A 100 square meter embroidered mural of the names past and present Arab villages in the Land of Israel is being woven together by women from 55 different villages and towns throughout Jordan, according to a Jordan Times report. The mural project is sponsored in part by the Amman Chamber of Industry and several Jordanian professional associations. The sponsors wish to ?prove to ourselves first that Palestine ? all of it, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River ?? is for Arabs no matter what any peace treaty tells us,? said Mohammad Oran, President of the Jordan Medical Association.
The embroidered mural will consist of 1,064 patches, each with the name of an Arab village ?destroyed by the Zionist movement and the state of Israel,? the Jordan Times reports. Aida Dabbas, organizer of the project, told the Jordan Times that another objective of the mural is to ?protect the Palestinian heritage of embroidery and [to be] a tool linking every Arab Palestinian to their deep roots in Palestinian soil.? Furthermore, the message that the Jordanian women wish to convey to the residents of the Palestinian Authority is that ?we in Jordan will not cede an inch of Palestinian soil,? said Dabbas. ?[E]ven if we stayed away from our beloved land for another 100 years, we will return at the end,? said Um Ali, one of the embroiderers.
The completed mural is to be displayed in a public venue in Jordan, in Baghdad, as part of an exhibition in solidarity with the Iraqi people, in Beirut, in Cairo and in Damascus.