reciprocal tariffs on India remained major issues for the two leaders to contend with during their latest meeting. While Modi was quick to agree to taking back Indian deportees from America, he did try to push back against Trump's plans to use punitive trade measures against India. Trump does seem willing to renegotiate trade terms, if it can lessen the bilateral trade deficit, which is currently in India's favour. Trump wants to increase US energy exports to India and ramp up defence cooperation, which could also pave the way for India buying the exorbitantly priced advanced F-35 fighter jets. Like his predecessor, Trump also wants to create parallel infrastructure to rival China's BRI. He wants to work closely with India to make major investments in ports, railways and undersea cables running from India to Israel and Europe and beyond which would be "one of the greatest trade routes in all of history". Whether Trump and Modi will be able to boost regional connectivity to outdo BRI investments remains to be seen. China's growing global footprint has already seen smaller South Asian states struggle to maximise national benefits by oscillating between bolstering ties with China and India. Pakistan, however, is much more uneasy about India's growing relations with the US, at a time when its own bilateral relations with the US have withered. The US is unlikely to want to make significant investments in Pakistan, especially now that the US is no longer in Afghanistan, and is suspicious of Pakistan's increased reliance on China. Pakistan could provide the US a less confrontational arena for great power collaboration, which would be an alternative pathway for contending with Chinese influence in South Asia, rather than trying to prop up India as a regional bulwark against China. However, given the lack of efforts on the part of Pakistan to create opportunities for the US to work with China in Pakistan, we are likely to see the US tighten its strategic embrace of India under Trump, which may compel Pakistan to increase its reliance on China.
