March 21st to March 24th 2008

MERZOUGA – MOROCCO

About the event …

Set on the majestic dunes of the sahara in south Morocco, Transahara will once again bring together the aficionados of a unique musical and visual journey.

More than twenty electronic music composers and talented international DJs will make you vibrate on the golden dunes of erg Chebbi in the enchanting area of Merzouga.

Transahara is an international and artistic event inspired by the breathtaking silence of the desert, a perfect place for deep introspections and surrealistic encounters.

Far from the suffocating and shady noise pollutions and vibes of the stressed modern cities, the desert offers an invigorating open horizon. Its perfect acoustic calls for music to be played without any obstruction nor distortion…Until we become part of the desert’s mystical dunes…

In each of our events we have produced in the desert, more than 200 people deeply enjoyed a unique dance and chill event. We invite you to join us for the next transahara edition…where dunes can dance.. .

Music and Art :

65 hours non stop music: from March 21st @ 11:00 PM to March 24th @ 6:00 PM

MAIN STAGE :

Tegma – Tribal Vision Records – Sweden
Whicked Hayo – Night Oracle Records – Belgium
Dj Rodrigue – France
Slater – Tribal vision records – Czech Republic
Psyberpunk- Psyberpunk.ch – Shaman Electro Rec Switzerland
Argonautes – psyberpunk tribe – Switzerland
Simon Baring – Twisted Records – UK
Diali – Morocco
DeepR – Nomadstribe – Morocco
Adm – Morocco
Daox – Morocco
Display Live! – Morocco
Edthepilot – OneRedEye Productions – UK Doog – France
G2 aka Bustrance – Oreadjs – France
Kaa – Tribal vision records – France
Chucky – Portugal
Garo – Etnicanet – Italy
Essam – Global underground – New York
Miko – Relic Recordings – Canada DJ Moudy – Lebanon

VISUALS & VJS:
Vegeta – Morocco
Navaginsha – Morocco
Yasmin – Morocco

CHILL OUT:

Bustrance – Oreadjs – France
Argo – Psyberpunk.ch – Switzerland
Space Tunnel – nomadstribe – Morocco
Sally_d – Greece
Siam Factors – Oreadjs – France

and many more to be announced soon…..

 

JERUSALEM – Israel’s 84-year-old president has a novel idea on how to battle anti-Semitism: Facebook.

Shimon Peres told a group of international students on Tuesday at Israel’s Holocaust memorial that the popular social networking site was an effective means to counter the spread of hate and incitement on the Internet.

“Anti-Semitism is a disease of everyone. Persecuting minorities, discrimination, xenophobia and violence exist in many countries in the world,” he told a group representing more than 60 countries, who gathered at Yad Vashem for an international youth conference about the Holocaust. “You have the opportunity to teach your friends about the memory of the Holocaust so that these horrors will never be forgotten and will never be repeated.”

When asked by one of the youths what each of them could do, Peres replied: “Who here has heard about Facebook?” Nearly all in attendance raised their hands.

“You can fight anti-Semitism using social networks, like Facebook,” he continued.

Peres spokeswomen Ayelet Frisch said that Peres met last week with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Peres, who spearheaded the establishment of Israel’s cutting edge aerial industry and introduced computers into its military, has long been an active supporter of high-tech ventures.

He is currently behind an initiative to install the world’s first electric car network in Israel. He also maintains an active Web site and has a blog on the Web site of the Israeli daily Haaretz.

Peres does not have a Facebook profile, but Frisch said he is considering doing it.

JERUSALEM – Israelis and Palestinians have taken their conflict to Facebook.

Members of the social networking craze who are Jewish settlers living in the West Bank were incensed to discover that they had to choose “Palestine” as the state, not Israel, when filling out the address section of their profile pages.

For the Palestinian residents of the territory, it only made sense that their state would be listed as Palestine. Palestinians hope that the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem will make up a Palestinian state as the result of peace negotiations now underway.

But Jewish settlers hope the land, which many believe was given to the Jews by God, will remain under Israeli control, rejecting their own government’s policy favoring creation of a Palestinian state.

Following an Israeli campaign, the online hangout decided to allow residents of some Jewish settlements the option of listing Israel or Palestine, settlers said.

Facebook Inc. did not immediately respond to an e-mail requesting comment.

Channah Lerman, a Jewish settler who started a group to fight the cause, said Tuesday that Facebook was letting many settlers list their state as Israel.

“Slowly they have added a few bigger settlements to the list,” Lerman wrote in a message. “But the bottom line is that the majority of settlements are not (yet) listed.”

Some Jewish settlers were upset that Palestine is even an option for them.

“I am still not happy about Palestine being listed as a country of residence on Facebook (or any other site for that matter),” Facebook member Ahuvah Berger wrote on a discussion of a group formed to fight for the cause. “But at least Facebook understood and respected their users enough to give them options.”

Palestinians themselves had fought their own battle with Facebook. Originally, Palestinians could only choose West Bank or Gaza Strip as a country option, according to a group that organized to change the policy. Facebook has since agreed to make “Palestine” an option. But more than 200,000 Palestinians living in east Jerusalem are unable to list Palestine as their country.

Israel annexed east Jerusalem shortly after capturing it in the 1967 war, but Palestinians claim it as their capital.

“This is a very sensitive, complicated, and emotional issue for millions of Palestinians around the world,” wrote a group called “All Palestinians on Facebook” on its information page. “For you to interfere in such a political issue and (side) with one party in the conflict is simply outrageous.”

Some Arab citizens of Israel who would like to consider their towns still a part of Palestine — which the area was called until Israel was established in 1948 — are unable to list them as such on Facebook. Israeli Arabs comprise about 20 percent of Israel’s population.

Israeli and Palestinian groups on Facebook also openly strive to gain the most members, displaying their enrollment as the numbers grow into the thousands.