Palestine News Network (PNN) : "Signs will bring you closer to Jerusalem: distance to Capital of Arab Culture marked in ceramic"

Signs will bring you closer to Jerusalem: distance to Capital of Arab Culture marked in ceramic

31.08.09 - 15:28

Jerusalem / PNN – All roads lead to Jerusalem, regardless of Israeli policy that blocks entry to the city for millions of Palestinians.

Signs will be distributed in all villages, towns and camps to bring residents closer to Jerusalem. Signs will mark the distance in kilometers as part of a project of the International Academy of Art and Jerusalem as Capital of Arab Culture events.

The project, “the Road to Jerusalem”, includes 80 ceramics and is part of efforts to bring the city closer to those who can no longer reach what is slated to be the capital of the Palestinian state.

Project coordinator Sabrin Isa explained that the project symbolizes the importance of Jerusalem through the piece of ceramic. “This is a sign or signal placed in any place of our choosing, reflecting the distance from this place several kilometers from Jerusalem. Putting this sign in any where is a show of the importance of Jerusalem as a religious and cultural and historical place. It is not only the capital of Palestine, but it belongs to the entire world and all the Arabs.”

The project was conceived by Khaled Hourani, artistic director of the International Academy of Arts.

Isa invited the Arab world to participate in the project as well, to show an expression of Jerusalem as being the Capital of Arab Culture, as this year’s series of events indicates.

The sign with a distance of 00 was placed on Thursday at the School of the Islamic Orphanage in Jerusalem. On Tuesday, the second sign will be placed at the tomb of the late President Yasser Arafat who was to be buried in Jerusalem, but was unable to as his burial was banned by the occupying administration. Instead, the late President is buried in Ramallah.

Banners will be distributed this week in all the cities, villages and camps of Palestine.

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