Category: Prize 2013

Laudatory speech to Rim Banna at her receiving of the Ibn Rushd Award 2013 by Erik Hillestad, music producer and lyricist, Norway My meeting with Rim I met Rim Banna 11 years ago. In 2002, I was travelling in Palestine. The world was apparently about to reach a new level in antagonism between the East […]

Members of the Jury of Ibn Rushd Prize 2013 Lotfi Bouchnak Lotfi Bouchnak, born 1952 in Tunis to a family of Turkish-Bosnian origin, is a Tunisian singer, oud player, composer and public figure. He is considered one of the best tenors in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Arab world and has been dubbed […]

Rim Banna Rim Banna, a Palestinian singer-song writer, composer, arranger and activist, was born in Nazareth, Galilee, on December 8, 1966. During her studies at at the Gnesins’ Academy of Music in Moscow she specialized in modern singing and conducting singing groups. She graduated in 1991. Rim Banna is known for her modern interpretations of […]

Call for Nomination The Ibn Rushd Prize 2013 is calling for a singer, songwriter, or band whose songs deal with the quest for freedom, civil rights, and democracy, and call for implementing these. Freedom and democracy, the right for a life of dignity and security – these are values an increasing number of states, also […]