Amid a flurry of political engagements, Barack Obama, America’s first black president, had invited Israel’s first black beauty queen to dine with him!
21-year-old Yityish Titi Aynaw, an immigrant from Ethiopia who was an unknown face till about a month ago when she was crowned miss Israel, attended the state dinner hosted by Israeli President Shimon Peres for Obama on Thusday.
In an interview to a local TV channel, Titi described Obama, 51, as a role model for her and the chance to see him as a dream coming true.
‘It’s a huge honour for me to meet him. I know his life story and I know he is a strong man and he is a role model for me, and I am very very excited to meet him,’ she said.
Asked what is she going to talk about with the US President, it seems she would narrate her own life story and the story of her acceptance in the Israeli society.
‘I am going to tell Obama that I was born in Ethiopia and I came to Israel and the Israelis helped me feel at home and they helped me overcome. It was hard in the beginning to be here, and my friends in Israel helped me. They taught me Hebrew and they helped me with everything here, the culture and the Hebrew, everything,’ Titi said.
AUCTION OF MODERN INDIAN ART FETCHES OVER USD 6 MN
An auction of contemporary and modern Indian art in New York city by Sotheby’s has fetched USD 6.7 million. One painting by Vasudeo S Gaitonde was sold for USD 965,000 in the auction early this week. Gaitonde is one of India’s most important modern abstract painters.
This sale of works from Amrita Jhaveri was Sotheby’s first international evening sale of Indian art and the first single-owner sale in more than a decade. SH Raza’s Rajasthan I, fetched USD 809,000, while multiple bidders drove Francis Newton Souza’s The Crucifixion to achieve USD 557,000, nearly double its USD 350,000 high, Sotheby’s said.
21-year-old Yityish Titi Aynaw, an immigrant from Ethiopia who was an unknown face till about a month ago when she was crowned miss Israel, attended the state dinner hosted by Israeli President Shimon Peres for Obama on Thusday.
In an interview to a local TV channel, Titi described Obama, 51, as a role model for her and the chance to see him as a dream coming true.
‘It’s a huge honour for me to meet him. I know his life story and I know he is a strong man and he is a role model for me, and I am very very excited to meet him,’ she said.
Asked what is she going to talk about with the US President, it seems she would narrate her own life story and the story of her acceptance in the Israeli society.
‘I am going to tell Obama that I was born in Ethiopia and I came to Israel and the Israelis helped me feel at home and they helped me overcome. It was hard in the beginning to be here, and my friends in Israel helped me. They taught me Hebrew and they helped me with everything here, the culture and the Hebrew, everything,’ Titi said.
AUCTION OF MODERN INDIAN ART FETCHES OVER USD 6 MN
An auction of contemporary and modern Indian art in New York city by Sotheby’s has fetched USD 6.7 million. One painting by Vasudeo S Gaitonde was sold for USD 965,000 in the auction early this week. Gaitonde is one of India’s most important modern abstract painters.
This sale of works from Amrita Jhaveri was Sotheby’s first international evening sale of Indian art and the first single-owner sale in more than a decade. SH Raza’s Rajasthan I, fetched USD 809,000, while multiple bidders drove Francis Newton Souza’s The Crucifixion to achieve USD 557,000, nearly double its USD 350,000 high, Sotheby’s said.