MINYA Hydro Flask Coffee Pas Cher , Egypt, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- In a conservative and narrow-minded society where dancing is not an acceptable or a preferable form of art, a group of young people challenged the customs and traditions and launched the first ballet school in Upper Egypt.
Alwanat School of Ballet and Fine Arts, the first of its kind in Upper Egypt, opened in the center of Minya province, some 220 km away from Cairo.
""The name Alwanat Hydro Flask 10 OZ Wine Tumbler Pas Cher , Arabic for 'colors', signals the diversity of people and programs we offer,"" Marco Adel, the founder of the school, told Xinhua.
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Upper Egyptians are always depicted in novels and movies as tough, conservative and narrow-minded people on matters of arts and freedom of females.
""Our main problems are finance and the society's rejection of this kind of art,"" Adel mentioned.
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""I was so happy when I read about the school on Facebook,"" said Noha Mohamed.
""My daughter, Gigi, was imitating the movements of a ballet dancer on TV, and I feel she will be a professional dancer in the future,"" she said.
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""It's a positive initiative to change the way of thinking and to open a new gate for girls to enjoy arts,"" Nisreen Nabil, another mother told Xinhua, noting that it is a matter of daring to dream and to change.
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Ten-year-old Sarah Amr was enthusiastic while training with her beautiful black costume. ""I adore dancing; it's the dream of my life to be a famous ballet dancer.""
""I always ask my mother to take me to the Opera Ballet show when we visit our relatives in Cairo, and Alwanat School finally came to change my province's outlook and the way of thinking about arts,"" she said.
Alwanat initiative is a non-governmental self-funded organization set up in 2014. It seeks to promote the belief that every person has the right to taste different types of arts and engage in various cultural experiences to build a more open and intellectual personality.
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The school currently has about 150 students, most of who are girls who are four to 20 years old, Adel added.
The school's fees are affordable and the only criterion for selection of student is a fitness test.
""I believe that Upper Egypt is a very good place to start spreading this art,"" Adel said.
Adel and his team are dreaming of opening more schools and widening the awareness on ballet dancing.
""We are currently visiting rural villages to discover new talents and working on a film festival, hoping one day we could gain international recognition,"" he said.
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At issue was how much Samsung is required to compensate Apple under an 1887 law that requires patent infringers to pay "total profit." Apple said that means all the profits from the phone sales, while Samsung argued it was limited to profits related to the specific components that were copied.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for the court that the law does not require damages to be based on the entire product, but can be limited to only a component of the product. The decision overturned a ruling from a federal appeals court in Washington, which said that Apple was entitled to all the profits.
But the high court declined to lay out a specific test for how such damage awards should be calculated. Sotomayor said doing so was not necessary and the justices left it up to lower courts to resolve.
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