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Among them is grandmother, Aida al-Horan, who has also been picking up soup.

She won a Grammy for her recording of Gershwin’s Porgy And Bess in 2020; and hit headlines in 2022 after pulling out of a performance at Italy’s Arena di Verona in protest at the venue’s use of blackface make-up in a production of Verdi’s Aida.

"Americans have seen with their own eyes how Donald Trump overturned Roe v Wade and paved the way for extreme Maga Republicans to restrict IVF and pass cruel abortion bans across the country, hurting women and families," Democratic National Committee Spokesperson Aida Ross said in a statement.

Aida Samani of the Stockholm-based Civil Rights Defenders, a politically independent human rights organization which had been present during the trial but was not a part of it, said the news was disappointing for the victims and the thousands of others affected by the attacks.

With better timing, the conference might have discovered the operatic elephant in the room is not from “Aida.”