{"id":172,"date":"2010-10-06T05:29:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T12:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freedimensional.org\/"},"modified":"2010-10-06T05:29:35","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T12:29:35","slug":"abazar-hamid","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fd.artistsafety.net\/about\/stakeholders\/abazar-hamid\/","title":{"rendered":"Abazar Hamid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freedimensional.org\/about\/case-studies\/abazar\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-81\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/freedimensional.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/abazar-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"abazar\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-81\" \/><\/a>We met Abazar Hamid, a peace singer from Darfur, when he was nominated to freeDimensional by FREEMUSE.  His recent album was censored and related threats drove him to move his family to Cairo. Cairo is a city with hundreds of thousands of Sudanese living in exile, so it was only natural for Abazar to want to perform. There was one small hitch: he needed his work permit before he could perform, and he needed the proceeds from performance before he could afford his work permit. With a small grant of 200 USD, freeDimensional was able to empower Abazar to do the work that he loves in a new setting, and the local art space was helpful in arranging his first performances.  Based on this experience, the idea for a <a href=\"http:\/\/freedimensional.org\/services\/distress-services\/creative-resistance-fund\/\">Creative Resistance Fund<\/a> started taking shape.<\/p>\n<iframe id=\"basic_facebook_social_plugins_likebutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Ffd.artistsafety.net%2Fabout%2Fstakeholders%2Fabazar-hamid%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=&amp;action=recommend&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:px; height:25px\"><\/iframe><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We met Abazar Hamid, a peace singer from Darfur, when he was nominated to freeDimensional by FREEMUSE. His recent album was censored and related threats drove him to move his family to Cairo. Cairo is a city with hundreds of thousands of Sudanese living in exile, so it was only natural for Abazar to want [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":63,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-172","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fd.artistsafety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fd.artistsafety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fd.artistsafety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fd.artistsafety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fd.artistsafety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fd.artistsafety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fd.artistsafety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fd.artistsafety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}