Syrian pianist who played for refugees to perform in Barcelona
Tuesday, February 28, 2017 @ 10:39 PM
A PIANIST who played for refugees in a camp in Syria nearly two years ago will stage two concerts in Barcelona this week.
Aeham Ahmad, 29, from the Syrian capital of Damasco kept his displaced compatriots entertained through their ordeal as they hid out in inhuman conditions in a refugee camp in Yarmouk, a few kiilometres from his home city, in April 2015 – until Jihad terrorists set fire to his piano.
Now, thanks to strings pulled by organisers of the International María Canals Music Contest and the Catalunya Peace Association, Aeham will play for audiences in Barcelona on Friday and Sunday, in a move aimed at sending out a message of hope to refugees and calling for help and awareness from the European public.
Aeham, whose videos of him playing in empty streets and the ruins of buildings to symbolise the horrors of the Syrian civil war went viral on social networks, is a refugee himself – the self-styled 'Islamic State', or DAESH, occupied 90% of the territory where the camp was based, forcing him and those living there to flee for their lives.
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