Global Politics  Tragedy Transforms Norway Arts Festival
Norway Mela Festival. (Photo: Clark Boyd)  Norway began burying
the victims of last Friday's twin attacks, as the official death
toll climbed to 77.  Player utilities  The man who confessed to
the killings had ranted against Muslim immigrants and a
multicultural Europe. His attack came just a week before the
capital Oslo was due to host its annual international arts and
culture festival.  This year's Mela Festival was supposed to
last four days. More than 200 Norwegian and international
artists were invited to attend. But in the wake of the terror
attacks, the festival was scaled back to just a day and a half.
It got under way on Friday evening, just a week after the
attacks.  Prableen Kaur, a young survivor of the Utoeya
shootings, spoke at the festival, and then musicians laid
flowers on the stage to remember the victims."¨  Khalid Salimi
is the artistic director of the Mela festival. He was born in
Pakistan, but has been living in Norway since 197