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A UK-based Swedish multibillionaire family known for their philanthropic donations to literature, libraries and other arts, have become the target of angry protests in Berlin over the eviction of a community bookshop from a counter-culture neighbourhood.
The bookseller Kisch & Co, which has operated for the last 24 years from a historic building on one of the main thoroughfares in the Kreuzberg district of Germany’s capital, was told on Thursday by a criminal court to vacate its premises.
The building’s owners were represented via video link in court by a Frankfurt-based law firm, which in turn was acting on behalf of the Luxembourg-registered Victoria Immo Properties V SARL, which bought the property for more than €35m in 2019.
The Palestinian Museum launches phase two of its Digital Archive project to include more than 360,000 items 21/April/2021 04:19 PM
The Palestinian Museum launches phase two of its Digital Archive project to include more than 360,000 items
Photo from the Palestine Museum.
BIRZEIT, Wednesday, April 21, 2021 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Museum announced the launch of phase two of its Digital Archive project (PMDA), which will continue for three years as of March 2021 and when complete, the archive will include more than 360,000 freely-available items, according to a press release.
During phase two, the project will widen its reach, gathering Palestinian archives from families and institutions, and from diaspora Palestinians in Jordan and Lebanon. The aim is to digitize and publish 180,000 archival items that shed light on different aspects of Palestinian social history from the 1800s to the present day.
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