CAIRO: Rock star Peter Gabriel rescheduled his festival of music
without frontiers from Egypt to Israel yesterday after Cairo cancelled
the concert. Womad (World of Music, Arts, and Dance), an agency founded
by Gabriel in 1982 to promote arts from around the world, was to have
presented a concert at the Red Sea resort of Taba on Saturday. Its aim
was to bring together Arab and Israeli fans to see Gabriel, former
Velvet Underground member Lou Reed, and other acts, but Egypt called off
the event because of security concerns. Gabriel's agents have instead
moved the concert to Eilat in Israel, where it will be held in a car
park at the port. Gabriel said some musicians would hold a small party
in Taba to make up for the change of plan and said: ''It's very
important for me personally and for us to try to support the peace
process in any way we can.''
* Israel and the Vatican established full diplomatic ties yesterday,
six months after they signed a historic deal on mutual recognition and
reconciliation to end centuries of bitterness between Roman Catholics
and Jews.
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