April, 1998:
* Special Events:
- The annual children's arts festival, Nuwwar Nissane, organized by the Tamer Institute in cooperation with the Popular Arts Center, was held this year under the theme of the 50th anniversary of the Nakba. Along the regular activities of acting, singing, crafts, etc.. Children participated in the building of a model Palestinian village like the ones demolished in the Nakba by Israel, and in which all the Festivals events were held.
* Visual Arts:
- Bir Zeit University hosted the companion exhibit to the Sakakini Marwan show, showcasing the works they received, in addition to works painted by Architecture students, inspired by Marwans works..
- In Ramallah, the Ziryab gallery & Café
hosted the Jerusalem Wasiti exhibit, Signs, featuring new works
of Suleiman Mansour, Taysir Sharaf, Taleb Dweik, Hussni Radwan and Khaled
Hourani.
* Music:
- The Oriental Music Ensemble of the National Conservatory of Music gave a series of concerts of classic works in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and El-Bireh.
- The young London-based Palestinian pianist Salim Abboud gave a piano recital in Jerusalem. The occasion was the inauguration of the new grand piano of the National Conservatory. He was accompanied by German clarinetist Bettina Pohl, in a program of Chopin, Schubert and Liszt.
- 'Oud player Samir Jubran gave a recital of the same program as his January concert at the Sakakini, in Jerusalem.
- US Violist and member of the London Symphonic Orchestra, Peter Sulski, returned to Palestine to teach at the Conservatory, and gave a series of concerts with faculty and superior students, in Bethlehem, Ramallah, and Jerusalem. The program included Mozarts piano quarter in G Minor, and a Brahms piano quartet in G minor.
* Literature:
Two new poetry collections were published by the Ministry of Culture Presses: Prominent poet Hussein Barghoutis: Youjad Alfadh Awhach min Hadhih, There are Words Worse Than These, and Rose Chomalis first opus: Linnahr Majra Ghayr Dhatuh, The River has another course.