On April 11 2008, The PUSH project's Regional
Experts Workshop was
held at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design's Department
of Architecture building in central Jerusalem .
The purpose of the workshop was to present the PUSH
project's new publication Our Shared Heritage: An Anthology of
the Region's Shared Natural and Cultural
Heritage to the
regional experts that have been involved in PUSH since its
inception. The unique publication, released in a single
Arabic, Hebrew and English format, provides a comprehensive
review of the large variety of shared natural and cultural
heritage in Jordan, the Palestinian Territories and Israel.
Furthermore, PUSH presented the six pilot sites selected to
be the focus of PUSH activities during the coming year.
Throughout the workshop, PUSH teams engaged in a discussion
with the numerous Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian
experts, gathered from a wide range of professional fields,
concerning the PUSH project's upcoming publication of site
brochures and site manuals. Professor Turner presented the
six pilot sites that PUSH will focus on in the second half
of its project.
The six sites, selected collaboratively by the three teams,
include:
"The Great Cities" of
Sabastia, Pella and Beit She'an, which share a single common
narrative;.
and
Gesher, Artas and the Jordan River at Bakoura
site of which host multiple narratives of great importance
to the peoples of the region.
For a presentation of the
chosen sites click here
For more information on
the Regional Experts Meeting click
here.