Saving Sarah: The last Jewish embroidery shop in India’s Kochi | Arts and Culture

Saving Sarah: The last Jewish embroidery shop in India’s Kochi | Arts and Culture

Kochi, India – A chance encounter when he was selling postcards to tourists in Jew Town as a 13-year-old in the early 1980s would change the course of Thaha Ibrahim’s life. Growing up in Mattancherry, a bustling hub of the spice trade in the southern Indian city of Cochin (now Kochi), Thaha Ibrahim had always … Read more

Young Kenyan ballet dancers stage early Christmas performance | Arts and Culture

Young Kenyan ballet dancers stage early Christmas performance | Arts and Culture

As the sun sets on the narrow streets of Africa’s largest informal settlement, children hurry to change from daily clothes into pointe shoes and other ballet gear. Fifteen-year-old Brenda Branice is among the dancers and can’t hide her joy. It’s time for the Christmas performance in Kibera, one of the busiest neighbourhoods of Kenya’s capital, … Read more

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