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Aksana Kavaliova-Moussi
Regional Liaison for Eastern Mediterranean
Contact: easternmediterranean@wfmt.info[/caption]
The winter is almost gone, and music therapists in the region are getting busier.
D. Cushenbery from Qatar reports:
“The music therapy department continues to promote and explain MT services to various groups touring the facility. Recently, the work of MT services at Shafallah was demonstrated to a number of visiting medical students. In January 2013, the Liverpool football team toured the music therapy department at the Shafallah Center. They also joined our adaptive music ensemble to play a couple songs, although I think our Fayrouz quote in the solo section of Justin Bieber's "Baby" may have lost them! The writing of midterm reports and IEPs in Arabic is becoming a bit easier. Lastly, MT services at the Shafallah Center has been exploring various clinical uses of iPads with the students as an adaptive instrument, to promote vocalizations, to assist in RAS gait training, and for various uses involving graphics and video.”
Marion Ritchie from Dubai again took a leading role in promoting music therapy in the UAE. She is commuting every week to Abu Dhabi doing a documentary on music therapy with two local teenagers with special needs. More on that on http://www.aflamnah.com/en/the-brain-that-sings/
The GIM Music Psychotherapy training, which was scheduled to take place in Bahrain at the beginning of February, has been postponed due to a very small number of people interested. The organizer is still hopeful to attract more attention to this event.
As a Regional Liaison, I am always searching for more music therapists in the region. Lately, I had been in contact with a Syrian musician, who opened the first music therapy clinic in Damascus a few years ago. However, due to the hard political situation in the country, this person had to move away and is now conducting workshops in Jordan and Lebanon.
There are traces of activities in Lebanon, Kuwait and Iran, and I hope soon to get more information for my future updates.
Aksana Kavaliova-Moussi
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