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Al-Kasaba Theatre

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “cinema in the city of ramallah in the west bank”. Today it says “theatre and a cinémathèque in the city of ramallah”.
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Al-Kasaba Theatre and Cinematheque Al-Kasaba Theatre and Cinematheque ( Arabic : القصبة مسرح وسينماتك ) is a cinema in the city of Ramallah , West Bank , Palestine . It was established in 1970 during Israeli occupation for playwrights and eventually began presenting films. Al-Kasaba is the only official multipurpose cinema in the Palestinian territories .

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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “cinema in the city of ramallah in the west bank”. Today it says “theatre and a cinémathèque in the city of ramallah”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

cinema in the city of ramallah in the west bank

Now

theatre and a cinémathèque in the city of ramallah

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