RAMALLAH, West Bank — Ghassan al-Rimawi, a 17-year-old student from the city of Ramallah, gave a violin performance at An-Najah National Univeristy’s Faculty of Fine Arts in Nablus on Oct. 7. and was selected by the supervisory committee tasked with selecting students for the first National School Orchestra.
Rimawi, a 12th-grader, will be among about 50 students from public and private schools who will form the orchestra, which is part of an initiative the Ministry of Education announced Sept. 23.