Palestine Youth Orchestra Goes On European Tour

Barghouti kept repeating that she came every week, but the soldier was intransigent.In tears, Barghouti called her father, who came to collect her. He asked if she wanted to go home, or to try another route to get to Jerusalem.”I said, ‘no, I’m not going home, because that’s what they want’,” Barghouti recalls. “Even now, it means a lot to me to go to my music lessons. It’s my right. And in Palestine, art has become a privilege, not a right.”