The Globe Gallery was on the front page of the B&R today, with a crowd of young people from Bahrain, the Lebanon, United Arab Emirates and Oman posed in front of it. They've been in the area for a few days as the return visit of an exchange trip that sent young people from a deprived part of the East End to the Middle East. The whole thing was set up by an organisation called Offscreen, and last year a chap from Offscreen came to talk to the Timbuktu twinning committee to see if it would be feasable to set up an exchange visit between Hay and Timbuktu.
Anne Brichto is quoted in the article, saying: "the visit allowed our children to see Muslim people in a positive light as most of our kids have very little contact with Muslims and these visits show Muslims are not all suicide terrorists."
Which can only be a good thing.
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