Palestine Heritage Trail Al-Khalil wraps up the photo competition exhibitions of the students of Al-Najah National University and Bethlehem University successfully

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An opening ceremony of the Photo Competition Exhibition has taken place last Monday 1/12/2014 in Al-Najah National University-Nablus, and was organized by Palestine Heritage Trail Al-Khalil. The ceremony included speeches by George Saliba Rishmawi, the executive director of Palestine Heritage Trail, who in turn stressed on the importance of promoting community-based tourism in Palestine and the exploitation of marginalized rural areas that contain a varied topography in general. This is, in addition to a speech by Muhammad Karakra, one of the participants in the competition, and representatives from the World Bank – the donor of the Economic Development across the Fragile Communities project, from which we implemented this activity. Not to forget the participation of our international partner, the Abraham Path Initiative, and a number of university students and officials.

Right after that, the presence had a tour in the exhibition followed by the announcement of the winner of the first prize (Wala’ Barham), and the second and third prizes, in addition to the distribution of the certificates of participation.

This exhibition was opened for the second time at Bethlehem University on Thursday, 04/12/2014, in the presence of a number of participating students and other students from the university. This is, in addition to a number of journalists who covered the event, representatives from the World Bank, the Dean of the Student Affairs at Bethlehem University, Mr. Mahmoud Hammad, and Dr. Ahmed Al-rjob – a representative of the Ministry of Tourism to Palestine Heritage Trail Al-Khalil, in which the last two have pointed out the importance of the role of Palestine Heritage Trail to the revitalization of community tourism through the involvement of students in many activities and events along the path.

George Rishmawi has also pointed out the importance of signing of a cooperation agreement with Bethlehem University in order to organize educational, cultural and recreational trips for students on segments of the Abraham path, to which he noted that it belongs to all and is not restricted to Palestine Heritage Trail organization. He also expressed his interest in the establishment of the Palestine Heritage Trail Friends Club at Bethlehem University in order to organize trips continuously.

The exhibition was wrapped up with handing out the award to the winner of the first prize (Khayla’ Jum’aa), the second prize (Rula Abu Sara), and third prize.